Associate Director of Strategic Finance

Sellick Partnership; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 78,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Flexible/hybrid working

Generous pension (up to 7%)

Death in service benefit

Sick pay and enhanced parental leave

Discount platform

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Together Trust seeks an Associate Director of Strategic Finance to provide senior finance leadership in designing and delivering the organisation's long-term strategic plan. You will manage forecasting, budgeting, investment appraisal and performance reporting, while guiding a leadership team through complex financial decisions and major expansion projects.

You will lead on robust financial controls, collaborate with board members and external stakeholders, and drive efficiency through process

Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA).
• Extensive finance leadership experience advising senior board members on strategy, investments, risks and commercial environment.
• Proven internal and external stakeholder engagement skills translating finance information to non-finance leaders.
• Experience strengthening robust financial controls and balancing risks with commercial opportunity.
• Skilled in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting and strategic planning.
• Knowledge of process improvement, governance and audit assurance.
• Strong leadership including coaching, development, inclusion and team culture.
• Experience across sectors welcome; genuine commitment to Together Trust mission and people-centred approach.

Responsibilities

• Ultimate responsibility for financial insight, long-term strategic growth and resilience of the organisation.
• Provide strategic finance leadership to the wider leadership team and lead on long-term financial planning.
• Robust forecasting, budgeting and investment appraisal with MI updates and monitoring of major expansion projects.
• Scenario analysis, modelling for future projects to support decision making and performance targets.
• Ensure resources, assets and investments align to priorities and communicate risks.
• Build and sustain internal and external stakeholder relationships supporting strategic aims.
• Delivery on new initiatives within a digital, commercial and operational strategy.
• Support commercial negotiations with key analysis and due diligence.
• Lead cash management, working capital and liquidity improvements.
• Finance systems improvement and roadmap including Power BI and automated workflows.
• Review and strengthen internal controls over procurement, capex and governance.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Board communication

Education

ACA / ACCA / CIMA

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Salary: £86,330 with biennial increments

Overview of the Associate Director of Strategic Finance

Sellick Partnership is currently partnered with Together Trust, an expanding and forward thinking supported educational specialist organisation based in Greater Manchester. They are currently looking for a strategic thinking number one in Finance to work alongside a relatively newly created leadership team and embrace the positive entrepreneurial spirit and approach to change whilst genuinely driving elements of the group wide strategic plan. This is against a backdrop of keeping to the fundamentals of the organisation by maintaining the core values and people centric empathetic approach to all stakeholders.

Key responsibilities of the Associate Director of Strategic Finance

• Ultimate responsibility for key financial, commercial insight and future resilience relating to the long-term strategic growth and aims of the multi-faceted organisation.
• Provide strategic finance leadership for the wider leadership team, making recommendations and delivering key internal changes whilst leading on long-term financial planning and sustainability within the wider economic environment.
• Robust forecasting, budgeting and investment appraisal, providing MI updates and monitoring progress of on-going major expansion capital projects.
• Scenario analysis, modelling and information for future projects, to support decision making to assist delivery of on-going business performance targets.
• Ensure the resources, assets and investments are aligned to strategic and future priorities whilst communicating any project related risks.
• Build, develop and sustain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships supporting the strategic aims and performance targets whilst adhering to the wider organisation mission and values.
• Play an integral part and hands-on delivery on new initiatives within a new digital, commercial and operational strategy.
• Support commercial negotiations, providing key analysis and due diligence appraisal for potential key investments.
• Lead on robust measures relating to cash management improvement, working capital and liquidity.
• Integral part of finance systems improvement and roadmap, including wider use of Power BI and automated workflows.
• Review and strengthen internal finance controls encompassing procurement, capital expenditure and project governance.

Required experience/qualifications of the Associate Director of Strategic Finance

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA).
• Extensive finance leadership experience, advising senior board members, on financial strategy, investment decisions, analysis, risks and the general commercial environment.
• Proven internal and external stakeholder engagement skills, translating commercial and finance information to non-finance leaders.
• Experience of strengthening robust financial controls and numbers, to aid decisions whilst balancing risks with commercial opportunity and ensuring future resilience.
• Skilled in budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, strategic financial planning.
• Knowledge and experience of process improvement, financial control frameworks, governance and audit assurance.
• Strong leadership skills, including coaching, development, inclusion and team culture.
• We welcome applications from candidates across a range of sectors. Previous experience in the charity, public or education sectors is not essential. More important is a genuine commitment to the Together Trust mission and the ability to demonstrate empathy, compassion and a people-centred approach when working with colleagues, stakeholders and the communities they serve.

Benefits available

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising with longevity
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements
• Generous pension scheme (up to 7%) and death in service benefit
• Occupational sick pay, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave
• Reward and discount platform
• Employee assistance programme
• Annual flu vaccination and eye test allowance

A fantastic opportunity to join the organisation at an exciting junction where you will be part of the whole new values led and aligned senior management team. The role is fast-paced, commercially focussed and varied whilst driving the new strategic plan. An opportunity to advise on key commercial decisions whilst building the future resilience of this established organisation whilst making a huge difference to so many people across Greater Manchester.

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