Job 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 leadership team, you will ensure professional control over all
financial, treasury, and associated risk management functions. You will play a
central role in driving improvements in financial strategy and governance, with
the opportunity to lead change projects and truly make a difference.
This role is pivotal in supporting our Executive Leadership
Team (ELT), Trustees and internal/external stakeholders by providing clear
guidance, timely financial insights and clear financial leadership. In the
absence of the Director of Finance (DoF), you will 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 this role will take place on the 24th or 25th of June 2025
Main duties of the job
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 You will bring to the role
- Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, 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
About us
Barnsley Hospice is a charity
that provides specialist palliative and end of life care to hundreds of local
people and those close to them each year. Our main priority is to achieve the
best possible quality of life for people living with a life- limiting illness,
whilst supporting those close to them during the period of illness and
bereavement. As a specialist care provider, the range of skills we offer
include, pain and symptom management, emotional support and end of life care.
The hospice currently employs about 100 people and has a team of volunteers,
based both at the hospice and within our Retail Hub.
Across both charitable and
commercial activities, the hospice employs over 100 people and has a team of
volunteers, working at the hospice and our Retail Hub.
We are committed to Equality,
Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all
sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black,
Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with
disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of
these groups at Barnsley Hospice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible For:
- Line management of the finance team, ensuring accurate control and compliance over the charity's operational finances, including but not limited to treasury systems/policies, finance systems/policies, payroll systems/policies, ensuring best practice delivery in financial control/processes, whilst providing timely and accurate reports to relevant stakeholders as required.
- Providing regular performance reports to ELT and Trustee Board/Sub committees, including regular representation on the Finance and Resources Committee.
- Driving improvement projects (especially finance system/process changes) to a conclusion and managing/leading multi-disciplinary project teams through to necessary post implementation review.
- Driving continuous improvement in accounting practices and embedding financial best practice.
- Ensuring that there are financial policies and procedures in place to cover all areas of the teams governance and compliance responsibilities.
- Delivery toward all known and agreed key finance targets/KPIs
Job Purpose:
- Ensure all financial, treasury and associated risk management processes and challenges are professionally controlled and managed and drive improvements in cash and financial management driving sustainable financial performance.
- In the absence of the Director of Finance (DoF) lead on all matters relating to financial performance and provide management information for the Executive Leadership Team, Board of Trustees and Budget Holders.
- Delivering at Executive Leadership Team capacity, helping guide strategic delivery; making leadership decisions and solving strategic problems.
- Acting as DoF when necessary (i.e. in the absence of DoF); provide necessary strategic guidance and sound technical solutions as required. The Financial Controller is a key Leadership position and in the absence of a DoF role is considered as the lead finance role of the future.
- Ensure that the charity's finances operate in line with SORP regulations and all relevant governance and compliance needs are met.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Key Duties and responsibilities
- Provide effective leadership to your team, holding regular meetings, setting clear objectives, managing and developing the team to deliver high performance levels.
- Provide effective leadership and professional opinion/guidance to support hospice senior management, ensuring the necessary financial needs of the business are being delivered and key leaders are supported to make decisions that shape and drive successful financial performance.
- Be an active leader in the furtherance of the aims of Barnsley Hospice to achieve sustainable financial performance, including reviewing opportunities and changes that will involve, but not limited to, investment appraisal of growth opportunities and benchmarking financial performance, including external meetings/working with senior management teams from other Hospices/relevant organisations.
- Working within tight and exacting deadlines, manage the Charity's operational finances ensuring that effective and appropriate processes, control, and financial risk management procedures are in place and being followed with the aim of achieving best practice in finance team/system/process delivery.
- Lead the process of hospice budget management, working closely with ELT and budget holders to accurately control and forecast income and expenditure backed by detailed analysis of key activities and variances.
- Working within strict control environment and a deadline driven finance team culture, lead and control the finance team with overall operational responsibilities for cashflow forecasting/treasury activities, management and financial accounting activities and payroll activities, ensuring effective processes are in place for resource allocation, cost control and performance monitoring across the hospice, most specifically in terms of the financial performance and sustainability of the hospice.
