An excellent and hands on business partnering opportunity to make your mark in shaping our strategy, advising our Trustee Board and, drive efficiencies
Time Commitment: Full time (potential for reduced hours, min 4 days a week)
About Us
Fields In Trust is the charity that protects the future of our parks, playgrounds, sports fields and green spaces.
This includes lobbying policymakers and helping to provide legal protection so that these spaces cannot be sold. It involves working side-by-side with landowners to create solutions to enhance spaces for the benefit of local people and the environment and crucially, providing ongoing stewardship for the 3,000 spaces protected in perpetuity over the last 100 years.
We are a small team of experts with a massive reach across the country and our impact is truly long-term.
It is a critical time for the charity as it focuses on the transformation needed to deliver its new strategy and refreshed mission to raise awareness of the value of green spaces, champion the best ways to protect them for the future and drive systemic change.
Aligned with this new chapter is the celebration of the charity’s centenary in 2025 and the opportunity to maximise the potential of this significant year.
The Role
We are a small, focused charity where you will provide financial advice and insight to the Chief Executive, Senior Management Team and Trustees, and where you will be at the heart of our financial and strategic decision-making as we move into the next phase of our strategic plans.
Essentially, you will be the Finance function, able to call on external support where needed, but tasked with building on the new systems (Xero) and automation to drive simplification and improved process effectiveness across finance and the charity’s business disciplines and operations
Responsibilities will range from the hands on/practical to the strategic; they will span all aspects of financial control, recording and reporting including some data entry/monitoring to developing robust financial plans, appraisals, reports and forecasts. You will be an active member of the management team contributing to all aspects of business management helping to embed a culture of business discipline and efficiencies.
Person Specification
- Professionally qualified (ACCA/CIMA) or, qualified by experience, with an in depth understanding of business/financial management and reporting in a not for profit setting.
- Knowledge of the financial requirements of Companies House, the Charity Commission, Inland Revenue and other key financial agencies.
- Solid experience with core finance operations; procure to pay, sales to collections, payroll, treasury, cash flow management, VAT and statutory reporting.
- Experienced in preparing financial plans and budgets against which performance can be assessed and in supporting business development and growth with costed and financially sustainable modelling
- Self-starter, able to work under own initiative and organise own time to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
- Flexible, able to operate independently while collaborating effectively with colleagues to support and influence non-financial colleagues them with practical financial insights and guidance.
- Highly numerate with advanced Excel skills. Experience with Xero (or similar cloud-based system) an advantage
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Commitment to maintaining confidentiality and integrity in financial matters.
Diversity and Inclusion
Fields in Trust is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity to ensure that we reflect the full breadth of the people and communities we support. It is important that the Fields in Trust are representative of these communities, and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.
Application Support
If you would like a call to discuss the role in more detail, please email Bryan at [email protected] to arrange a convenient time. Having a call of this kind will not influence the success or otherwise of your application.
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
Please download and read the Candidate Pack before making your application.
