Purpose of the role
- Monitor the financial standing of the organisation and report to the Committee regarding cash-flow forecasting, income streams, outgoing expenses.
- Report financial health to the Committee at regular intervals.
- Ensure annual accounts are submitted to all relevant regulators in a timely fashion.
Duties and responsibilities
- Ensure a high standard of management accounting is maintained.
- Oversee finance to ensure accounts are accurate and produced regularly.
- Ensure policies and procedures are in place and monitored. Act as a signatory on cheques and bank payments.
- Guide and advise fellow committee members to formally approve the annual report and accounts.
- Explain technicalities of accounts in plain language which is fully understood by the other Directors.
- Keep the committee informed of free reserves position regularly and advise to cope with changing circumstances.
- Lead the committee’s duty to ensure proper accounting records are kept, financial resources are controlled, invested and economically spent in line with governance, legal and regulatory requirements.
Person Specification
- Financial management knowledge and skills (preferred)
- Some experience in a financial role (essential)
- A commitment to the organisation’s aims and objectives (essential)
- A willingness to devote the necessary time and effort (essential)
- An ability to work effectively as a member of a team (essential)
- A commitment to equal opportunities (essential)
About the Recovery Festival
Started in 2013, Bristol's Recovery Festival has become one of the biggest recovery-focused events in the region, growing in numbers and going from strength to strength, year on year.
The festival was established as a free, volunteer-led event with a sole focus of bringing together people from recovery communities across the South West, along with local peer-led communities and drug & alcohol treatment providers.
We offer an opportunity for those still in active addiction, to see that there might be a worthwhile life without alcohol or drugs. For those working in services we help professionals to gain a better understanding of what recovery is about and to be encouraged by seeing clients who have survived, thrived and moved on to a better life. For those who think addiction is a dead end, it is our hope that we can change their mind.
We come together in our diversity: those in recovery, those working or volunteering within the community and those who support recovery and well-being in a variety of ways, to bring compassion, understanding and most importantly hope.
The festival includes opportunities to listen to the stories of people in recovery and also to explore the many avenues that are available to those seeking help, be that through mutual aid, creative arts or any one of various therapies. The event is jam-packed with inspiration, music and fun for all.