Head of Finance - Barnsley, United Kingdom - FareShare Yorkshire

FareShare Yorkshire

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Barnsley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role purpose

FareShare Yorkshire is a Charity in its 25th year of operation which has grown significantly over the last 3 years.

FareShare Yorkshire operates from sites in Barnsley and Leeds delivering Surplus Food provision services, Employability Programmes and its own cookery programme - The FullCrumb Kitchen.

The Head of Finance role sits within the charity's Senior Management team and will provide vital accounting support to all areas of the Charity's work to achieve our vision:

"To improve the wellbeing of people in Yorkshire and see an end to Food Insecurity in our region."_

To do this, the Head of Finance will:

Assume management and accounting responsibility for the Charity's accounts, supporting the CEO, Treasurer and SMT with fundraising, governance and financial planning information.
Identify, recommend and implement financial processes to ensure all finance functions are efficient, resilient and robust.
Lead on the production of the annual accounts and audit.
Work with the CEO to produce budgets and forecasts, reporting on the charity's financial position at quarterly board meetings.
Support the charity's strategy planning, service delivery and income generation, ensuring effective processes are in place for resource allocation, cost control and performance monitoring.
Generate and manage our XERO finance system, including reporting, recording payments and expenses.
Ensure the Charity have robust internal financial controls, financial governance and risk management systems which are followed and regularly reviewed.

Skills Required:

Relevant Finance/Accounting qualification equal or equivalent to AAT qualification or higher
Time management skills essential, with the ability to prioritise and juggle tasks.
Possess a positive mindset with a cando attitude
Relevant experience and up to date qualifications and demonstrable continued professional development
Excellent working knowledge and experience of using XERO and administration software.
Confident to act on own initiative and be selfmotivated, collaborative, positive, tactful and patient
Experience in managing Charity accounts to audit level is desirable

Benefits

Company contributed pension scheme
25 days annual leave, pro rata
Employee Assistance Programme including free GP services
Full autonomy for you to be creative in your role
Management of your own time to work flexibly
Free training on courses / qualifications you feel will benefit you
Working for an Organisation that cares about the work they do and the communities they serve.