HIRING: Finance Consultant

Aug 2, 2024 | Open Roles

Tipping Point UK is a not-for-profit worker cooperative working nimbly behind the scenes to build, train,support, resource, organise and mobilise hundreds of diverse grassroots groups into networks tackling the intersections between climate, social, economic and racial justice.

The purpose of this consultancy role is to provide the Tipping Point UK staff team with clarity over our organisational budget and finances as well as serve as the primary liaison between Tipping Point UK’s fiscal host and our staff team. You will provide regular bookkeeping and financial reporting as well as serve as the primary point of contact for all questions related to payroll, budgeting, income and expenses.

Start Date: As soon as possible

Rolling application: We are accepting applications on a rolling basis until role is filled

Contract and compensation: 

  • Consultancy contract
  • Day rate (7 hours per day): £158-178 
    • Day rate is determined by a social justice compensation model that determines day rates based on whether team members have children or dependents, and/or any inherited wealth. 
  • 7 hours per week from starting from as soon as possible until 31 July 2025, with potential to be increased and extended. 
  • Location: This remote work can be done from anywhere in the UK. Occasional travel required. The candidate must reside in the UK and have permission to work in the UK
  • Individuals or organisations are eligible to respond to this request. Subcontracting is not allowed.

Essential criteria 

  • Experience working with payroll and invoicing processes. 
  • Experience of financial modelling and forecasting.
  • Exhibits strategic thinking to plan for the future and deliver solutions that can cope with a changing financial environment.
  • Proven bookkeeping skills and experience of creating and managing budgets
  • Proactive and well organised, with strong administrative skills and the ability to work autonomously and independently to meet internal and external deadlines
  • Experience of managing processes or projects that require close attention to detail
  • Proficient in use of Airtable, Slack and Google Workspace 
  • Previous experience working with not-for-profit organisations and/or worker owned cooperatives
  • Responsive and communicative

Responsibilities 

Serve on our Funding Working Group 

  • Take responsibility for management of our budget, financial modelling, forecasting, expenditure tracking and fundraising.
  • Take responsibility for action points that arise from Funding Working Group meetings related to the responsibilities listed below. 
  • Represent Funding Working Group at monthly organisational development meetings with our full cooperative membership and communicate organisational finances to the team.

 Bookkeeping, financial analysis and reporting: 

  • Provide monthly budget to actual summary, balance sheet and other reports as necessary to our internal staff meetings of our cooperative 
  • Work collaboratively with the Finance & Funding Woking Group to provide financial insights and analysis to support informed decision-making, in particular around budgeting and fundraising.
  • Maintain our financial processes and compliance. 
  • Ensure our internal accounting matches our account with our fiscal host
  • Maintain asset registry
  • Work with members of Funding Working Group to create budgets and financial reports for funding bids and grant reports. 

Fiscal Host Liaison and Payroll

  • Serve as main point of contact for our fiscal host as well as the primary liaison between staff and our fiscal host. Respond to staff and fiscal host requests in a timely manner. 
  • Work with our fiscal hosts to deliver monthly payroll, pensions and invoice payments on time. Send any temporary or long term payroll changes to our fiscal host each month and track any capacity changes in our leave tracker and other internal systems. 

Database management 

  • Update our internal database when there are long term staff capacity changes to reflect staff at their correct capacities in our financial and leave tracking systems. 

 Payment processing

  • Review and approve payment requests 
  • Review and approve card payment requests 
  • Make card payments for staff when needed

How to Apply

We ask everyone to read our Organising Principles before applying.  Please complete this application form.

We also ask all candidates to complete a separate and confidential Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Form

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected]