Head of Finance

Overview

As Head of Finance, you will lead the charity’s finance function to support its new five-year strategy. You will drive strategic financial control, oversee governance, and deliver insightful commercial analysis for Trustees and senior stakeholders. You will champion data, digital, and AI-enabled ways of working, while guiding a finance team and partner network to improve decision-making. This role sits at the intersection of finance, technology, and strategy, offering high visibility and sector impact. You will shape financial processes and automation to enable sustainable delivery of the charity’s mission.

Pay / Benefits

• 10% employer pension contribution
• 30 days annual leave (+ bank holidays)
• private healthcare
• season ticket loan
• hybrid working (2 anchor days in office)
• flexible core hours

Responsibilities

• Strategic financial control, governance, reporting, audit, tax, and compliance with high-level advisory support to Trustees and Committee members
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning, partnering across the organisation to improve insight and decisions
• Champion adoption of AI, data analytics, and digital tools; manage systems including Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and Salesforce
• Lead and empower direct reports (Assistant Financial Controller and Finance Business Partner) to foster a collaborative, continuous-improvement culture

Key requirements

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, or equivalent) with post-qualification senior finance leadership experience
• Strong track record in financial planning, budgeting, team management, and senior stakeholder partnering
• Industry context: charity or not-for-profit sector experience (Charity SORP) is advantageous; strong commercial mindset acceptable

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• innovative mindset
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Salesforce
• data analytics

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