Head of Finance
Employer Location Birmingham, West Midlands (GB) Salary £70,000 - £75,000 (pro-rata if part time) + benefits Closing date 21 Apr 2025 View more categoriesView less categories Sector,, Salary band Contract type Hours, Where will they be working You need to or to save a job.
Job Details
Salary: £70,000 - £75,000 (pro-rata if part time)
Location: Birmingham Hippodrome; hybrid with a minimum of two days per week onsite
Employment Type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: 30 - hours per week ( - FTE)
Job Closing Date: 21/04/2025
Interview / Assessment Centre Date(s) w/c: 28/04/2025
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:
1. Fully qualified accountant(ACA/CIMA/ACCA/CIPFA) - this is a must-have
2. Technical knowledge of taxation and ability to research and implement new requirements.
3. Knowledge and experience of accounting and tax technical considerations in a not for profit setting.
4. Experience of reporting requirements of Charity Commission and Companies House.
5. Practical experience of producing VAT returns.
6. Experience of assessing employment or self-employment status.
7. Proficient in implementation and use of accounting software.
8. Able to assess and engineer systems of financial control to ensure an appropriate control environment.
9. Ability to explain complex financial concepts to a range of stakeholders.
10. Ability to adapt your management style to support team members with a wide range of experience levels.
11. Ability to build constructive working relationships and look for positive and flexible solutions to challenges, while achieving necessary compliance.
12. Experience of managing and developing a team.
13. Experience of producing information for senior leadership and presenting it in appropriate format for their needs.
14. Experience of producing statutory financial statements for a charity group.
Please visit our website (linked below) to download the candidate pack 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.
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.
Company
Birmingham Hippodrome is on a mission to provide that “goosebumps” feeling through memorable and extraordinary experiences. Our vision is clear, we want a “distinctive, world-class Birmingham cultural scene with the Hippodrome at its heart”. As one of the biggest providers of arts and culture in the city, the Hippodrome provides over a million people a year with those same goosebumps moments through our on and off stage programmes and performances.
Long recognised as one of the UK’s premier presenting theatres, the past five years have seen Birmingham Hippodrome develop into a creative producing organisation focused on access, diversity and inclusion, doubling our impact to match our annual audience of 550,000 with a further 450,000 people engaged via festivals, learning, participation and produced work. Recent partnerships have included working with China Plate on the new musical To The Streets!, the immersive performance Waswasa – Whispers in Prayer with Soul City Arts, our co production with Curve of the award-winning The Color Purple and our collaboration with Rambert on Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby .
With nine Associate Companies, the Hippodrome produces and commissions bold new work, telling fresh and engaging stories, reflecting the youth and diversity of the city and region. We have further enhanced our reputation as a leading provider for Festivals, engaging over 150,000 people through B-SIDE Hip-Hop Festival, co-producing the city’s Lunar New Year celebrations, and regularly collaborating with Bullring & Grand Central on events including Birmingham Weekender .
Our Hippodrome Education Network delivers creative activities in 44 partner schools every week – 80% of which are in the UK’s 10% most deprived communities – with over 40,000 young people taking part over 120,000 times each year. We are also the largest dance campus outside London, home to Birmingham Royal Ballet (led by Carlos Acosta), FABRIC, Dance Consortium, OneDanceUK and digital agency The Space.
Birmingham Hippodrome is an independent charity, run by a board of voluntary trustees with no regular revenue funding from public sources. We frequently invest in projects alongside Arts Council England and with Birmingham City Council. Generous support is received from the business community through sponsorship and other partnerships; from individuals through donations and memberships; and from grant-making trusts for special programming and infrastructure projects. As a major employer in the region, we play a leading role in the Southside Business Improvement District.
Our culture and values
Our Vision
“A distinctive, world-class Birmingham cultural scene with the Hippodrome at its heart”
Our Mission
“Providing that “goosebumps” feeling through memorable and extraordinary experiences”
Company info Website Telephone 01216893050 Location Birmingham Hippodrome
Hurst Street
Southside
Birmingham
West Midlands
B5 4TB
United Kingdom
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