Finance Director
The Parks Trust
Date: 1 day ago
City: Milton Keynes, England
Contract type: Full time

We’re looking for a Finance Director to lead our financial strategy, support our charitable mission, and help shape the future of our organisation.
Key Objectives
- To support the Chief Executive and Board in delivering the Strategic Plan of the charity and its subsidiaries.
- To set and ensure the Trust follows a financial strategy that will ensure its long-term financial viability through: Taking initiatives that will contribute to commercial success - Delivering sound financial and commercial management - Ensuring there are strong financial controls and processes in place - Maintaining a strong reputation for being commercially astute, efficient, reliable, innovative and straightforward.
- To ensure the Trust has exemplary Finance, IT and Health and Safety functions that enable it to operate efficiently, effectively and safely.
- To work effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, championing the Trust’s ethos and values.
Essential
Qualified accountant with 5+ years senior financial leadership experience including:
- Investment experience including commercial property, listed securities and alternatives
- Demonstrable success in income generation, cost management and value-for-money projects
- Excellent financial modelling, analytical and decision-support skills
- Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams
A strong understanding of:
- Financial controls and risk management
- Investment management and performance monitoring
- Banking and financial instruments (e.g. loan documentation, covenants and hedging)
- Charity VAT rules and regulations
Desirable
- Experience of working in the charity and/or real estate sector
- Experience managing IT and Health & Safety functions
- Experience managing IT and Health & Safety functions · Charity finance and governance experience (Charity Commission and Companies House regulations)
- Has previously worked with commercial subsidiary companies within a group structure
Personal Attributes
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- A passion for creating great team dynamics and supporting others to achieve
- Commercially astute
- Skilled in communicating financial information to non-financial stakeholders
- Able to think both strategically and operationally
- Dynamic and driven to deliver success
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