Domus are recruiting for a Director of Finance on behalf of an amazing charity based in Croydon, who provide support for women and girls who have experienced rape and/or childhood sexual abuse. With an ambitious and inspiring new vision, we are looking for a skilled and analytical Director of Finance to drive organisational financial strategy towards our time of significant change and growth. As part of the SLT, the Director of Finance will be responsible for the current and future financial management strategic leadership, working within a multi-disciplinary organisation to achieve deliverables for the people supported. Previous experience of effective senior leadership and senior management skills is key in leading and developing a high calibre finance function, ensuring financial growth and sustainability in the next 5 years. The position is offered as permanent, full-time opportunity, with three days in the office. The post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010. Key Responsibilities of a Director of Finance:
- Working with the Chief Executive Officer to develop a strategic financial framework to support the development of the Charity ensuring its financial sustainability and growth over the next 5 years.
- Leadership on all aspects of audit, working with the external auditors, including the implementation of findings and improvement areas.
- Take the strategic responsibility for the completion of year-end statutory financial accounts and annual reports, ensuring they represent a true and fair view, including responsibility for the submission to the Charity Commission and other regulatory authorities.
- Investigate and advise on highly complex financial issues, leading on corporate financial reporting, providing strategic financial and business planning advice, including but not limited to the management of Charity funds.
- Working with the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Programmes to strategically lead the contract negotiation process with future service providers for the Charity, ensuring all contract terms and standards are complied with.
- Working with the Chief Executive Officer to deliver the strategy as agreed by the Charity Board of Trustees, including the development of new income streams for the Charity, which will involve the development and management of new delivery mechanisms, such as subsidiary companies, ensuring financial compliance.
- Working with the Director of People to establish effective payroll, TOIL, expense and staff finance policies and processes.
Key requirements a Director of Finance must have:
- Experience at director/senior finance level in an equivalent size organisation including experience of balancing the need to be both strategic and hands on.
- Experience of providing high-level financial and business advice in a complex multi-disciplinary environment, including financial strategy development and implementation.
- Experience of successfully achieving objectives and negotiating solutions in pressurised situations where others have conflicting objectives, including the negotiation of complex contracts.
- Experience of producing and leading the completion of the statutory annual accounts and monthly management reports (including non-financial information).
- Experience of supporting major service change projects, including staff re-organisation, improvement in financial management processes and systems implementation.
- Significant experience of working within and leading teams within a multi-disciplinary setting.
- Experience of providing and receiving complex information and communicating this information in a cohesive manner that allows meaningful discussion and informed decision making.
Benefits
- Annual leave entitlement is 27 days a year plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata)
- Each year we gift our staff paid time off between Christmas Eve and New Year (with staff returning on the first working day of January)
- Flexible working practices
- NEST pension scheme; 3% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
- Benefits package including life assurance, healthcare plan, Employee Assistance Programme, and cycle to work scheme
If you are interested in the above position please apply, or for more information contact Michael White at Domus Recruitment. Don’t keep a good thing to yourself – Recommend a friend!! If you are not looking, then perhaps you know someone who is and we will reward you with our recommend a friend scheme - £300 pounds worth of high street shopping vouchers if we place them into work and we do not already have them on our database.
