Description
Finance Director required to work for a Not-for-Profit organisation, based in Berkshire, on a 7month initial fixed contract.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Finance Director to make their mark by running a company-wide finance transformation programme, and gain exposure to a board of C-level/Senior Exec trustees.
Responsibilities/required experience
Finance:
- Lead the finance function, proactively providing sound financial and commercial advice to the CEO, the Board of Trustees and the SMT to enable the charity to improve its performance, reach and effectiveness
- Statutory accounts, Annual Returns, Annual Budget, Annual Departmental Budget, Quarterly management reports, Monthly financial variance reports, Monthly management accounts and subsidiary information, Trading Company accounts.
Change Management:
- Develop & lead the finance transformation programme.
- Defining a Finance systems strategy that aligns with business objectives and tracks growth.
- Lead the reduction and eventually eliminate manually intensive reporting efforts.
Stakeholder Management:
- Liaising with Chief Execs and Trustees on a daily basis.
Team Management:
- Provide leadership to the finance team, ensuring regular team meetings are held and communications within the team are effective.
- Influence and guide the team to adopt new ways of working and thinking, in-line with the change programme.
Property Management
- Experience negotiating with Property Developers on new build properties (apartment blocks)
Person Specification
Essential:
- Qualified Accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA CIPFA)
- Minimum of five years post qualifying experience in both accounting and management
- Substantial experience of management and at senior level
- Ability to balance the NFP considerations with commercial requirements
- Excellent analytical and interpretive ability
- Experience of developing, delivering and monitoring financial strategy
- Experience in the preparation, monitoring and reporting of budget and financial management information
- Awareness of company secretarial, legal and tax issues relating to companies and ideally charities
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present to a broad range of people internally and externally including non-financial specialists
- Excellent working knowledge of MS Outlook; Word; PowerPoint and Excel.
- Emotional Intelligence and the ability to inspire, collaborate and lead.
If you have the relevant experience and expertise, and wish to find out more, please forward an up-to-date CV to Adam Kaley
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