Closing Date: 2nd May 2025 Based: Swansea, Wales
We are looking for a finance professional with excellent financial management and analysis skills to join our welcoming Board of Trustees.
We are a volunteer-led registered charity, run and managed by our members, who include asylum seekers, refugees and other local people. We give a warm welcome to people seeking sanctuary in Swansea through our twice-weekly drop-ins, and offer practical support, educational and recreational opportunities.
We are looking for a finance professional who alongside our Treasurer and a fellow Finance Trustee to provide financial oversight and assist the strategic development of the charity.
Responsibilities
- Ensure that the charity’s finances are responsibly managed for the betterment of the charity’s work and for the beneficiaries it serves.
- Provide financial oversight.
- Assist the strategic development of the charity.
- Act as Deputy Treasurer and prepare to assume role of Treasurer later on in 2026.
- Administrate the charity’s bank account (i.e. access statements, co-authorise changes of signatories, but not authorise payments).
- Oversee the charity’s financial risk-management process.
- Ensure proper accounting records are kept, financial resources are controlled and economically spent in line with governance, legal and regulatory requirements; oversee independent examination of accounts and submission to the Charity Commission .
- Help develop and implement financial reserves policy, and cost management policy. Communicate financial information clearly to the Board of Trustees.
Contact details for enquiries and applications: trusteeworks@reachvolunteering.org.uk