Finance Manager
We are currently recruiting for a new Finance Manager to join our small team and lead an excellent finance function that serves Groundwork Yorkshire and its subsidiaries. You will ensure we have robust financial management, planning, compliance and continued modernization. You will play a key role in coaching and supporting our programme managers to ensure they are able to achieve financial targets, and you will work closely with the Finance Director to drive profitability and efficiencies through continuous improvement and collaboration.
Closing Date: 5pm on Friday 31st January 2025
Salary: £40,000 – 43,000 pro rata
Hours of Work: Minimum 22.5 hours up to 37 per hours per week
Location: Flexible working, with main office base in Morley, Leeds, and occasional travel to the various trust offices across Yorkshire.
Line Manager: Finance Director
Responsible for: The Finance function for Groundwork Yorkshire and its trading subsidiaries. May also be responsible for the management of temporary staff, outside consultants, contractors, secondees and volunteers.
About us
Groundwork delivers practical action to create a fair and green future in which people, places and nature thrive. We work with local communities and businesses to build capacity to tackle hardship, achieve a just transition to net zero and help nature recover in a way that reduces inequality and leads to better work and healthier, happier lives by:
- Connecting people with each other, with opportunity and with nature;
- Building knowledge and confidence to that people feel more in control of their future;
- Delivering social, economic and environmental outcomes in an integrated way.
We’re seeking a new Finance Manager to lead an excellent finance function that serves Groundwork Yorkshire and its subsidiaries ensuring robust financial management, planning, compliance and continued modernization. You will play a key role in coaching and supporting our programme managers to ensure they are able to achieve financial targets, and you will work closely with the Finance Director to drive profitability and efficiencies through continuous improvement and collaboration.
View the complete candidate pack here.
If you’d like a discussion about this opportunity, please contact Adrian Curtis (Executive Director) or Sarah Munro (Director of Finance & Resources) on 0113 238 0601.
Want to apply?
Please send us your CV with a one page supporting statement that outlines the skills, knowledge, lived experience or passion that you would bring as our Finance Manager. All applications should be emailed to HR.Yorkshire@groundwork.org.uk
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