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Director of Finance & Operations

Job description

Harris Hill is recruiting for a Director of Finance & Operations for this charity based in Hampshire.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, it's a hands-on, hybrid role, with a minimum of 2 days a week required at their Hampshire offices.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Manage all Finance, HR and Operations.

  • Manage a funding review, working on a comprehensive assessment and potential restructuring of how funding is allocated and managed, particularly within the specific sector.

  • Analysing existing funding mechanisms, identifying areas for improvement, and developing new strategies.

  • Lead on all governance and operations of the charity.

  • Identifying, recommending, and implementing systems and processes to ensure finance and operations are efficient, resilient, and robust and enable effective and meaningful reporting.

  • Working alongside the SLT around governance and annual finance planning, aligning to the wider business process and preparing reports in a timely manner for CEO and Board of Trustees

  • Ensuring effective monitoring and financial performance, producing, and organising monthly management accounts.

  • Ensuring accurate preparation of financial information to support fundraising and reports to funders.

  • In collaboration with the CEO and other SLT’s to lead on the development of the business model.

  • Maintain appropriate financial controls and accounting arrangement setting up appropriate systems and processes and providing assurance and management of risk for the CEO and Trustees

  • Working with the CEO, review and update the financial regulations, develop relevant policies, procedures and guidance.

  • Produce and analyse monthly management accounts reporting on performance, trends and risks including balance sheet, cashflow forecast, month-end closedown, manage payroll and perform month end reconciliations and corrections.

  • Run outsourced monthly payroll.