Senior Finance Manager

Hansel is seeking an experienced Senior Head of Finance & IT to lead their finance and IT teams, ensuring robust financial management and strategic insight across the organisation. This is a senior leadership role with responsibility for:
Overseeing day-to-day financial operations, reporting, and compliance Leading budgeting, forecasting, and strategic financial planning Driving system improvements, robust controls, and internal governance Managing, coaching, and developing a high-performing Finance/ITS team Providing financial leadership to the Board, Trustees, and senior leadership team This senior role will play a key role in Hansel’s finance/ITS functions, ensuring robust financial management, compliance and strategic financial planning.

This role is pivotal in supporting the organisations senior leadership team with high quality financial analysis and insight to support strategic decision-making and ensure both financial efficiency and optimal resource use across the organisation. The successful candidate will also oversee and facilitate the development of effective information and communication systems and mechanisms to enable accurate and relevant information to be shared with colleagues, customers and external agencies in a timely manner.

Experience required Fully qualified accountant (ICAS, ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CIPFA) with proven post qualified experience. Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development. Demonstrable, successful experience in a senior level role leading and managing a dedicated finance team. Leadership and management of a diverse team (across more than one professional discipline (Desirable) Third Sector experience, particularly in the field of Health and Social Care (Desirable)