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HEAD OF FINANCE & IT — Hybrid role, currently required on-site 1-2 days per week.

Salary: circa £55,000 (possibility to increase slightly depending on experience) plus pension and generous annual leave benefit

We are working in partnership with a charitable business, operating across the West Midlands providing support to people with disabilities and those who experience mental health problems.

Responsibilities

• You will play a key part in ensuring we achieve our mission to be an excellent provider of services to people with disabilities.
• Maintain and develop robust financial systems that ensure the utmost standards of governance and financial compliance, delivering a clean audit annually.
• Manage the annual budgeting, forecasting, planning and treasury process ensuring the organisation remains of a sustainable footing.
• Support senior teams to create growth strategies and plans.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, especially those within commissioning roles within Local Authorities.
• Advise the CEO and Executive Management Team on all matters relating to financial performance.
• Lead, motivate and manage the finance team.
• To contribute to the management of all contracts and contract reviews.
• Finance lead for all new tenders and bids.
• To lead and manage Insurance negotiation and all claims activity.
• Responsible for the management of the external IT contract and organisational lead of information technology.
• Prepare annual accounts and manage the audit process, ensuring governance, the highest standards of best practice, and compliance.
• Control all financial and accountancy matters including month end reports, management accounts, cash flow management, statutory accounts, compliance, presentation of management information and KPIs.
• Support the business through change and growth periods, coordinating corporate finance, debt, taxation, equity, acquisitions, and VAT registration.
• To manage and coordinate the fiscal relationships between the holding company and subsidiaries.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial financial acumen with experience leading finance and IT in a charity or similar environment.
• Proven ability to lead a finance team and to work across IT and information systems within a charity context.
• Experience budgeting, forecasting, planning and treasury; ability to deliver a sustainable financial footing.
• Experience advising senior leadership and working with external stakeholders such as Local Authorities and commissioning bodies.
• Experience with external audit, governance and compliance; ability to prepare annual accounts and manage audits.
• Experience with contracts, tenders and bids; experience in insurance negotiation and claims management.
• Ability to manage and coordinate relationships between holding company and subsidiaries.

For more information or a confidential chat please contact John Lavictoire, Director at john@seymourjohn.com