Volunteer Chief Finance Officer - Kenyan Children's Charity

What will you be doing?

We are an established small UK charitable company with an annual turnover of about £100K, run by a team of 7 director trustees based in locations around the UK and Kenya. We operate within a Christian ethos and are organised to work remotely, usually meeting monthly via video conferencing.  Computer skills are essential. A hand over period with our retiring CFO will be available. As a small team we require the CFO to be a trustee and as we deal with vulnerable girls, the Charity Commission requires a DBS check of criminal records. The role is to:-

manage and report on our finances at board meetings work with our operations director to prepare a yearly summary budget and quarterly grant requests to our Kenyan sister charity prepare the financial sections of our annual report which is published via Companies House and the Charity Commission and liaise with our independent examiner review every two years - with all trustees - our concise financial policies document and check it against the Charity Commission’s financial checklist.  (Policy attached) provide receipts / annual summaries for tax purposes to donors contribute to the decisions of the trustees.

All our information is managed via Excel spreadsheets. We use Google Workspace services, particularly as a repository of all our information. We are starting the 2nd phase of a 4 phase capital project for the next three years to develop a community complex with an estimated total cost of £760K which will double our current capacity and provide long term benefits.

What are we looking for?

Volunteers are expect to have the following skills and attributes:-

Contribute in a committed multi-skilled team Financial  management and control Excel spreadsheet skills Basic financial data analysis and presentation Suggest financial strategy and governance when appropriate. Share in corporate governance Work remotely via email and video conferencing and using shared document space (Ideally Google Workspace). Desire to minister the love of Christ via practical work to vulnerable and needy children.

What difference will you make?

Your input will be pivotal to the operation of our charity, enabling it to meet its aims of providing hope to very young girls, traumatised by sexual abuse and frightened by the stigma of their pregnancy, anxious from being removed (by social services) from their community and becoming a new parent. With our support in a family style environment which shows compassion and love as well as  providing their medical care, education and vocational training, you will be part of the transformation of these young lives, whose emotional traumas are healed and their potential is realised. In addition, our community development project is aimed at providing a lasting legacy that continues these benefits for future generations over the next 50+ years. Your will share with every trustee on our team, the heart-warming satisfaction and encouragement from the positive impact that our work has on our girls and their children, which comes from providing  Christian values of inclusive love through providing a stable family environment that meets the physical, mental and spiritual needs of our desperate girls.