Finance Lead – Fundraising & Communications, Advocacy and Activism (CAA)

Royal Mencap Society; City Of London; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization in the UK seeks a Finance Lead for Fundraising & Communications. This role focuses on maximizing fundraising impact while ensuring compliance with charity regulations. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with experience in finance business partnering within charity environments, possessing strong analytical skills and the motivation to improve systems. The position allows for remote work, with occasional travel needed for meetings.

Benefits

32 days of paid holiday

Discounts at leading high-street retailers

Access to health cash plans

Interest-free loans

Qualifications

• Proven experience in finance business partnering, ideally within a charity or fundraising environment.
• Ability to interpret and communicate complex financial data.
• Motivation to improve systems and processes.

Responsibilities

• Create robust budgets and forecasts in partnership with directorate teams.
• Provide financial reports and analysis to help teams understand results.
• Support complex income forecasting and guide planning with scenario analysis.
• Manage and coach an FBP team member.

Skills

Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA or equivalent)

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management

Clear communication and influencing skills

Education

Finance-related professional qualification

Tools

Salesforce

Power BI

Job description

Finance Lead – Fundraising & Communications, Advocacy and Activism (CAA)

• Finance Lead – Fundraising & Communications, Advocacy and Activism (CAA)

Job Advert

Are you ready to use your financial expertise to drive fundraising growth and help shape a more inclusive future for people with learning disabilities?

Join Mencap as ourFinance Lead – Fundraising & Communications, Advocacy and Activism (CAA)and play a pivotal role in maximising the impact of our fundraising and advocacy work.

About the Role

As part of our collaborative Finance Business Partnering team, you’ll support fundraising, communications, advocacy, and activism across Mencap. You’ll provide clear financial advice, insightful analysis, and strong financial management to ensure our fundraising income is used effectively to benefit people with learning disabilities.

Over the next five years Mencap have big ambitions to significantly grow our fundraising income and increase our influencing and campaigning impact to ensure people with a learning disability can live life to the full.

This role isa full time permanent position.There is flexibility around where the role is based. We have large offices in London and Peterborough and smaller offices located throughout the UK. You will need to travel occasionally for meetings. However, this role will primarily be working remotely.

Key responsibilities include:

• Partnering with directorate teams to create robust budgets and forecasts, offering support and advice for realistic financial planning.
• Providing clear financial reports and analysis to help teams understand results, spot emerging issues, and make informed decisions.
• Supporting complex income forecasting (e.g. legacies), using scenario analysis to guide planning and assess risk.
• Delivering financial analysis and modelling to support investment decisions.
• Ensuring funding applications and management of restricted funds are accurate and compliant.
• Improving finance processes and reporting, including with our new Salesforce fundraising CRM system.
• Acting as key contact for external auditors and funders regarding fundraising financials.
• Ensuring accounting and financial compliance with Charity SORP and other relevant regulations.
• Managing and coaching an FBP team member, supporting their development.
  

What You’ll Bring

• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA or equivalent).
• Proven experience in finance business partnering, ideally within a charity or fundraising environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret and communicate complex financial data.
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management abilities.
• Clear communication and influencing skills, able to explain financial information to others.
• Motivation to improve systems and processes.
• Commitment to improving the lives of people with a learning disability.

Highly desirable:

• Knowledge of Charity SORP and charity finance regulations.
• Experience with restricted reserves and external reporting to funders.
• Familiarity with fundraising bids, donor engagement, and business development.
• Salesforce and/or Power BI experience.

If you are passionate about using your financial expertise to create real, positive change for people with learning disabilities, we want to hear from you!
Applications close on Monday, 3rd November.If you're interested in this position, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Interviews will begin once suitable candidates are identified, and the advert may close early.

Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated.

Our benefits package offers 32 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings.

For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document outlining all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team!

About Mencap

Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives.

We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers. We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in.

At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.

Belonging at Mencap is for everyone, every day, everywhere.

· Everyoneis expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.

·Every daywe grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes

·Everywherepeople will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long- term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies.

We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.