Head of Finance

• Reports to: CEO
• Direct reports: Two Finance Officers
• Location: Fully remote, apart from 8 to 10 compulsory in-person meetings a year (Board meetings and staff away days)
• Status, hours: Permanent; full-time post, although 0.8FTE would be considered; flexible hours; required to attend two to four evening meetings a year.
• Salary: Grade A, which pays from £54,796, although a higher salary can be considered for an exceptional candidate

Role summary

This leadership role leads our finance function and is a member of the charity’s Executive Team. You ensure that all aspects of our finance function run smoothly, efficiently and accurately. You produce quarterly management accounts and year-end accounts and prepare for the (external) annual audit. You provide financial reports to relevant sub-committees of the Board of Trustees, and attend both the Finance, Audit, Investment and Risk (FAIR) sub-committee and the full Board of Trustees.

Please refer to the candidate pack for role and responsibilities of this post.

How to apply

If you meet most but not all of our essential criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway. And we encourage applications from people who have been disabled by society, are from minoritised groups, have personal experience of alcohol harm or have experienced any other forms of societal discrimination.

Any questions? If you would like an informal discussion about the role before applying, email our CEO [email protected]

Ready to apply?

• Use our online form to answer the shortlisting questions: this can be found within the candidate pack
• Upload your CV (max 3 pages, listing two referees) to the online form in MS Word, Google doc, or .pdf format (no image files please).

Important note: Applications are reviewed anonymously. Your responses to our shortlisting questions will be separated from your CV on receipt, and your CV will be anonymised. Therefore, please make sure that your answers to our shortlisting questions contain all the information needed to assess your application, and in particular please do not reference your CV in those answers: the shortlisting panel will not be able to identify which CV you mean!

We only accept applications on our own application form and will not accept applications in any other way. For example, cover letters emailed to us will be discarded. If your access requirements mean that you are unable to use the online version of the application form, please contact us at [email protected] and we will supply the form in another format.

We run a human process and we expect you to apply in your own words. AI-use will be identified and those applications flagged and discounted. Don’t undermine your application by using AI.

Timeline:

• Deadline for us to receive your application: strictly 9am, 23 November 2026. The online application form gives a date and time stamp to all applications. Late applications will be discarded. We never close the application window early.
• We aim to get back to you by: 25 November. All applicants will receive a response.
• Interviews and practical exercise: Tuesday 1 December. Please save the date! We do not expect a need for second interviews.
• Decisions: Wednesday 2 December.
• Proposed start date: as soon as possible after 15 Dec 2026, but we appreciate that candidates may have notice periods to serve.