Senior Finance Business Manager
The Senior Finance Business Manager is a pivotal role 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.
Position: Senior Finance Business Manager (1918)
Location: Sidmouth
Hours: Full-time
Salary: £59,703 per annum
Contract: 18 month Fixed Term Contract
Closing date: Sunday 20th April 2025
The Donkey Sanctuary is an international animal welfare organisation, offering care and protection to donkeys worldwide. Our vision is a world where every donkey has a good quality of life, and our mission is to improve the lives of donkeys every day.
The post holder will be customer focussed 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 world-wide business.
About you:
1. Current fully qualified active member of a recognised professional accounting institute (ICAEW, ICAS, CIMA, ACCA) with extensive post qualification experience.
2. Experience in financial and management accounting for a medium to large international organisation, to include multi-currency group financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
3. Experience of successfully leading and motivating teams, managing workloads, prioritising and meeting deadlines including performance reviews, coaching and personal development planning.
4. Demonstrable experience of developing finance business partnering within an organisation.
5. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications including Excel (to include proven track record in using and building Excel models for financial analysis) and Word.
6. Ability to analyse and address complex issues including the need to deliver different support to different organisational areas.
7. Proven track record in financial risk management and evaluation of business cases and commercial proposals.
8. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to flex and adapt communication to suit a wide range of audiences.
About the role:
Your principal duties and responsibilities will include:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Build collaborative networks to actively champion financial stewardship amongst non-finance managers by developing support education and coaching.
4. Effectively recruit, manage, train and develop a team of finance business partner, and assistant business partner professionals.
5. Support the development of financial reporting to the organisation so that information flows from individual operational reports through to charity wide financial forecasting.
6. Act as the finance change manager for organisational strategic projects impacting the design of the financial systems/processes.
What we offer in return:
Based in Sidmouth, Devon – an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – this is a full-time, fixed-term contract starting as soon as possible until 30 April 2027, working 35 hours per week, 08.30-16.30, Monday-Friday.
The working pattern for this role will combine onsite and home working under our guiding principles for such roles.
Benefits:
* Competitive pension.
* Life assurance.
* 31 days holiday (including Bank holidays), rising to 34 with each full year of service.
* Wellbeing team.
* Recorded Pilates and Yoga classes.
* Long service awards.
* Healthshield plan.
* Free parking.
* Subsidised restaurant and shop.
The Donkey Sanctuary is a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people.
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.
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