Deputy Finance Director

The Deputy Director of Finance will provide strategic leadership across Finance, Procurement, and Risk Management functions, ensuring the organisation meets its statutory obligations and delivers value for money. This role supports the Finance Director in maintaining financial integrity, driving efficiency, and embedding robust governance across all operations.

Financial Management

• Oversight and strategic leadership of the development and delivery of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.
• Ensure compliance with public sector financial regulations, including Managing Public Money and relevant accounting standards.
• Oversee financial controls, internal audit coordination, and external audit readiness.
• Provide strategic financial advice to senior stakeholders to support decision-making.

Procurement

• Oversight and leadership of the team in developing and implementing procurement strategies aligned with organisational goals.
• Ensure procurement activities deliver value for money, transparency, and compliance.
• Oversight and leadership of contract management and supplier relationship strategies.
• Promote sustainable and ethical procurement practices.

Risk Management

• Oversight and strategic leadership of the development and maintenance of the organisation’s risk management framework.
• Leading the risk team in their remit to identify, assess, and mitigate financial, operational, and strategic risks.
• Ensure risk reporting is embedded in governance and decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with internal audit and compliance teams to monitor risk controls.

Stakeholder Management

• Deputise for the Finance Director as required.
• Lead and develop high-performing teams across finance, procurement, and risk.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Champion diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing within the team.

Skills & Knowledge

• Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA) least 10 years post qualification management accounting experience.
• Proven experience in senior finance leadership roles with interaction at ExCo and Board level.
• Strong knowledge of procurement and risk management practices.
• Excellent strategic thinking and analytical skills.
• Effective communicator with strong leadership and influencing capabilities.

Desirable

• Experience in public sector-specific experience, e.g., public sector, healthcare, education.
• Familiarity with ERP systems and financial technologies.
• Knowledge of sustainability and ESG principles in procurement.
• Proficient with excel and financial modelling.
• Good attention to detail and able to prioritise activities
• Adaptable, and flexible and working in a fast-paced environment which changes and adapts to business needs.
• Management of a team of c12 staff
• Provide support and guidance to junior staff as needed
• Increase FRC efficiency and cost-effectiveness
• The Deputy Finance Director plays a key strategic role in influencing an organisation's financial direction, requiring strong business interaction, relationship building, and influencing skills. They must effectively communicate financial information and insights to both finance and non-finance teams, building trust and fostering collaboration to drive business decisions. This involves strategic thinking, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to influence key stakeholders.
• The Deputy Finance Director's role is fundamentally cantered around problem-solving and decision-making, leveraging financial expertise to guide the organisation. This involves analysing complex financial data, assessing risks, and making informed choices that drive business forward.

Please apply by following the link our website https://www.frc.org.uk/frc-for-you/careers and uploading a copy of your CV and covering letter as a single document upload. In the covering letter, please set out, by reference to the person specification above how you meet the required skillset.

• How you meet the required skillset
• Tell us where you heard about this job

Rewards and benefits

• The FRC offers remuneration packages, including 30 days annual leave, ability to buy extra leave.
• Generous employer pension contribution of 10%.
• Staff Employee Assistance Programme including confidential counselling and work life services.
• The FRC offers staff the opportunity to save at least 25% on the purchase of a new bike through the Cycle to work scheme.
• The FRC has a strong work/life balance ethos.

The FRC believes that equality of opportunity and diversity is important in the work that we do and we are strongly committed to being an inclusive employer. Our values of being fair and independent supports this commitment. We're a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme, which means that we guarantee an interview to any disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

Equal opportunities monitoring is an important means of demonstrating and implementing our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and diversity. Completing our diversity form will assist the FRC to identify any barriers that prevent access to employment and career development for certain groups of people, and to develop solutions, such as action plans, new policies and practices.

The role is based in our central Birmingham office. The post holder should be able to work flexibly to support the team’s activities and also provide cover within the FRC as necessary. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement with its workforce. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices per week, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager.