Head of Finance

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom The College of Optometrists Full time

**Job Title**: Head of Finance

**Location**:London, WC2N 5NG

**Salary**: Salary starting on **£59,280**per annum depending on experience, plus competitive benefits. - **C2 - Head (Operational)**

**Job type**:Full Time, Permanent. Based at Craven Street with opportunity for hybrid working (see job profile for details) 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday**.**

The College of Optometrists is the professional body for optometry. It qualifies the profession and delivers the guidance and development to ensure optometrists provide the best possible care. We promote excellence through the College's affixes, by building the evidence base for optometry, and raising awareness of the profession with the public, commissioners, and healthcare professionals.

**The Role**:
We are looking for a Head of Finance who will join our established and busy Finance Team. This role will ensure the delivery of accurate, responsive, timely, and easily accessible statutory and management information to stakeholders. The Head of Finance is instrumental in ensuring compliance with all relevant legal, financial, and accounting obligations, considering best practices. In addition, this role will form and deliver a college-wide appreciation of the team's deliverables, contributing to the overall management of the College as an integral member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

**Reporting to the Director of Finance, IT and Facilities, the principal activities the role holder will be responsible for are (please see job profile for more detail)**:

- Leading the team in and take overall responsibility for the delivery of day to day accounting services, cash management, banking and VAT activities.
- Production of reports, including monthly Management Accounts, VAT returns, payroll returns, financial analysis, and the preparation of various financial documents and reports as needed.
- Management of the external audit process.
- Liaising with budget-holders, offering support in budget preparation and the mid-year review.
- Contributing to college-wide planning, budgeting, process improvement, and cost-effective management as a key member of the Senior Leadership Team.
- Manage the Finance Assistant and Finance Coordinator, developing (training and mentoring) the staff.
- Substantial experience in a Head of Finance role.
- Experience of bedding in change.
- Proficiency in preparing management accounts and other financial reports, ideally from a Sage 200C system.
- Familiarity with the legal and tax environment of membership charities. Ability to review and improve procedures and successfully implement the changes.
- Ability to collaborate with non-financial colleagues to generate budgets and subsequent budget-control.
- Ensuring compliance with legal obligations and internal policies and procedures.
- An aptitude for implementing value for money improvements at the corporate level.
- Effective communication of performance and development goals, along with the ability to delegate and empower team members.
In return, we offer a variety of benefits including a generous pension plan, life assurance and a health care cash plan. There is also potential to progress to a range maximum of £71,760 under our performance based/market driven incremental scheme.

**Application deadline**: 10 November at 5pm

**Interview date**: 20 November in person

**Second interview**: 27 November via Teams

**Equality and inclusion**:
**Additional Information**
- Typical working hours at the College are 9 am to 5 pm (7 hours, excluding lunch) working five days a week. We operate a flexible working window from 8 am to 6 pm where you can vary your start and end time (working a 7-hour day).
- We also offer hybrid working (a mixture of home and office working). Typically, College staff will work around 20 - 40% of their time at the workplace (whether this is the office at Craven St, meeting or event at another business-related site or organisation) per week.

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