Head of Finance

JR United Kingdom; Shrewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charitable organization is seeking a Head of Finance to oversee fiscal management and IT operations. This full-time role, based in Shrewsbury, involves providing strategic leadership, ensuring robust financial governance, and fostering relationships with key partners. The ideal candidate will have strong commercial acumen and a passion for supporting individuals with disabilities.

Benefits

Pension

Generous annual leave benefit

Qualifications

• Experience in fiscal leadership roles with a focus on compliance and governance.
• Ability to manage budgets, forecasting, and financial audits effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead the finance team and ensure financial governance.
• Manage budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders in Local Authorities.

Skills

Commercial financial acumen

Governance and financial compliance

Leadership

Education

Relevant financial qualification

Job description

Social network you want to login/join with:

HEAD OF FINANCE – Learning Disabilities Sector

Hybrid and Home working.

Must live within a reasonable commutable distance to our Head Office in Shrewsbury

Full-time post

Salary circa £55,000 plus pension and generous annual leave benefit

Bethphage is a charitable business, operating across the West Midlands providing support to people with disabilities and those who experience mental health problems

Bethphage has recently celebrated its thirtieth Birthday. Since establishment in 1994, Bethphage has grown from strength to strength, diversified and continues to grow. We operate as a commercial business, we are driven by our mission and live by our values, with the people we support at the heart of what we do. We have held the Investors in People Gold for twelve years.

Our person-centred approach also enables us to work strategically with commissioners to develop bespoke provision which achieves the desired outcome for people.

As a not-for-profit business, we reinvest our surpluses wisely and in addition to purchasing several homes for the people we support, our head office, we have recently purchased a farm with twelve acres in South Shropshire to develop our farm-based day opportunities, whilst providing longer term development opportunities over the next five to ten years.

The current incumbent has decided to retire (early) and has successfully made the job his own over the last five-years. Therefore, we are reluctantly seeking a replacement to join our executive management team.

The successful candidate will lead on all fiscal and IT issues and be accountable for these functions across Bethphage. 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 Bethphage'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 Bethphage's core business, and deliver positive outcomes.

A full job description and recruitment brochure will be emailed to all interested candidates by emailing

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.?

Interested parties must complete an application form and the deadline for submissions is the close of business on 8TH August 2025

Interviews will be held 8th & 19th August 2025

A full job description and recruitment brochure will be emailed to all interested candidates and can be requested by emailing

*Some of our roles require males, females, race and age specific employees only. Where this is indicated, this is a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with the Equality Act 2010