Job Description
In addition to providing the essential financial and accounting services expected of any Finance Director, your Key Tasks will include:
Strategic and Senior Management
- You must become an ambassador for organisational culture by role modelling company vison, behaviours, and values
- You will support the CE to set the strategic directives, business plans and budgets for submission to the Board, and attend board meetings to deal with any financial issues or questions
- Together with CE and the other members of the Senior Management Team (SMT), you will develop a programme of activities which aligns to funding requirements, required outputs and secured funding budgets.
- Ensure all legal obligations are met in accordance with the funding criteria of our stakeholders.
Finance responsibilities will include:
- Financial business planning and budget management
- Financial control and reporting
- Statutory reporting and governance
- Audit management, liaising with the external auditors, preparing year-end financial statements, schedules and notes.
- Advise on and manage contracting systems and processes
- Develop and maintain authorisation and procurement protocols
- Oversee payroll
- Oversee VAT returns and obligations
- Manage project, commission and small grant contracts, including client application process.
- Present NE Production Fund financial information at NEPF panel
- Interrogating north east spend cost reports
- Act as Company Secretary
Monitoring •
- Manage the organisations reporting of funder and other performance targets.
- Overseeing and implementing the internal organisational monitoring process – outputs and impacts
- Collate key economic impact on the regional sector for utilisation in internal and external reporting.
- Day to day management of the monitoring team.
- Contract and deliver the organisational programme evaluation
- Post audit analysis of specific projects
HR and Office Management
- Ensuring all NES’s HR practices meet legal and compliance standards and are delivered effectively across all teams and departments
- Manage the delivery of North East Screen’s annual staff appraisals, consolidating and planning training, facilitating recruitment and induction processes, and offering apprenticeship support.
- Advising managers and senior managers on HR processes where necessary.
- Manage North East Screen’s working environments including office spaces and equipment with responsibility for all Health and Safety.
- Working with our IT provider to ensure all IT equipment and infrastructure is up to date and fit for purpose.
