Head of Financial Control
- Employer
- Comic Relief
- Location
- London Vauxall
- Salary
- £57,500 - 62,500
- Closing date
- 24 Jul 2019
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- Function
- Finance & Legal
- Sector
- Social Care & Welfare
- Hours
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Comic Relief is one of the UK’s best loved brands and organiser of two of the country’s largest fundraising campaigns. Behind all the fun and excitement of Red Nose Day and Sport Relief is a serious business that is working to create a just world free from poverty.
The Financial Controller is responsible for overall financial governance within Comic Relief group including responsibility for all financial systems, investment and treasury management, legal compliance relating to financial matters and the production of financial information.
Key Accountabilities / Objectives
- To design and set a suitable financial control environment and processes for the organisation.
- Supervise the processing of all financial transactions, ensure the month end deadlines are met and that all bank and control account reconciliations have been completed.
- Maintain appropriate chart of accounts and support the development of finance systems and procedures across the organisation.
- Sign off weekly payment runs for grants and suppliers and ensure delegated authorities are followed.
- Manage annual external audit and statutory accounts preparation.
- Prepare a month cashflow and balance sheet for the organisation and presentation for committees.
- Prepare papers as required for the committees as required.
- Oversee Comic Relief’s investment portfolio, ensuring accurate recording of transactions and drafting of papers for the Investment Committee and Trustees meetings.
- Ensure appropriate treatment of transactions to be compliant with the Charity SORP.
- Manage cash holdings to maximise interest received.
- Work with the Digital and Innovation Team to ensure appropriate controls over the campaign income totals, public donations, corporate contributions, and tracking restricted and designated income.
- Manage both Charity Projects and sub companies tax status in line with regulations and provide tax and accounting advice to the wider organisation as required.
- Line manage of staff within the financial control team.
Essential Education and Skills
- Qualified accountant with relevant post qualified experience.
- Extensive experience of using finance systems – Great Plains would be desirable.
- Knowledge of Charities SORP, statutory accounting regulations, VAT (including exempt, partial exemptions and reverse VAT), PAYE and other payroll taxes, and Gift Aid.
- Extensive experience of working in a finance function and managing staff.
Key Competencies
- Confident decision maker, with high resilience that can lead and motivate teams and thrives in cross-functional and collaborative working.
- Effective relationship builder with strong emotional intelligence and political awareness to proactively challenge and persuade senior stakeholders and partners.
- Analytical thinker with exceptional communication skills that engage and inspire.
- Dynamic professional with a positive, solution orientated and fun approach.
If you have the necessary skills please apply online via the link.
Comic Relief positively welcomes, and seeks to ensure we achieve, diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality. We encourage applications from disabled people and we will guarantee a first stage interview to all disabled applicants who sufficiently demonstrate in their application how they meet the essential criteria for the job as outlined on the person specification of the job description.
Registered charity 326568
Company
Our mission, thanks to our comedy heritage and the fantastic relationship we enjoy with the BBC, is 'positive change through the power of entertainment'.
And our biggest tool, in trying to achieve these two goals, is the ability to inspire people across the whole country especially those who don’t normally do charity - to do charity.
As the world has changed and become more complex over the last two decades, so Comic Relief has had to adapt and change too but the fundamentals remain the same - a just world free from poverty. In trying to achieve that vision we make this promise to the people who make those efforts possible - our supporters:
"In order to run itself in a professional and effective way Comic Relief incurs necessary costs. Raising funds, making grants and organisational overheads cost real money.
Despite these costs, Comic Relief is still able to promise that for every pound the charity gets directly from the public, a pound goes to help transform the lives of people living with poverty and social injustice. If Sport Relief raises £20 million, Comic Relief will spend at least £20 million doing just that.
It can make this promise because its operating budget is covered in cash or in kind from all types of supporters like corporate sponsors and donors, suppliers, generous individuals and government (including Gift Aid) as well as from investment income and interest"
AND IF YOU'VE GOT A FEW MINUTES TO SPARE HERE'S THE MORE DETAILED ANSWER:
Comic Relief is obviously a charity - but it's also a business too.
The money we raise is allocated to a wide range of grants and social investments aimed at delivering real and long-lasting change to the poorest, most vulnerable people at home and across the world; as well as informing the public and young people in particular about global citizenship and the underlying causes of extreme poverty.
That money comes in from a number of different sources. Traditional charitable fundraising obviously plays a vital role. The public contribute to Comic Relief's annual campaigns by raising money through sponsorship and by making donations online, by post, by telephone and through major banks and building societies. This support, from almost the very day Comic Relief was formed, has been both humbling and inspirational.
On the business side of things, Comic Relief works with key corporate partners to produce products and promotions that are profitable. The clearest example of this is the Red Nose that is the emblem of Red Nose Day.
Where possible these products tie-in with the charity's commitment to delivering benefits to poor farmers and producers. The Red Nose Day 2007 T-shirt for instance was made with fair trade cotton from Mali, Cameroon and Senegal and there will be a fair trade Maraba Bourbon coffee grown in Rwanda, a country to which Comic Relief has had a clear commitment since the appalling genocide of 1994.
Another way Comic Relief raises funds is via the creativity made available to the charity. Comedians from time to time offer access to key brands like Little Britain for commercial exploitation. The charity also develops and owns key sub-brands like Robbie the Reindeer and Monkey, both of which deliver a revenue too.
- Website
- http://www.comicrelief.com/
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