- Lead and co-ordinate all audit, accounting, payroll and taxation services to ensure the charity complies with all statutory and regulatory financial reporting needs, including but not limited to responsibility for accurate and timely HMRC/Audit submissions/Statutory Financial Accounts.
- Provide high quality and well considered financial guidance and insight to the ELT and budget holders and offer necessary financial solutions and actions in the strategic aims of financial sustainability
- Provide commercial/investment advice in support of revenue growth from the fundraising and retail teams and prepare necessary financial models/assumptions/forecasts for investment proposals and project grant applications.
- Create effective relationships with your colleagues, collaborating and working jointly to deliver growth, excellent levels of service and financial education.
General
- Be committed to the work of Barnsley Hospice and work in accordance with our policies and procedures.
- Be an ambassador for the organisation both internally and externally by living and promoting our values.
- To conduct such other duties as may be required from time to time.
- Willing and able to undertake work outside of normal office hours and to travel as required.
- The post holder will participate in the Senior On-Call Rota
Other Responsibilities
1.To undertake any other duties, commensurate with the role as required by the hospice.
2.To act as an ambassador of the hospice, maintaining honesty, integrity and trustworthiness at all times.
3.The post holder will be expected to maintain strict confidentiality at all times.
4.The post holder will ensure that they are aware of and apply health and safety and fire precautions.
5.The post holder will ensure that clinical risk management and safeguarding procedures and relevant good practice guidelines are followed at all times.
6.The post holder is to ensure data protection is maintained at all times.
7.The post holder will be flexible in terms of working hours in order to meet service needs.
8.The post holder will support the hospice as required, across the range of duties as appropriate within the grading of this post. In the context of rapid and ongoing change within the hospice, the above responsibilities represent the current priorities and requirements for the post. These priorities will develop and evolve over time. Any significant changes will be the subject of full communication and consultation with the post holder.
This job description is not an exhaustive list but it shows many of the aspects to this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Responsible For:
- Line management of the finance team, ensuring accurate control and compliance over the charity's operational finances, including but not limited to treasury systems/policies, finance systems/policies, payroll systems/policies, ensuring best practice delivery in financial control/processes, whilst providing timely and accurate reports to relevant stakeholders as required.
- Providing regular performance reports to ELT and Trustee Board/Sub committees, including regular representation on the Finance and Resources Committee.
- Driving improvement projects (especially finance system/process changes) to a conclusion and managing/leading multi-disciplinary project teams through to necessary post implementation review.
- Driving continuous improvement in accounting practices and embedding financial best practice.
- Ensuring that there are financial policies and procedures in place to cover all areas of the teams governance and compliance responsibilities.
- Delivery toward all known and agreed key finance targets/KPIs
Job Purpose:
- Ensure all financial, treasury and associated risk management processes and challenges are professionally controlled and managed and drive improvements in cash and financial management driving sustainable financial performance.
- In the absence of the Director of Finance (DoF) lead on all matters relating to financial performance and provide management information for the Executive Leadership Team, Board of Trustees and Budget Holders.
- Delivering at Executive Leadership Team capacity, helping guide strategic delivery; making leadership decisions and solving strategic problems.
- Acting as DoF when necessary (i.e. in the absence of DoF); provide necessary strategic guidance and sound technical solutions as required. The Financial Controller is a key Leadership position and in the absence of a DoF role is considered as the lead finance role of the future.
- Ensure that the charity's finances operate in line with SORP regulations and all relevant governance and compliance needs are met.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Key Duties and responsibilities
- Provide effective leadership to your team, holding regular meetings, setting clear objectives, managing and developing the team to deliver high performance levels.
- Provide effective leadership and professional opinion/guidance to support hospice senior management, ensuring the necessary financial needs of the business are being delivered and key leaders are supported to make decisions that shape and drive successful financial performance.
- Be an active leader in the furtherance of the aims of Barnsley Hospice to achieve sustainable financial performance, including reviewing opportunities and changes that will involve, but not limited to, investment appraisal of growth opportunities and benchmarking financial performance, including external meetings/working with senior management teams from other Hospices/relevant organisations.
