About the role:

The Head of Finance role joins the team at a critical time at Kinship as the charity seeks to realise its growth ambitions within its 2023-2025 Strategy.

The role will provide effective stewardship and oversight of all finance functions at Kinship, with responsibility for financial controls and management accounting. This role is essential to the effective delivery of ‘business as usual’ as well as the delivery of new areas of operations as part the charity’s growth strategy.

As part of the senior management team at Kinship, the Head of Finance will collaborate and work closely at strategic levels and across the wider organisation to inform and deliver on our budget commitments and conditions of funding, as well as supporting fundraising and commissioning bids.

As well as producing monthly management accounts, the Head of Finance will be responsible for running both the annual budget and the year-end processes, preparing statutory accounts and ensuring that the organisation complies with its statutory obligations. They will attend the quarterly Finance Committee meetings of the Board of Trustees and will liaise with a range of stakeholders including auditors, bank and investment managers. They will be the ‘go to’ business partner at the charity, supported by the Director of Finance, People and Performance.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and will be able to organise conflicting priorities around the monthly management accounts cycle, while supporting the achievement of our strategic objectives. They will be flexible and adaptable in their approach to supporting transformational change in our processes and systems, as well as dealing with, and leading on, the day-to-day.

This is a broad and challenging role for a dynamic and systems-driven individual who has the capacity to be part of a dynamic and high-performing team.

• Location: London office-based (Vauxhall)

• Working hours: Part-time, 21 hours per week

• Salary: £55,000 per year (including London weighting) (pro rata)

• Benefits: 30 days' annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata) and pension

• Application deadline: 5pm on Friday 11 August

• 1st stage interviews: 17 August 2023

• 2nd stage interviews: 24 August 2023

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To apply

We will ask for your CV and to respond to four questions via the Applied platform. Please note that all answers will be viewed anonymously by reviewers and CVs will not be viewed until after this sift has happened. This is the first opportunity to demonstrate your experience and to stand out in the recruitment process. Reviewers will not see all your answers together and will be marking on the strength of the response to each question.