Treasurer Trustee; Volunteer - Volunteer

Volunteer Treasurer Trustee for RSPCA Buckinghamshire South Branch

Provide strategic financial oversight, support governance, budgeting and long‑term planning, and help ensure financial sustainability. Ideal for a finance professional passionate about animal welfare.

As Treasurer Trustee, your contribution will have a direct and lasting impact on the future of our branch and the animals we support. By helping to ensure our finances remain strong, sustainable and well governed, you'll enable us to continue rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming vulnerable cats, rabbits and guinea pigs across South Buckinghamshire.

Your financial oversight will give the trustee board the confidence to make informed strategic decisions about how we use our resources, invest in new opportunities and respond to the growing demand for our services. You'll help us plan for the future, manage financial risk and ensure that every donation, grant and fundraising effort delivers the greatest possible benefit for local animals.

Like many charities, we are operating in an increasingly challenging financial environment, with rising costs and greater demand for support. Strong financial leadership is essential to maintaining our long‑term resilience and ensuring we can continue providing high‑quality care to animals in need. Your expertise will help us safeguard the branch's financial health while supporting sustainable growth and development.

Beyond the numbers, your role will help strengthen the governance of the branch and support a culture of transparency, accountability and good decision‑making. Working alongside a passionate team of volunteer trustees and staff, you'll help shape the future direction of the charity and ensure we remain well placed to meet both today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

Ultimately, your contribution will make it possible for more animals to receive the care, treatment and second chances they deserve. Every sound financial decision helps protect the future of our services, supports our volunteers and enables us to continue making a meaningful difference to animal welfare in our local community.

This is an opportunity to use your financial expertise in a rewarding and purposeful way, knowing that your contribution will have a tangible impact on both the charity's future and the lives of countless animals.

We're looking for someone who can bring sound financial knowledge, strategic thinking and a collaborative approach to our trustee board. As Treasurer Trustee, you'll use your expertise to help ensure the branch remains financially sustainable and well governed, while supporting our mission to improve the lives of vulnerable animals.

Our ideal candidate will have experience in finance, accounting, financial management or financial governance, gained through either their professional career or voluntary roles. You might be a qualified accountant, finance manager, financial controller, auditor, chief financial officer, banking professional or someone with equivalent financial leadership experience. We also welcome applications from retired finance professionals who are keen to use their skills to give back to the community.

• Experience of interpreting financial information, budgets and management accounts.
• The ability to provide strategic financial oversight and help guide long‑term financial planning.
• Good understanding of financial controls, governance and risk management.
• The confidence to ask constructive questions and provide appropriate challenge while working collaboratively with fellow trustees.
• The ability to communicate financial information clearly and effectively to colleagues with a range of financial knowledge.
• Good judgement, integrity and a commitment to supporting sound decision‑making.

Previous experience as a charity trustee is not essential, and neither is previous charity finance experience. We will provide an induction, training and ongoing support to help you succeed in the role.

A recognised financial qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA or equivalent, would be…