Finance Lead / Head of Finance

Job Description

Salary: c49-53k + 12% pension (dont adjust your eyes!), 35 days holiday (incl stats)Location: Wakefield area - commutable from Leeds, Bradford, Ossett, Dewsbury, Huddersfield, Halifax, Batley, Morley, Cleckheaton and Barnsley.Working for a supportive and encouraging CFO, who has your best wellbeing interests and career development needs at heart, makes all the difference. Which will make this CFO one of the best youll ever work for.How- For this Head of Finance role, he will create a succession plan with you where you can take over his role in the future.- He will encourage you to fulfil your potential by giving lots of autonomy and responsibility in this role to run and manage the finance team on a day-to-day basis- In every one-to-one conversation he ensures your mental and physical wellbeing is the first thing he asks about. Only then will he move onto talking about work.- He encourages an open door policy on any frustrations and challenges.- He will create a tailored development plan for you.The CFO has an illustrious career which, up to this role has been in the private sector. He feels the balance between working for an organisation with a strong sense of purpose and social impact while being able to have a strong influence as a finance functionfrom lean processing, strategic input/direction and also including looking at acquisitions makes this a really attractive role to consider.Better still the CFO is looking to put together a development plan that sees you taking over the role of CFO in the next few years.About the company:This not for profit organisation puts the finance function at the heart of everything, while also striving for better commercial/business decisions that can allow them to flourish and grown.Its little wonder that finance roles not only are enhancing the value and skillset of people working in the sector at the moment, as well as to attract people from outside of the sector too.Add to that a working environment that prioritises employee wellbeing, gives you a generous holiday allowance AND a beauty of a pension at 12% - theres so much to be attracted to this opportunity.As a qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA, CIPFA, AAT or equivalent) - you will bring a breadth and depth finance and accounting experience- so a good blend of financial reporting, management accounts, budgeting, group consolidations and business partneringwith local finance teams. If youve worked in the not for profit sector, be that Government funded, Education, Local Authority, NHS or Charity that would be a big plus.That said they may be open to having someone from the private sector whos ambitious and wants to make this role a success and contribute positively to the communities these schools are supporting.If youd like to get ahead and learn more about this role then get in touch using the form below!About us:We are Fide - an ethical agency and the only one of its kind that combines finance recruitment with mental health. Each time we recruit we set aside part of the recruitment fee to give you and the team /company we find you a job with your very own mentalhealth & well-being budget!As part of our social mission, we also divert revenues from each recruitment fee to fund, run and sustain F=@#! Mental Health CIC - set up to raise mental health awareness and promote positive well-being across the accounting/finance profession, financeteams and workplaces.Work with an agency that has your best interests at heart, as well as having a positive social/societal impact!

Keyskills :
BudgetingFinancial AccountingManagement Accounts