Head of Finance

 About the role

Working closely with the Director of Finance and Governance, the Head of Finance will provide leadership of the charity's finance function, ensuring robust financial control, statutory compliance, excellent business partnering, accurate financial reporting and effective stewardship of the charity's resources.

Key responsibilities include:

• Act as the senior finance business partner to the Senior Leadership Teams, providing financial insight, analysis, challenge, and advice to support decision-making.
• Lead the finance function, ensuring accurate and timely financial management, robust financial controls, effective cashflow management, and high-quality financial reporting.
• Oversee statutory accounts and external audit, ensuring compliance with Charity SORP, accounting standards, Companies Act requirements, and other relevant financial regulations.
• Provide technical expertise and oversight for taxation, payroll, pensions, Gift Aid, VAT, and wider financial compliance, ensuring the charity maintains a strong control environment.
• Lead and develop the Finance and Governance Team, managing the Finance Manager and Board Secretary.
• Support organisational governance, ensuring compliance with statutory bodies, effective board support, maintenance of statutory registers, and liaison with professional advisers.
• Manage risk activities, maintaining the corporate risk register and compliance framework, supporting risk identification and mitigation, and providing assurance and reporting to senior leaders and trustees.

About you

As the ideal candidate, you will have/be:

• A qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIPFA, CIMA or equivalent) with a proven track record of leading and developing colleagues.
• A collaborative leader who builds strong relationships, communicates effectively with a range of stakeholders, and motivates others to achieve high standards.
• Service-minded, flexible and adaptable, with a proactive and solution-focused approach to challenges and continuous improvement.
• Experience in strategic financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and cashflow management.
• Experience of supporting non-finance professionals, providing insight, challenge and support.
• Sound experience of preparing statutory accounts.
• Strong knowledge of UK accounting standards, financial controls and regulatory compliance.
• Experience of identifying and advising on financial and organisational risk.
• Experience of driving continuous improvement in financial systems, processes and controls.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information.

Our employee benefits:

• Holiday entitlement of 30 days (rising to 32 days with service) plus Bank Holidays
• Group Personal Pension Scheme with an employer contribution of 5%
• Life assurance- death in service benefit
• Wellbeing support - employee assistance program, which provides a range of free services including counselling, financial and legal support.
• Unlimited access to a 24/7 online GP as well as a range of other health experts
• Healthcare Cash Plan – claim back the cost for appointments and treatment such as dental, optical or physio
• Cycle to work scheme
• Technology, mobile phone and will writing schemes 
• Discounted gym membership and shopping discounts
• Free secured parking.

This role is based at our Head Office in Sully, with hybrid working available. The successful candidate will be expected to work on site for a minimum of three days each week.

Ty Hafan’s ambition is that when a child’s life will be short, no family should have to live it on their own. Sadly, we know that thousands of families in Wales are struggling alone through the fear, exhaustion and uncertainty that comes with caring for a child whose life will be short. We believe that no family should have to live this on their own and we are determined to walk alongside every family through life, death and beyond.

At Tŷ Hafan we are experts at caring for children with life-shortening conditions and our services support families in our hospice, in community settings, local hospitals and in families’ homes. We understand that the needs of each child and their family are unique and we know that caring for a child with a life-shortening condition is often extremely demanding. Our aim is to make sure that no one doing this is alone. Our colleagues, volunteers and supporters are crucial in the delivery of our ambition – we know that everyone plays a huge part in making sure that no family faces their child’s short life alone.

Our Vision: A Wales where every child with a life-shortening condition lives a fulfilling life, supported with the compassion and specialist care they and their family need.

Our Purpose: No family should have to face the unimaginable loss of their child alone. With children and families at the heart of all we do, we provide free care and support in our hospice and in the community, offering a lifeline throughout the child’s short life, at end of life, through bereavement and beyond.​

Our Values: At Tŷ Hafan we make a difference by living our values:  Demonstrating Compassion, Providing Excellent Service, Working Together and Taking Ownership. 

Tips for candidates – all applications and interviews will be assessed using the person specification included within the job description. Please see attached candidate pack for further guidance. 

Our recruitment system will automatically time out after 120 minutes of inactivity. To ensure your application is submitted successfully, we recommend either saving your progress as you go or preparing your responses in a Word document and copying them into the application form. 

Please note this role is subject to the outcome of a basic DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, satisfactory references and pre-employment medical clearance. 

Tŷ Hafan is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences, including those from under‑represented groups. Recruitment decisions are made based on merit and aligned with our values. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know.

Please note: we may close the vacancy earlier should sufficient applications be received.

We are not seeking agency support for this role.

For any queries regarding the role, please email careers@tyhafan.org