Head of Finance

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom The Chartered Institute for Library & Information Professionals (CILIP) Full time

Job description

The Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) is the UK’s library and information association. **We promote education, literacy and prosperity for all by raising standards in libraries, information and knowledge management.** We work to improve services, develop our members’ expertise and champion the sector. We are the only independent voice for the UK’s information profession. We are guided by our Royal Charter to develop and improve library and information services.

CILIP is a London-based charity with a friendly, hardworking team supporting our members in the UK and internationally. The role will oversee the Finance department and support the wider staff team with efficient financial processes and performance monitoring through the effective implementation of a ‘business partnering’ approach between finance and the wider organisation.

**The role will require you to**:

- Manage and lead the Finance team, including payroll, the production of management accounts, AP and AR, ensuring an engaged team delivering high quality outputs for the charity and trading subsidiary.
- To work with the Senior Leadership Team to ensure transparent operational accounting that supports strategy.
- Ensure those within the department have the skills, competencies, and values to provide a high level of service and ensure that the growth ambitions of the business are supported.
- Coordinate all insurance and financial functions for the business, including cash flow, budgeting, forecasting, monitoring, and annual reporting, whilst taking direction from the SMT and Director of Performance & Improvement, ensuring that all processes comply with statutory/business requirements.
- Ensure that required external reporting to bodies such as HMRC, the Charity Commission, Companies House, and ONS is carried out in an accurate and timely manner.
- Support the business in such a way that progress towards meeting the financial targets and KPIs set by the organisation on an annual basis can be reviewed and appropriate actions taken to ensure performance is optimised.
- Ensure that formal and informal reporting is carried out and is properly supported by the underlying financial records.
- Produce variance reporting and analysis, including meaningful narrative, to understand opportunities and risks within the business.
- Lead ongoing review of internal processes and systems to drive continuous improvement and efficiency into the operations of the business.
- To provide support, advice and guidance to the wider staff team and member networks to ensure effective and confident engagement with financial policies, processes, and systems.
- To work with the Digital Transformation team in the implementation of a new accounting system.
- To review management accounts, investigate variances and work with budget holders to identify efficiencies and improvements and to take remedial actions.
- To support budget holders with the implementation of commercially viable and/or high impact programmes/projects.
- To evaluate and provide financial information and reports for programmes/funded projects.
- To fully support and engage with CILIP’s vision, mission, values, and ‘We are CILIP’ strategy.

For more information on how we are embedding diversity at the heart of CILIP and its work visit our website.

Equal opportunities employer - Registered Charity No 313014

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