Head of Finance

An exciting opportunity for an experienced manager to lead our Finance Team, ensuring the organisation is financially sustainable and able to deliver its strategic objectives.

Permanent
  • Location:Bristol office, with hybrid working
  • Salary scale:£48,000–£53,000 per annum depending on experience

About the role

We are seeking a senior leader who will be accountable for all financial management and senior accounting operations in accordance with GAAP. This includes oversight of the production of monthly financial reports; leadership of the Finance Team; maintenance of the finance system, financial controls and budgets, and management of audits to help the organisation to deliver its strategic objectives.

Duties include:

  • Deliver periodic financial outputs such as weekly labour utilisation reports, monthly management accounts (including cashflow forecasting), monthly department meetings/reports and quarterly forecasts.
  • Ensure financial dashboards provide insightful financial management information with regards to revenue, spending trends, time and KPI analyses.
  • Support the development and implementation of the finance strategy in line with organisational goals.
  • Identify and monitor risks and issues, create solutions and escalate appropriate risks to the COO.

About you

We are looking for a positive ‘can do’ person with excellent analytical and business planning skills and relevant post-qualification experience of managing financial control systems, financial planning, treasury and budget management. Having work experience in an SME or not-for-profit would be an advantage to your application.

You must have up-to-date knowledge of professional accounting requirements with knowledge of FRS102 and solid knowledge of VAT. The successful candidate will need to be fully qualified with a recognised professional accounting qualification (CIMA, CIPFA, ACCA).

Early applications are highly encouraged; we will be reviewing submissions as they arrive, and interviews will be held periodically. As we are recruiting on a rolling basis, we reserve the right to end recruitment without notice

If you would like to contribute to increasing the impact of a dynamic organisation committed to ending poverty, we would love to hear from you. Please download and read the full recruitment pack and apply with your CV and cover letter via our online application system.