Interim Finance Manager (Charity Organisation)
Location: Exeter Area
Contract Duration: Up to 12 months
Daily Rate: Up to £300 per day
Hybrid working available – 2 days needed on site
Role Overview: Hays is collaborating with a charity organisation in the Exeter area who are seeking an interim Finance Manager. This role is pivotal role in leading the evolution of finance business partnering within the charity to ensure key financial objectives are achieved to deliver the organisation’s strategy and change agenda. The post holder will be customer-focused to deliver professional and timely financial support and be fully integrated with the core activities within the organisation, whilst challenging and holding budget managers to account.
Furthermore, the postholder will contribute to developing a culture of strong financial stewardship, promoting the need for economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in all aspects of the charity’s worldwide business. This is a high-profile role, and the postholder will be expected to build collaborative partnerships and maintain strong relationships with the Executive, Senior Managers, and their teams across the organisation and its subsidiaries.
About You:
* Current fully qualified active member of a recognised professional accounting institute (ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA, ACCA) with extensive post-qualification experience.
* Experience in financial and management accounting for a medium to large international organisation, including multi-currency group financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
* Experience of successfully leading and motivating teams, managing workloads, prioritising and meeting deadlines including performance reviews, coaching, and personal development planning.
* Demonstrable experience of developing finance business partnering within an organisation.
* Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel (proven track record in using and building Excel models for financial analysis) and Word.
* The ability to analyse and address complex issues, including the need to deliver different support to different organisational areas.
* Proven track record in financial risk management and evaluation of business cases and commercial proposals.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to flex and adapt communication to suit a wide range of audiences.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
* Lead the Finance Business Partners to discharge their responsibilities by providing high-quality financial information, expert advice, training, support, and challenge in respect of financial management reporting and risk mitigation, to ensure senior managers and budget holders are able to meet their key operational and strategic business objectives.
* Develop and evolve the charity’s business partner model to align to strategic changes in the way the charity operates, ensuring it is fit for purpose, efficient, and effective.
* Build collaborative networks to actively champion financial stewardship amongst non-finance managers by developing support education and coaching to operational managers and budget holders to understand business partnering and to facilitate the successful delivery within their areas of responsibility.
* Effectively recruit, manage, train, and develop a team of finance business partner and assistant business partner professionals, setting SMART objectives and managing performance including timely performance reviews; ensuring the team understand their contribution to the charity’s strategic objectives and their own roles and responsibilities.
* Support the development of financial reporting to the organisation so that information flows from individual operational reports through to charity-wide financial forecasting (including overseas subsidiaries), holding to account those responsible for delivery. The post holder will ensure a clear articulation of reported risks with mitigations.
* Act as the finance change manager for organisational strategic projects impacting the design of the financial systems/processes, actively championing and leading the delivery of benefits to achieve measurable improvements in operations.
If you are passionate about charities and finance, and have the skills and experience required for this role, please get in touch with Thomas today!