Treasurer

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 5,000 - 15,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization focused on London's community needs seeks a Treasurer for its Trustee Board. This role involves ensuring financial governance, presenting budgets, and guiding strategic financial decisions. Ideal candidates will offer strong financial acumen, clear communication skills, and a commitment to charity values.

Qualifications

• Finance professional knowledge, strategic thinking, clear communicator.
• Willing to participate in financial activities, commitment to trustee role.

Responsibilities

• Oversee budgets, present financial reports to the Board.
• Ensure proper accounting records and financial policy implementation.
• Chair the Finance Committee and ensure financial oversight.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Clear communication

Good independent judgement

Commitment to equality and diversity

Understanding charity finance

Job description

London Plus is a unique organisation. We support and champion London’s charities and community groups to make London thriving, cohesive, and resilient.

Londoners are facing significant challenges, including the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, and statutory services are often unable to meet the needs of the most disadvantaged groups. This has put huge pressures on charities and community groups - London Plus helps to ensure that charities are supported and recognised, and are able to meet the opportunities and challenges of the future. Ultimately, London Plus helps the voluntary and community sector in London do more, and do better; using networks, connections, data and communications.

Set up in its current form in 2019, London Plus has successfully established itself as a key part of London’s voluntary and community sector infrastructure - connecting London’s charities, communities, policymakers, funders and businesses.

We are looking for a Treasurer to join our diverse and talented Trustee Board. Our Board meets four times a year, and the Treasurer also chairs a Finance Committee which meets twice a year.

It is an exciting time to join the Board as Treasurer: London Plus has a new CEO, and a number of exciting projects underway, including the London Communities Emergencies Partnership(LCEP), which coordinates the emergency response of the voluntary and community sector across London. London Plus is a trusted partner of organisations across all London’s 32 boroughs, as well as key London-level organisations including the Greater London Authority and London Councils. We are looking to the future and planning to grow our strategic impact and effectiveness on behalf of the sector.

London Plus has an annual budget of around £300,000, and staff team of seven. The team includes an Operations Manager who manages our finances day-to-day, with support from an external book-keeper, and with advice from our auditors.

The Treasurer’s role is to maintain financial health and effective governance of London Plus, including ensuring its financial viability and stability, ensuring that proper processes and procedures exist for assuring all financial records, decisions and delegations are maintained.

The main responsibilities and duties of the Treasurer include:

• Overseeing the development of budgets, providing advice and guidance to the Chief Executive and other staff, working with fellow trustees including the Chair and members of the Finance Committee.
• Presenting budgets, management accounts and annual financial statements to the Board, in line with the agreed strategy for the charity.
• Ensuring that proper accounting records are kept, and that financial resources are properly controlled with good processes, in line with company law and charity regulation.
• Ensuring that robust and comprehensive financial policies are in place and being implemented, and supporting the development of policies covering financial reserves.
• Liaising with and supporting the Chief Executive and Operations Manager on general financial activities of the charity, as needed and appropriate, including the annual audit.
• Support the Chair and Chief Executive in delivering the annual report and accounts, in the form required by relevant statutory bodies, for example, the Charity Commission and/or the Registrar of Companies.
• Chairing the Finance Committee and agreeing with the Chief Executive the agenda for meetings to provide appropriate oversight of the charity’s finances.
• Ensuring that the accounts are prepared and disclosed in the form required by relevant statutory bodies, for example, the Charity Commission and/or the Registrar of Companies.
• Keeping the board informed about its financial duties and responsibilities and liaising with the Chief Executive to develop the financial understanding of the Board of Trustees.

The Treasurer needs to have the following skills and qualities

• A Finance professional with a knowledge of charity finance being an advantage but not essential.
• A strategic thinker with an ability to balance risk and opportunity.
• Clear communicator with the ability to bring the financial information alive to non-finance specialists.
• Willing to play an active role in areas such as forecasting, setting budgets, liaising with auditors and to be available to staff for advice and enquiries on an ad hoc basis.
• A commitment to the organisation and a willingness to devote the necessary time and effort to fulfil the responsibilities of a trustee, including attendance at meetings
• Good, independent judgement
• An understanding and acceptance of the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of trusteeship.
• A commitment to promoting equality and diversity
• An understanding of the challenges which London and the voluntary and community sector are facing

To apply, please submit a CV and a short covering statement to [e-mail].

If you would like to have a conversation about the role, with either the Chair or CEO, please email [e-mail] and we can arrange this.