Head of Finance - Barnstaple, United Kingdom - Landmark Theatres

Description

About Landmark Theatres

Landmark Theatres is a portfolio of regional venues in North Devon and Peterborough receiving a wide variety of arts and cultural opportunities for local communities.

This includes major touring productions, high-profile live music acts, big-name stand-up comedy, dance, superb theatre and new writing. We also produce high-quality Musicals, Drama and Family productions including our annual family Pantomime in Peterborough.

Our venues consist of:

Queen Theatre, Barnstaple (650 seats), Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe (450 seats), the New Theatre Peterborough (1,100 seats) and the Key Theatre Peterborough (112 & 360 seats).

We are the largest new theatre entrant to Arts Council England's National Portfolio and are working with a number of high-quality partners such as Birmingham Royal Ballet, The National Theatre and Paines Plough.

We receive an annual grant of £1 million a year for the current three-year funding cycle from to to ensure that Landmark Theatres can deliver an ambitious artistic mission, driving quality work, inspiring and developing new talent for and with the audience we serve across North Devon and Peterborough.

This funding is a great vote of confidence in our potential to deliver to areas previously underinvested in culturally. We are now building a new producing theatre organisation outside London - for the first time in a generation.

The company has strong foundations in generating income as commercially driven businesses, driving trade and strong attendance. But newly found relationships with key stakeholders such ACE have broadened the companies' ambitions against their Let's Create Strategy.

We pride ourselves on an in-depth understanding of the locations in which we operate. Working in areas of lower cultural engagement across the UK. We are respectful and responsive to local priorities, deliver innovation and work in partnership to empower our communities.

We deliver a breadth of creative activities and ways in which our communities can engage whether that be as an audience member, participant, decision maker or through developing talent.

Landmark Theatres is a value-led organisation: innovate, include, collaborate, empower, sustain.

We are committed to being diverse and inclusive and to making our workforce representative of different backgrounds and experiences of the communities we serve.

LANDMARK THEATRES LTD
Head of Finance

Job description


Job Title:
Head of Finance


Responsible to:

CEO

Place of Work:
The main finance function Is based In Barnstaple. From time to time, visits to Peterborough will be needed. Hybrid working Is offered.

Hours of Work: 40 hours a week.


Salary: 50k


Contract:
Permanent Contract


Pension:
Company Pension Scheme available

Probation: 6 months and 3 months' notice

Start Date:
As soon as possible


OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE

To be responsible for all financial functions within Landmark Theatres, such as management accounts, annual accounts, project budgets, payroll, pensions, and reports.

The Head of Finance will report regularly to the
CEO and the Board on the company's financial position and its forecasts and projections.

Develop and maintain financial procedures and good governance to provide ongoing visibility and to ensure robust financial controls are in place, for a secure financial future.

Be an active member of the Senior Management Team, working strategically on the development of the organisation.

The company is in the process of transitioning to charitable status.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage effective accounting and bookkeeping systems and procedures.
• Line manage the finance manager.
• Prepare monthly cash flow and management reports to monitor and understand budget variances.
• Provide reports and liaise with funders of the organisation as and when required.
• Manage bank account reconciliations, transactions, and VAT reconciliations.
• Maintain and monitor internal financial control processes and systems.
• Establish and maintain financial records of income and expenditure across all budgets.
• Alongside the Production and Programme Manager, advise on production budgets drawing specifically on historical spend and data to ensure accurate budgeting, to collaboratively ensure project feasibility, set up, launch and running of key business productions.
• Prepare documents and schedules for annual accounts liaising with the accountants/auditors.
• Attend board meetings to lead on financial matters.
• Prepare risk assessments on key quarterly finance results and affect change accordingly.
• Analyse and develop a narrative around business growth, trajectory, and market share as part of regular reporting to the board.
• Liaise with HMRC as and when needed.
• Ensure all financial activity is in material compliance with all legislation, regulations, and Landmark Theatres policies.

PERSON SPECIFICATION
Essential

• A track record of providing senior ope