Three Bridges Recruitment is delighted to be recruiting for a Head of Finance for a leading Scottish charity. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the future of a large organisation, driving financial strategy and transformation. If you're looking for a role where you can lead, influence, and make a real impact, this could be the perfect next step in your career.

📍 Location: Stirlingshire / Primarily remote Working
💷 Salary: £59,000 - £63,000
⏳ Hours: 37 per week

Why Join?

🔹 Lead & Influence – Take charge of a major finance function in a large, complex charity
🔹 Exciting Time to Join – Drive change through finance transformation & process   

     improvements
🔹 Flexibility & Work-Life Balance – Primarily remote working options available
🔹 Career Growth – Structured pay progression, mentorship & professional development
🔹 Excellent Benefits – 32+ days leave, up to 9% pension, enhanced sick pay, life

     assurance & more

The Role

As Head of Finance, you’ll:

✔️ Provide strategic financial leadership, ensuring robust financial control & reporting
✔️ Directly managing a senior team of 3 (overseeing a wider team of 14)
✔️ Oversee budgeting, forecasting, VAT & month-end processes
✔️ Drive finance transformation & system improvements
✔️ Embed a positive, high-performance culture within the team

You’ll Need:

✅   To be a fully qualified accountant 

✅ Leadership experience in a large, complex organisation
✅   Expertise in financial control, reporting & managing multi-cost centres
✅   Experience managing 3-5 people, with a mentoring & development mindset
✅   Strong problem-solving & process improvement skills
✅   Advanced Excel & financial software proficiency

🎯   Charity sector experience is a plus, but commercial backgrounds welcome

At Three Bridges Recruitment, two of our core values are “striving for brilliance” and “relatability”. We ensure an excellent experience for every applicant and want to match the right person to the role. If this opportunity interests you, please apply with your most up-to-date CV or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Been with NLB 7 years

7 members in the team

Finance and procurement system called Integra, used to be part of Capita

Had it about 12 years.

Not what the business needs going forward.

Tender exercise using govt framework.

Advanced financials – isle of mann govt recently implemented

Web expenses package

Contracted at end of Jan

Starting project plan

9 – 12 months – rework of the chartered accounts

Project support officer / coordinator – internal PM structure – OP37.  Within this risk register, take minutes, action logs, right people in right meetings at right time.

Desktop procedures – sit with subject matter expert and then reissue for approval.

All rounder in a project sense – ideally finance background.

Quite admin piece –

Can challenge the head of procurement, IT, etc.

35 – 38.5k

1^st person in – run through our structure, OP37, agreed with supplier their project plan. 

Project team - Them, Head of Proc, Head of IT, finance team, Darren –

220 members of staff, 70 on the ships, 75-80 in the head office.

PMO team – focussed on big strategic projects, e.g. new vessel in Spain.  2^nd ship.

MS built, word, excel.  Supplier might provide Gantt chart, likely Excel driven.

Warm place to work, output driven, tenacious, pusher.

Delayed supplier 2 weeks – start by end of April.  Go live when system is ready, wants to avoid year end next June.

Interview – conversational based

On leave next week – interviews first week back – avoid Mondays (Darren doesn’t work Mondays).

Management Accountant / Financial Accountant – backfill people as they are released from their BAU to support the project.

No support from the software people.  They are rolling it out themselves.

AR/AP, reconciliations, BS recs, budgeting, accruals, budgeting.   Reconciliations around ships, helicopters.

Proper Business Partners – sit on boards, budget holder meetings.

All-rounder – front end of processing invoices, to possibly reporting.

Summer start – getting docs sorted, back end of July/Aug.  Will have completed year end, reports to transport for transport in May, closed down accounts.  That person could pick up full cycle for full 9 to 12 months. 

BAU – also help with BS recs, closing old things down. 

3 accountants – senior, assistant and someone else.  Stacey, Kirsty, Yvonne.

Yvonne is the senior – IFRS16, new IFRS17, reporting to DfT, Treasury.

3 finance assistants – work part time – transactional

Collaborative, consulted on big decisions, support to make decisions on their own.

Family friendly, lots of flexibility.

Culture – directors regularly work in the office, very visible, do what they say.

Sports and social committee.

£3m on the new office refurb.

Three Bridges Recruitment is working with a leading client in the charity sector who are looking for an Accounts Administrator on a permanent basis to support day to day donation prosessing and front line customer service support.  This is an excellent opportunity for a Administrator or Accounts Assistant starting out in their career to develop their skills.

Why work here?

This is a fantastic role with benefits on offer of:

• Salary of £24,160 - £25,465 depending on experience
• 36 days annual leave  
• Hybrid working model
• Flexible start & finish times
• Informal working environment
• Pension

Job

The role of Accounts Administrator will give you the opportunity to be involved with the following:

• Assisting “clients” with processing payments and donations
• Weekly payment runs for approval by the Head of Finance
• Purchase ledger statement review and reconciliations, resolving queries
• Create and amend client database files
• Administative duties, typing out and sending letters to donors and stakeholders
• Financial transaction processing
• Assist with financial queries from wider team 
• Filing & scanning

You

As an Accounts Administrator you will be skilled &/or qualified in the following:

• Strong communication skills with a high degree of empathty are essential as you will be liaising with “clients” on a daily basis
• A desire to work in an accounts function is essential
• A basic knowledge of finance and/or administration or customer services will be strongly preferred
• A positive can do approach
• Strong attention to detail and time keeping skills
• Strong Microsoft Office experience

At Three Bridges Recruitment, two of our values are “striving for brilliance” and “relatability”.  We want every applicant to receive an excellent experience and ensure that this role is right for you.  Should this role be of interest please apply with your most up to date CV or contact us for a confidential discussion.