Volunteer Treasurer | Dorset Community Action
DORSET COMMUNITY ACTION
UK
We are looking for a Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees.
What difference will you make?
We're looking for a finance professional, with the right skills, experience and motivation, who'd love to give a little back to these communities by supporting one of Dorset's leading charities. Be part of a dynamic and well-respected charity championing and supporting the voluntary sector in Dorset. Help Dorset Community Action become more enterprising and market-driven to better achieve its charitable aims whilst maintaining its core values. Use your financial experience and professional skills to benefit Dorset's communities.
What are we looking for?
Essential Skills
* A strong understanding of financial accounting and reporting procedures
* Ability to communicate financial information to those who may have little or no financial background
* Experience in financial planning, which may include investment and business financing experience
* A range of experience that may include business, public sector and VCSE, e.g. achieved by a business person having volunteered for VCSE organisations
* Experience of board membership
Desirable Skills
* Understanding of charity sector governance and financial practices
* General VCSE sector knowledge and its challenges
* Interest in some or all of DCA's strategic aims: affordable housing, health & social care, low Carbon, community led economic development, employment and enterprise, VCSE sector and community infrastructure
What will you be doing?
* Support the Senior Management Team (SMT) and Trustees with the strategic financial planning of the organisation to ensure our ongoing financial viability
* Support the Finance Manager with overseeing the financial affairs of the organisation and ensure they are conducted within legal requirements, accounting conventions and good practice
* Ensure that the charity has satisfactory systems for holding in trust for beneficiaries; funding, properties and other assets, and ensure that funding is invested to the maximum benefit of the charity, within the constraints of the law and other policies set by the board
* Ensure that the charity's financial dealings are systematically accounted for, audited and publicly available
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