Finance Manager

Creative Scotland; Glasgow, Bothwell, Newton Mearns; Remote; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Outer Spaces, a dynamic charity, seeks a Finance Manager to oversee financial operations and support strategic planning. This permanent role involves managing cash flow and compliance, ensuring the charity runs efficiently while empowering artists through affordable studio provisions. The position offers full-time hours, working from home, with a competitive salary of £35,000 per annum.

Benefits

33 days of holidays including statutory holidays

Qualifications

• Experience managing cash flow and compliance in a charity context is preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work collaboratively with the Senior Leadership Team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective cash flow management and timely monthly management accounts.
• Oversee pledged income while maintaining high financial control standards.
• Support day-to-day operations and strategic planning.

Skills

Cash flow management

Financial control

Compliance

Job description

This is a new, hands-on finance role in a small, dynamic charity. Working closely with the Senior Leadership Team the Finance Manager supports both day-to-day operations and strategic planning.

About Us

Outer Spaces supports artists, professional development, artist-led activity, and studio provision by repurposing empty commercial properties. Our programming and partnerships focus on visual artists, using vacant and disused spaces as platforms for research, experimentation, and creative exchange.

Since launching in 2021, the response to our work—and to our growing portfolio of spaces—has been overwhelming. We have supported over 1,000 resident artists and groups across 139 spaces in 13 local authority areas. These spaces are currently located in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Inverness, Motherwell, Newton Mearns, and Paisley. They include former shops and offices in diverse settings—from busy city centres and commuter towns to post-industrial areas and communities heavily affected by austerity, Brexit, the pandemic, and now the cost-of-living crisis.

All our spaces are rent-free. By removing what is often an artist’s highest monthly cost, Outer Spaces plays a vital role in supporting creative practice, particularly now, as rising living costs put further pressure on already fragile incomes. Our goal is to ensure that artists, especially those at early stages of their careers, have access to affordable space, a peer network, and opportunities to collaborate, share work, and engage with the public.

Role

This is a new, hands-on finance role in a small, dynamic charity. The Finance Manager ensures effective cash flow management, timely monthly management accounts, and oversight of pledged income, while maintaining high standards of financial control and compliance. Working closely with the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) the Finance Manager supports both day-to-day operations and strategic planning.

Salary: £35,000 per annum
Location: Work from home
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Holidays: 33 days including statutory holidays
Contract: Permanent

For full job description and how to apply please visit: https://outerspaces.org/about/vacancies

The deadline is Monday 30 June 2025 at 09:00.