Head of Finance

Hybrid - currently required 1 day per week on site

Location: Shrewsbury

Salary: circa £55,000 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.

The successful candidate will lead on all fiscal and IT issues and be accountable for these functions across the charity. This role will demand a strong commercial financial acumen, as these are difficult times for our sector. We are operating in an environment of disappointing settlements from commissioners and proposed changes in legislation which will complicate the supply of staff. Fortunately, the organisation has been well and prudently managed so has strong foundations.

The key purpose of the role is to provide professional leadership to the charity’s fiscal agenda, ensuring their efficacy and fit with the organisation's values, ethos, culture and strategy. With strategic responsibility for finance and IT you will ensure that the organisation has highly effective well-implemented operational strategies, which align to the charity’s core business, and deliver positive outcomes.

A full job description and recruitment brochure will be emailed to all interested candidates, upon request.

Core Duties

• 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.?

Interviews will be held 8th & 19th August 2025

For more information or a confidential chat please contact John Lavictoire, Director