Finance Manager

Salary: £44,105

Hours: 30 hours, Monday - Friday

Location: Huddersfield

Responsible to: Finance & Corporate Services Director

Responsible for: Finance Team

Benefits: Entry into Peoples Pension, death in service benefit (3 x salary), out of pocket expenses, free on-site parking, free access to confidential and extensive wellbeing support, generous holiday entitlement (26 days plus bank holidays rising to 31 days after 5 years for a full time employee, pro rata for part time), free tea / coffee, sight tests and flu jabs and excellent learning and development opportunities.

In this key senior role at Forget Me Not Children's Hospice, where every penny helps us support children with life-shortening conditions and their families, you'll provide strategic and operational leadership of the finance function, ensuring strong financial stewardship, robust governance and clear insight to support organisational sustainability and impact.

Working closely with the finance & corporate services director, senior management team, trustee board and budget holders, you'll shape financial strategy, lead budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning, and provide constructive challenge that enables confident decision-making across the organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong senior management experience, excellent technical finance skills and a clear vision for continuous improvement. A key priority will be to maximise the potential of our new finance system, which went live on 1st April, embedding improved processes, better reporting, stronger data quality and greater efficiency across the finance function.

If you're looking for a strategic finance leadership role where you can strengthen systems, support great decision-making and see the value of your work every day, then we want to hear from you.

Interviews to take place Tuesday 20th October

For more information about Forget Me Not Children's Hospice, please see our recruitment pack 2026

Role Summary

The Head of Finance provides strategic and operational leadership for the organisation's finance function, ensuring accurate reporting, strong financial control, effective governance and clear financial insight to support sustainability, accountability and impact.

As a senior member of the management team, the role combines strategic financial leadership with hands‑on oversight of reporting, compliance, payroll, audit, budgeting, forecasting and team development. You will play a central role in improving financial systems and processes, including embedding and maximising the benefit of the new finance system implemented on 1st April.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership of the finance function, ensuring a high-quality, efficient, compliant and responsive service.
• Contribute as a senior management leader, bringing financial expertise, commercial awareness and constructive challenge to organisational decision-making.
• Lead, manage and develop the finance team, ensuring clear accountability, effective performance management, wellbeing and continuous improvement.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, cashflow management and long‑term financial planning, ensuring robust oversight of financial sustainability, risk and resource allocation.
• Provide clear, timely and insightful financial reporting and analysis to budget holders, senior leaders, the Senior Management Team, Trustee Board and relevant Sub Committees.
• Oversee accurate monthly management accounts, statutory reporting, year‑end accounts and preparation for external audit.
• Maintain and strengthen financial controls, governance frameworks, policies and procedures across the organisation and trading company.
• Ensure compliance with…