Treasurer

The Churn Project is looking for a new Treasurer/ Director/Company Secretary to join its Board of eight other Directors. The Churn employs 16 part time staff and one full time  ( 12 full time equivalent)  and in 2022/23 had an income of £483k and expenditure of £430K.

ROLE DESCRIPTION –

The Treasurer/Director takes the lead at board level on:

making sure the charity keeps proper accounts reviewing the charity’s financial performance drawing up or reviewing policies for finance and investment ensuring that the charity has robust and effective financial controls in place liaising with finance staff and with the charity’s independent auditor reporting on financial matters to the Board once a month plus at Board Meetings reporting on financial matters to the members at the Annual General meeting reporting as required to the Charity Commission and Companies House The Company Secretary role is generally to make sure the Churn complies with company law and complies with its purposes (set out in the objects stated in its Memorandum & Articles of Association) regarding governance standards.

On a day-to-day basis, this means:

Overseeing the running of the financial aspects of the charity and making sure that all the transactions are properly and accurately recorded in a timely manner making sure that the cash flow is sufficient to meet the Churn’s commitments/obligations helping to prepare the annual budget producing and commenting on regular financial reports to the Board of Trustees so that the trustees can see how well the charity is performing against its plans and budgets, and guiding the trustees in how to address issues when/if the charity’s finances face challenges overseeing the preparation and scrutiny of annual accounts placing surplus funds on fixed term deposits As a Director/Trustee the time commitment is about half a day a month, plus attendance at Board Meetings about 6 times a year, along with the AGM.