North Yorkshire Hospice Care Looking for Head of Finance at Harrogate, North Yorkshire (Hybrid) Full Time

To hold responsibility for the day-to-day financial management and finance team of North Yorkshire Hospice Care, providing an effective finance function to support the operation and development of the organisation’s activities.

Key Tasks

• To produce the monthly management accounts and narrative, monthly reporting, cash flow forecasts, annual budgets and forecasts and other financial management reports as required.

• To provide information to the organization and assist the Director in preparing budgets for use in business plans, projects and bids, and cost benefit analyses for activities.
• To oversee all balance sheet reconciliations and fixed asset register.
• To support the Director, by completing the preparation and technical deployment of the annual budgets, liaising with the relevant team members across the organization.
• To work closely with the auditors on an on-going basis, ensuring that the Statutory accounts are prepared for audit and provide support as required for the annual audit process and ensure that all statutory and regulatory requirements and submissions are met.
• To set and document clear financial standards and processes, ensuring their implementation on day-to-day financial operations and continually develop financial systems and processes to ensure financial practice is accurate, effective, and efficient. 
• To manage monthly payroll process for 250+ employees, including ensuring that all PAYE regulations are adhered to.
• To manage the pension provision for the organisation, ensuring that all statutory requirements are adhered to.
• To manage the VAT return process, ensuring that all statutory requirements are adhered to.
• To continually review and improve internal financial controls and develop and maintain a register of financial risks, undertaking regular reviews with Director and conduct audits based upon identified risks.
• To recruit, motivate, monitor, mentor and line manage the finance team (staff, students and volunteers) in a positive and empowering style as required to ensure that they contribute fully to the achievement of agreed Hospice strategy, conducting regular contact meetings, annual appraisals and to provide mentoring/training plans in line with identified needs.
• To work with volunteers according to the organizations policies and procedures, in an empowering style to ensure that volunteers can fully contribute to assisting staff to achieve NYHC strategies.
• To attend, as required, meetings to support the organisation in wider forums.
• To undertake projects as required by the Director.
• To embed the values of the organisation into your working practices evidencing this regularly and ensuring this remains a priority.

To carry out all duties in accordance with the law, the organisation philosophy, and the organisation policy on equality of opportunity and diversity and collective responsibility.

The above is indicative of the current responsibilities of the post which may change from time to time in consultation with the post holder in line with the service need.

Terms and Conditions

Responsible to:                                             Director (Strategy and Development) 

Responsible for:                                            Senior Finance Officers

                                                                      Finance Officer

Hours:                                                            37.5

Location:                                                        North Yorkshire Hospice Care sites, hybrid working allowed

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Qualified or nearly qualified CCAB.  Alternatively, extensive experience in charity accounting, equating to qualified by experience.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in management accounts in an SME, preferably a charity.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience of payroll management

Knowledge/skills

• Empowering line management style with ability to coach
• Excellent communicator
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent collaborative working skills
• Ability to analyse complex information
• Excellent skills in developing and managing income and cash-flow predictions
• Computer literate with advanced skills in excel spreadsheets
• Good technical skills with ability to develop existing and new systems to improve efficiencies and process
• Thorough understanding of data protection and IG
• Ability to work effectively with accounting software
• Ability to work effectively with standard banking procedures
• Good base understanding of VAT including ability to complete standard returns
• Understanding of regulatory and legal requirements of financial services in a charitable sector
• Understanding of financially based risk management and audit
• Project management skills
• Good understanding of third sector culture and how these impact on financial management.
• Good understanding of contracted and commissioned funding
• Good knowledge of resilience at an individual and organisational level

Attributes

• Motivated through positive change.
• Manages stressful situations with a calm and measured approach.
• Tact and diplomacy in dealing with a variety of situations.
• Clear grasp of collective responsibility

• Ability to work collaboratively.

• Demonstrate a commitment to North Yorkshire Hospice Care’s aims and objectives through its core values and behaviours.
• Full understanding of and strong commitment to confidentiality
• Flexible in attitude to work and undertaking of role.
• Promote and sustain a responsible attitude towards diversity and inclusion within North Yorkshire Hospice Care