Finance and Fundraising Manager - #2119748

Women's Inclusive Team (WIT)

Job Advert: Finance and Fundraising Manager

Senior Management Team appointment

Job title

Finance and Fundraising Manager

Salary

£35,000 - £45,500 full-time equivalent, pro rata (dependent on qualifications and experience).

Hours

14-21 hours per week; working pattern to be agreed.

Location

Mayfield House, Bethnal Green / hybrid working

Responsible to

Chief Executive Officer

Team

Senior Management Team

Line management

Finance Assistant and other finance support, as required

Contract

Permanent, subject to funding and successful probation

About Women's Inclusive Team

Women's Inclusive Team (WIT) is a community-led charity based in Tower Hamlets. We work alongside women, children, young people and families, particularly those from Black, Asian and minoritised communities, to improve wellbeing, increase opportunities and ensure that local people have a voice in the services and decisions that affect them.

Our work includes early years provision, health and wellbeing programmes, advice and guidance, mental health support, youth services and community development. We are looking for an experienced Finance and Fundraising Manager who can help us strengthen our financial sustainability and grow the resources needed to continue making a meaningful difference.

About the role

This is a senior, hands-on role combining charity finance leadership with fundraising and income development.

As a member of WIT's Senior Management Team, you will lead the organisation's day-to-day finance function, strengthen financial controls and provide clear, timely financial information to the CEO, trustees and senior managers.

You will also play a central role in growing and diversifying WIT's income. You will coordinate a clear, prioritised funding pipeline, work with project leads to identify opportunities early, and make a substantial contribution to strong applications, tenders, budgets and financial narratives.

You will not be expected to develop bids in isolation. You will work collaboratively with the CEO, Finance Sub-Committee, trustees, project leads, fundraising colleagues and external accountants and auditors, drawing on programme leads' knowledge, evidence and delivery experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead WIT's day-to-day finance function using QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel, ensuring that financial records are accurate, complete, reconciled and up to date.
• Produce monthly management accounts and rolling cash-flow forecasts, and support reforecasting and scenario planning so that the effect of funding decisions on services, staffing and sustainability is understood promptly.
• Strengthen WIT's internal financial controls and month-end processes, including bank reconciliations, journals, salary allocations, debtor monitoring, the treatment of unidentified receipts through a suspense or clearing account, and year-end preparation.
• Work with the CEO and fundraising colleagues to develop an ambitious but realistic income strategy and maintain one central funding pipeline that maps WIT's strategic programmes against funding needs, potential funders, expected deadlines, application status and the impact of any gaps.
• Coordinate funding opportunities received across WIT, involving the relevant project leads early so that strong evidence, outcomes and service knowledge inform each application.
• Lead or make a substantial contribution to high-quality funding applications, tenders, contracts and partnership bids, including realistic budgets, financial narratives and full-cost recovery calculations.
• Build relationships with trusts, foundations, commissioners and corporate partners, while helping WIT diversify restricted and unrestricted income and develop appropriate earned-income opportunities.
• Oversee the financial management of grants and contracts, including expenditure, payment schedules, funding conditions, reporting deadlines, audit trails and the early identification of underspends, overspends and financial risks.
• Provide clear financial advice to the CEO, trustees, budget holders and colleagues; line manage and support the Finance Assistant; and improve systems, workflows and accountability across the organisation.

The postholder will maintain senior oversight of funder requirements, financial performance and reporting information, while project leads will remain responsible for collecting and submitting evidence of programme delivery.

About you

We are looking for someone who can combine strategic thinking with a practical, hands-on approach.

You will ideally have:

• Strong experience in charity finance, including management accounts, rolling cash-flow forecasting, budgeting, reforecasting, restricted funds and financial controls.
• Practical experience of month-end processes, reconciliations, debtor management and resolving or correctly holding unidentified receipts.
• A successful track record in fundraising, particularly applications to trusts and foundations, tenders, commissioned contracts or partnership bids.
• Experience of building and managing a prioritised funding pipeline across several programmes, including tracking opportunities, deadlines, outcomes and funding gaps.
• Experience producing realistic funding budgets, financial narratives and full-cost recovery calculations.
• Confidence using QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel, with the ability to improve reporting tools and make financial information easier to use.
• A strong understanding of grant and contract management, funder reporting and audit requirements.
• The ability to explain complex financial and funding information clearly to trustees, managers and colleagues without a finance background.
• Strong organisational and collaborative leadership skills, including line management, managing competing priorities and meeting financial, reporting and funding deadlines.

You do not need to have held an identical combined role previously, but you must demonstrate strong charity finance expertise, credible fundraising and income-development experience, and a commitment to WIT's values, safeguarding responsibilities and equality, diversity and inclusion.

What you will receive: