Trustee - Finance expertise
Skills
Charitable TrustsFinanceFinancial AccountingFinancial Reporting
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Professionally qualified finance leader
- Substantial experience leading finance in a large and complex organisation
- Significant experience developing and delivering financial strategy and governance
- Strong understanding of financial planning budgeting and forecasting
- Ability to support strategic decision-making through financial oversight and insight
- Experience strengthening financial sustainability and diversifying income
- Track record of coaching senior finance professionals
- Ability to explain complex financial issues clearly to senior leaders and Boards
Nice to have
- Passionate about the mission
- Collaborative and inclusive leader
- Excellent listener
- Constructive challenger
- Integrity
- Authenticity
- Sound judgement
Day to day
- Provide strategic direction and effective governance as part of the Board of Trustees.
- Offer constructive challenge and financial insight to support sound decision-making and long-term planning.
- Help strengthen financial resilience sustainability and governance across a major UK charity.
Hiring process
- Provide a CV or equivalent biographical information
- Max three sides
- Submit a short covering letter explaining motivation suitability availability and any conflict of interest