Financial Controller
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,000 to £65,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 June 2025 |
| Location: | S75 2RL |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Barnsley Hospice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Join Us in Shaping the Future of Hospice Care
Barnsley Hospice is seeking a proactive and strategically minded Financial Controller to help shape and sustain our vital services. As a member of the wider leadership team, you'll ensure professional control over all financial, treasury, and associated risk management functions. You'll play a central role in driving improvements in cash flow, financial strategy, and governance.
This role is pivotal in supporting our Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Trustees and Budget Holders with clear and timely financial insights. In the absence of the Director of Finance (DoF), youll also step in to lead on all financial matters offering sound strategic guidance and technical oversight. This is a senior leadership position with scope to influence the charitys long-term sustainability and service delivery.
We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and are happy to explore part-time or job-share options where feasible. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds, especially those currently underrepresented in our workforce.
Please note Interviews for role will take place on the 24th or 25th of June 2025.
Key Responsibilities
Lead all financial operations, ensuring alignment with SORP and compliance with financial governance requirements
Provide strategic financial advice and decision support to the ELT and Board of Trustees
Act as deputy for the DoF, representing finance at senior leadership forums and working groups
Oversee treasury management, cash flow forecasting, and internal controls
Contribute to long-term financial planning and risk management
Help shape and deliver the finance function of the future through innovation, automation, and strategic insight
What Youll Bring
Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
Proven experience in financial leadership, ideally in a charity or complex organisation
Strong understanding of SORP and charity governance requirements
Confident communicator with the ability to influence at senior levels
A proactive, solutions-focused approach to strategic and operational finance
Barnsley Hospice is seeking a proactive and strategically minded Financial Controller to help shape and sustain our vital services. As a member of the wider leadership team, you'll ensure professional control over all financial, treasury, and associated risk management functions. You'll play a central role in driving improvements in cash flow, financial strategy, and governance.
This role is pivotal in supporting our Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Trustees and Budget Holders with clear and timely financial insights. In the absence of the Director of Finance (DoF), youll also step in to lead on all financial matters offering sound strategic guidance and technical oversight. This is a senior leadership position with scope to influence the charitys long-term sustainability and service delivery.
We welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and are happy to explore part-time or job-share options where feasible. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and warmly welcome applicants from all backgrounds, especially those currently underrepresented in our workforce.
Please note Interviews for role will take place on the 24th or 25th of June 2025.
Key Responsibilities
Lead all financial operations, ensuring alignment with SORP and compliance with financial governance requirements
Provide strategic financial advice and decision support to the ELT and Board of Trustees
Act as deputy for the DoF, representing finance at senior leadership forums and working groups
Oversee treasury management, cash flow forecasting, and internal controls
Contribute to long-term financial planning and risk management
Help shape and deliver the finance function of the future through innovation, automation, and strategic insight
What Youll Bring
Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
Proven experience in financial leadership, ideally in a charity or complex organisation
Strong understanding of SORP and charity governance requirements
Confident communicator with the ability to influence at senior levels
A proactive, solutions-focused approach to strategic and operational finance
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