Commercial Finance Manager Part-Time

Contract type: Permanent
Full-time
Sunday 12th May 2024
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We are looking forward to strengthening our leadership team with a forward-looking and experienced individual, who is also passionate about serving our community.
The Head of Finance role will be essential in enabling our financial strategy to become a reality through wise, risk-sensitive and entrepreneurial financial management.
This role is an exciting opportunity to work with our leadership team, our Trustees and our managers to develop and implement financial strategic plans, operational systems and to improve our financial governance overall.
YMCA Brighton is a registered charity. We provide supported accommodation to over 300 people across the city of Brighton alongside our EVOLVE Work and Learning Service.
We provide the home, the community and the services that equip people to overcome barriers and achieve their aims
Working together to create an inclusive community where everyone can belong, contribute and thrive
Community, Compassion and Empowerment
An encouraged culture to support staff health & well-being and a healthy work-life balance.
Annual Leave Entitlement of 30 days plus Bank Holidays.
Responsibilities of Head of Finance:
Financial Strategy
To develop and maintain a clear financial strategy in collaboration with the leadership team that is consistent with our 2024-2030 strategy.
To contribute to the overall strategic direction of the organisation from a financial perspective.
To ensure that the finances, financial controls and systems are developed and effectively managed and meet regulatory and audit standards.
To provide oversight of YMCA Brighton's plans to ensure alignment with long term financial sustainability objectives and support growth in income and cost management.
To lead and manage the development of annual financial plans, budgets, re-forecasting and multi-year modelling.
To advise the CEO and senior operational staff on the financial and commercial viability of existing/new services and related contractual arrangements together with Charity finance issues, including taxation and legal reporting issues.
To take lead responsibility for coordinating and supporting the work of the Finance Sub-Committee of the Trustee Board.
To ensure IT systems are suitable for financial planning, monitoring and reporting to meet operational and legal requirements.
Financial Management
To produce budgets, forecasts, business plans and management accounts/reports that are accurate, up-to-date, comprehensible and prepared and distributed on time.
To ensure efficient income and expenditure, cashflow and treasury management and reporting systems are in place and regularly reviewed.
To provide performance analysis and reporting, including management of all financial assumptions around rents, occupancy, voids and bad debt.
To lead on management of investments, tax, reserves policy, bank relationships and balance sheet management.
To continually develop and improve such systems to ensure timely and proactive measurement and interpretation of the financial monitoring of operations.
To manage relationships as appropriate with external stakeholders/advisors including bankers, debt providers, donors, auditors, tax advisors, regulators and Insurers.
To ensure that YMCA Brighton financial activities are subject to appropriate internal controls and audit.
To manage relationships with YMCA Brighton's auditors on financial matters as appropriate, particularly about their annual audit to ensure that it can be conducted efficiently and with a successful outcome.
To assist the CEO in advising the Board and its committees on all financial and other risks and to regularly report on risk management via the Risk register.
To ensure that rules and regulations affecting YMCA Brighton as a registered Charity are fully understood and complied with in regards to accountancy law and financial regulations.
To continuously review all financial risks and ensure that they are being managed and reported appropriately.
To ensure the proper recruitment and management of those staff reporting directly and indirectly in accordance with YMCA Brighton policies and procedures and good employment practices.
To carry out regular meetings, individually and as a team for staff that are line managed, including Annual appraisal and supporting learning and development opportunities.
To follow YMCA Brighton's policies and procedures at all times, including, but not only, those relating to EDI, Health and Safety, Safeguarding and GDPR and Data Governance. It is a condition of employment that you will not use or disclose any confidential information obtained by data protection legislation.
All staff have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of service users, volunteers, their families, and carers, you have a duty to ensure you are familiar with safeguarding policies, attend training for safeguarding and know who to contact if you have concerns about an adult or child's welfare.
YMCA Brighton has a duty of care to employees and will ensure that, as far as is reasonably practicable, adequate training, facilities and arrangements for risk avoidance are in place.
All employees are required to comply with relevant Health and Safety legislation and policies relating to Health & Safety and Risk Management.
To undertake and complete all required training both face-to-face and online through ME Learning.
Person Specification for Head of Finance
A qualified accountant with at least 5 years of post-qualified experience in a senior financial capacity.
Holds qualifications such as ACCA, CPFA, ACA, or CIMA.
Experience in managing a broad range of functions including finance, business processing, and administration.
Taxation and legal matters as they affect a Charity.
Experience of developing, leading and coordinating organisational finance strategy.
Producing budgets, cash flow, management accounts and quarterly forecasting.
Implementing IT systems for accounting packages, rental management, management reporting tools and designing and developing spreadsheets.
Use of Microsoft 365, including Teams
Leading year-end, interim and internal audit.
Experience in housing or related sector.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present complex financial information to people who do not have a financial background.
Personal Qualities:
Ability to communicate confidently and effectively, verbally and in writing.
We are an equal opportunities employer who constantly strive to be representative of the communities we serve. We value the unique perspectives and talents that people bring from a variety of cultural backgrounds and experiences, and we recognise the added value that diversity continually brings to the organisation.
To ensure our recruitment is fair, we welcome candidates to complete the Recruitment Diversity Monitoring Survey (it is optional)
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is part-time or term-time only.
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