Head of Finance

Brook Street; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A public sector recruitment agency seeks a skilled Head of Finance to support the CFO. Responsibilities include managing financial operations, compliance, and budget preparation. The ideal candidate will hold a professional accounting qualification and have senior management experience, particularly in financial oversight and treasury management. This role is pivotal to ensuring the financial health of the organization.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience at a senior manager level.
• Experience of working in an Academy and knowledge of charity law is desirable.
• Strong financial compliance and regulatory management skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare annual budget including estimates and forecasts.
• Provide monthly budget monitoring reports to stakeholders.
• Manage compliance and regularity procedures.
• Lead on audit preparation and liaise with auditors.
• Manage high value contracts and provide financial advice.

Skills

Professional accounting qualification

Team leadership

Financial operations oversight

Budget preparation and monitoring

Treasury management

Education

Membership of recognised professional body (ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA)

Job description

We are pleased to be supporting one of our public sector clients who are currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Finance to support the Chief Financial Officer in ensuring the long-term financial health by overseeing financial operations, managing compliance and regularity, managing risk, and providing financial guidance to budget holders.

As part of this, you will be active in annual budget preparation including provision of estimates, forecasting and projections; providing Budget monitoring reports for Trustees, SLT and budget holders monthly; and Treasury management including cash flow and investment activity. You will also line manage the Finance Manager who is responsible for a small team, which ensures the timely processing of all payments and checking of payroll

You will have a professional accounting qualification with membership of a recognised professional body, such as ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA or CIPFA. You will also have extensive experience at a senior manager level, including team leadership. Experience of working in an Academy and knowledge of charity law, and governance would be desirable

• Annual Budget preparation including provision of estimates, forecasting and projections
• Budget monitoring reports for Trustees, SLT and budget holders on a monthly basis
• Treasury management including cash flow and investment activity
• Manage compliance and regularity procedures and report exceptions to the CFO
• Oversight of the payroll records for budget monitoring and audit purposes
• Advising budget holders on planning and monitoring of their budgets including
• recommendations for action when necessary
• Providing management reports when requested
• Prepare annual accounts, including reconciliation of prepayments and accruals
• Lead on audit preparation and liaising with auditors
• Drafting updates to the Financial Procedures and Financial Regulations
• Managing VAT procedures, reconciliation, and submission of claims on a monthly basis.
• Maintaining the Academy's Fixed Asset Register
• Assisting with the tendering process by providing advice and guidance to relevant budget holders
• Management of high value contracts
• Acting as an approver to authorise the bank payments

Brook Street NMR is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.