About the role:
Birmingham Hippodrome has been entertaining audiences for over 125 years. The Finance Team is crucial to stewarding financial resources, meeting regulatory requirements, providing transactional services and delivering a range of reporting to enable the organisation in deliver its strategic aims.
The Head of Finance is responsible for leading the Finance Team to provide compliant and effective finance services including transactional processing, financial accounting, financial planning and control, initiatives to improve financial performance and delivery of management information which supports strategic and tactical decision making. The post holder will work particularly closely with the Financial Controller and Chief Operating Officer to plan and deliver co-ordinated activity which provides excellent support for the organisation.
The organisation has an ambitious strategy which means that it has grown its workforce and the range of activities it undertakes and has more to achieve. It is taking on more activity with different accounting implications than in the past, such as loans, commercial property management and producing its own work for the stage. Capital projects are underway or having feasibility tested and we are at a point of change in how we work with some partner organisations. This means that we plan to increase capacity for financial planning, balancing capital and revenue expenditure, planning for organisation-wide impacts of activity and supporting partnership working.
As the Head of Finance, you will be pivotal in leading and developing the department and its relationship with both internal and external stakeholders. You will lead on the provision of accounting and financial management services for three companies in the Hippodrome group and some partner organisations, supporting a growing range of activity which brings new technical and support requirements. You will be joining a team of skilled professionals working hard to ensure that Birmingham Hippodrome’s strategic plans are underpinned by effective financial services.
About you:
Ideally you'll have most of the following:
* Fully qualified accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA/CIPFA) - this is a must-have
* Technical knowledge of taxation and ability to research and implement new requirements.
* Knowledge and experience of accounting and tax technical considerations in a not for profit setting.
* Experience of reporting requirements of Charity Commission and Companies House.
* Practical experience of producing VAT returns.
* Experience of assessing employment or self-employment status.
* Proficient in implementation and use of accounting software.
* Able to assess and engineer systems of financial control to ensure an appropriate control environment.
* Ability to explain complex financial concepts to a range of stakeholders.
* Ability to adapt your management style to support team members with a wide range of experience levels.
* Ability to build constructive working relationships and look for positive and flexible solutions to challenges, while achieving necessary compliance.
* Experience of managing and developing a team.
* Experience of producing information for senior leadership and presenting it in appropriate format for their needs.
* Experience of producing statutory financial statements for a charity group.
Please download the candidate pack below for full details of the role. To apply, complete the application form and set out how your skills, experience and knowledge make you a suitable candidate.
Recognising the under-representation in our workforce of Black, Asian and ethnically diverse people, and those with disabilities, we particularly welcome applications from people with those identities and experiences.
We would be happy to have an informal chat with you about the role before you apply. Please contact the People team at recruitment@birminghamhippodrome.com if you would like us to set this up.
Our Benefits:
6 weeks holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays.
Contributory pension scheme.
Discounted public transport pass.
Discounted car parking.
Discounted gym membership.
Show ticket offers.
Personal Growth Fund.
Enhanced company sick pay.
Free life assurance.
Free Critical Health insurance.
Discounted private health cover.
Enhanced maternity/adoption/paternity pay.
Free flu jab.
Cycle to Work scheme.
Electric car scheme.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Please download the candidate pack below for full details of the role.