Head of Finance

Are you an ambitious finance professional looking to secure a role that offers an increase in responsibilities over time? Could you confidently run the day-to-day function of a finance team, whilst driving forward multi-faceted process improvement initiatives in line with strategic development? Keen to work for an ambitious organisation who have exciting growth plans that will strengthen their reach to some of the most vulnerable people across the country? If yes, this could be the role for you!

This growing, progressive health & social care charity is exclusively partnering with Robertson Bell in their search for a Head of Finance to join their dynamic team on a permanent basis. Reporting into the Director of Finance and Operations, you will provide leadership to a medium sized team, whilst having full management of all financial processes and standards across the group structure.

The key duties of this Head of Finance role are as follows:

• Full responsibility for the delivery of the annual budget, ensuring all assumptions are challenged around demand to make it as robust as possible.
• Provide leadership and guidance to the finance team, offering opportunities for upskilling and driving a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Have full accountability for ensuring the organisation’s services are running to their budgets, challenging variances and making recommendations to bring them back in line as needed.
• Hold accountability for the day-to-day running of the external audit and production of the statutory accounts.
• Be the go-to financial expert in the organisation for the development of funding bids.
• Have critical oversight of cash management and forecasting on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
• Take the lead in the production of the monthly delivery timetable, ensuring that the team are always delivering at 100%.

The organisation has ambitious plans for growth, development and diversification in the future, for which this role will have a key role in. By challenging the status quo and implementing new initiatives to enhance working capabilities and efficiencies, you will enable the finance team and the budget holders to deliver on their targets, in line with strategic growth. The Director of Finance and Operations is looking to invest in someone ambitious, with the view of providing exceptional on-the-job training to enable the post holder to assume additional responsibilities over time, and potentially grow into a more senior role!

The successful candidate will have:

• Achieved their full accountancy qualification.
• A background working in a finance role at a senior level of a medium sized organisation or larger.
• Experience working in an organisation with a similar business model (e.g. health or social care, social housing etc).
• Demonstrable experience of managing and driving performance across a team.
• Strong attention to detail, and the ability to remain calm under pressure.

This role will officially be based in their offices in London, although opportunities to work from home will be on offer for up to three days per week.

If you think this Head of Finance role might be of interest, please do not delay in applying, as initial screening interviews are being done on a rolling basis ahead of the closing date.