Broster Buchanan
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LEEDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | GIVEBRADFORD
Head of Finance
£50,000-£55,000 FTE
28 hours a week, working pattern to be agreed
Leeds, with hybrid working
Permanent
Mondays in our Leeds office
the rest of your week worked flexibly
A senior finance role that not only gives a good work-life balance, but a compelling reason to care about the numbers.
Many Head of Finance roles demand five days and give you spreadsheets and deadlines. This one asks for the equivalent of four, sits you on our Senior Leadership Team, and puts your finance skills to work for real social purpose across hundreds of community organisations in Leeds and Bradford. If you’ve reached the point in your career where your time and making a positive difference to the world matter as much as your title, keep reading.
Who we are
We’re Leeds Community Foundation, and together with GiveBradford we’ve spent the last twenty years connecting people and businesses who want to give with the communities and causes that need it most. Since 2005 we’ve helped donors invest more than £65 million back into our region, funding the grassroots organisations that are, quite simply, the backbone of these two cities.
We do that across four related charities: Leeds Community Foundation itself, GiveBradford, the Old Fire Station community hub in Gipton, and the BG Campbell Trust Fund. Four sets of accounts, four boards, one finance team and a real need for someone to deliver order, insight and confidence across all of it.
The role
You’ll be our number one in finance, the person the Chief Executive, the trustees and the leadership team turn to for a clear, honest view of where we stand financially. It’s a genuine leadership role, but it’s also hands-on: with a full-time Finance Manager and Finance Officer to lead, you’ll know when to train and delegate and when to roll your sleeves up where it counts.
Day to day, and across the year, you’ll be the person who:
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- Leads budgeting, forecasting, cashflow and long-term financial planning across all four entities, and helps the leadership team make sound decisions with the full picture in front of them;
- Owns the quality and timeliness of our management accounts, statutory accounts and external audit, and the fund accounting that sits at the heart of what a community foundation does;
- Gives our boards, the finance and investment subcommittee and our Treasurer the reporting and assurance they need, and keeps our controls, compliance and risk management genuinely robust;
- Leads our investment and treasury arrangements, working with our investment managers, advisers and banks;
- Embraces technology to help us continually improve how we work, simplifying and automating alongside our Digital & Data Lead as part of a live transformation programme;
- Leads, supports and develops the finance team, building a collaborative and improvement-minded culture.
Who we’re hoping to meet
You’re a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with real depth in financial leadership. You’ll be someone who’s equally comfortable shaping strategy and getting into the detail when it’s needed. You know charity finance and fund accounting well, or you’re close enough to it that you can be credible in the sector from day one.
Just as importantly, you can turn complicated numbers into plain, useful advice for people who don’t live in finance, and you’ve the confidence to offer constructive challenge to senior colleagues and trustees when it matters.
If you’ve worked across multiple entities, overseen investments or treasury, or led a finance system improvement before, so much the better, but none of these is a dealbreaker. What is important is that you have the professional judgement to be our finance lead, and a genuine alignment with our values what we’re here to deliver across the community.
What’s in it for you
Beyond a role with real purpose we offer a package we’re proud of:
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- £50,000-£55,000 FTE which equates to £40,000 - £44,000 Pro Rata for the 28 hours per week
- Hybrid working, with Mondays in our central Leeds office and the rest from home or wherever you work best
- 25 days’ annual leave, rising with service, plus statutory days and your birthday off
- 5% employer pension contribution, alongside a 4% employee contribution
- Group life assurance paying twice your annual salary
- Two wellbeing days and 14 hours of volunteering time a year, taken when you need them
- Discretionary leave over Christmas and New Year, and a faith-based bank holiday swap scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme, including access to counselling and legal and financial advice
- A genuine commitment to your personal development and training
- Regular full-team away days
- An internal wellbeing initiative and access to mental health first aiders
How we work
Monday is our one fixed day together in the Leeds office, the rest of your hours are yours to shape around your life. We actively encourage our team, finance included, to spend time out in the community, at places like the Old Fire Station, seeing exactly where the money goes and why it matters.
Interested? Let’s talk
Broster Buchanan is managing this search on our behalf. For a confidential, no-obligation conversation before you decide whether to apply, get in touch with Lucy Rider at Broster Buchanan.
Lucy Rider, Senior Director, Broster Buchanan
Closing date: Sunday 27 September 2026. We’ll be reviewing applications as they come in, so you don’t need to leave it to the last minute if this feels like you. Leeds Community Foundation is committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and we’re happy to make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process — just let Lucy know.
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