- Working within tight and exacting deadlines, manage the Charity's operational finances ensuring that effective and appropriate processes, control, and financial risk management procedures are in place and being followed with the aim of achieving best practice in finance team/system/process delivery.
- Lead the process of hospice budget management, working closely with ELT and budget holders to accurately control and forecast income and expenditure backed by detailed analysis of key activities and variances.
- Working within strict control environment and a deadline driven finance team culture, lead and control the finance team with overall operational responsibilities for cashflow forecasting/treasury activities, management and financial accounting activities and payroll activities, ensuring effective processes are in place for resource allocation, cost control and performance monitoring across the hospice, most specifically in terms of the financial performance and sustainability of the hospice.
- Lead and co-ordinate all audit, accounting, payroll and taxation services to ensure the charity complies with all statutory and regulatory financial reporting needs, including but not limited to responsibility for accurate and timely HMRC/Audit submissions/Statutory Financial Accounts.
- Provide high quality and well considered financial guidance and insight to the ELT and budget holders and offer necessary financial solutions and actions in the strategic aims of financial sustainability
- Provide commercial/investment advice in support of revenue growth from the fundraising and retail teams and prepare necessary financial models/assumptions/forecasts for investment proposals and project grant applications.
- Create effective relationships with your colleagues, collaborating and working jointly to deliver growth, excellent levels of service and financial education.
General
- Be committed to the work of Barnsley Hospice and work in accordance with our policies and procedures.
- Be an ambassador for the organisation both internally and externally by living and promoting our values.
- To conduct such other duties as may be required from time to time.
- Willing and able to undertake work outside of normal office hours and to travel as required.
- The post holder will participate in the Senior On-Call Rota
Other Responsibilities
1.To undertake any other duties, commensurate with the role as required by the hospice.
2.To act as an ambassador of the hospice, maintaining honesty, integrity and trustworthiness at all times.
3.The post holder will be expected to maintain strict confidentiality at all times.
4.The post holder will ensure that they are aware of and apply health and safety and fire precautions.
5.The post holder will ensure that clinical risk management and safeguarding procedures and relevant good practice guidelines are followed at all times.
6.The post holder is to ensure data protection is maintained at all times.
7.The post holder will be flexible in terms of working hours in order to meet service needs.
8.The post holder will support the hospice as required, across the range of duties as appropriate within the grading of this post. In the context of rapid and ongoing change within the hospice, the above responsibilities represent the current priorities and requirements for the post. These priorities will develop and evolve over time. Any significant changes will be the subject of full communication and consultation with the post holder.
This job description is not an exhaustive list but it shows many of the aspects to this role.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 1.Minimum of 5 years experience in a financial/management accounting role including but not exclusively finance systems, banking/treasury/cashflow systems, budgetary control, business partnering, payroll systems.
- 2.Experience in wider operational control and delivery, including project management, risk management (insurance), IT/system development.
- 3.Experience in use of other business systems e.g. fundraising, retail/tills and HR systems.
- 4.Experience in engaging with internal and external stakeholders/auditors.
- 5.Setting up/developing financial accounting systems.
- 6.Leading and developing a team
- 7.Evidence of making a positive contribution to organisational change/development
Qualifications
Essential
- 1.ACCA or ACA qualified.
- 2.Degree or higher business qualification (e.g. sponsored management qualification) or qualified by experience
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 1.Minimum of 5 years experience in a financial/management accounting role including but not exclusively finance systems, banking/treasury/cashflow systems, budgetary control, business partnering, payroll systems.
- 2.Experience in wider operational control and delivery, including project management, risk management (insurance), IT/system development.
- 3.Experience in use of other business systems e.g. fundraising, retail/tills and HR systems.
- 4.Experience in engaging with internal and external stakeholders/auditors.
- 5.Setting up/developing financial accounting systems.
- 6.Leading and developing a team
- 7.Evidence of making a positive contribution to organisational change/development
Qualifications
Essential
- 1.ACCA or ACA qualified.
- 2.Degree or higher business qualification (e.g. sponsored management qualification) or qualified by experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
