Trustee with financial experience - Sounddelivery Media

Sounddelivery Media is a dynamic charity tackling injustice and inequality. We’re looking to strengthen our board by recruiting a new trustee with financial experience to take us into the next stage of our development.

Who we are

Sounddelivery Media is a dynamic charity tackling injustice and inequality. We’re looking to strengthen our board by recruiting new Trustees to take us into the next stage of our development as an organisation.

Sounddelivery Media works alongside people with direct experience of social injustice and inequality to advocate for themselves and their communities publicly by providing training, support and media matches, media meet ups and media opportunities.

The role

The overall role of a trustee with financial experience is to maintain an overview of the organisation’s affairs, including its financial affairs, ensure its financial viability and ensure that proper financial records, controls and procedures are maintained.

In addition to the general responsibilities of a trustee, duties include:

● Financial oversight of the charity – being assured that the financial resources of the organisation meet its present and future needs.

● Overseeing and reviewing the preparation of the charity’s annual budget. Then presenting the budget to the Board for approval.

● Reviewing the quarterly management accounts and annual financial statements and presenting to the Board for approval in collaboration with the CEO and Finance and Operations Manager.

● Ensuring that the charity has an appropriate reserves policy.

● Ensuring that appropriate accounting procedures and controls are in place.

● Liaising with any paid staff and external accountants about financial matters.

● Advising on the financial implications of the organisation’s strategic plans.

● Ensuring that the annual financial statements are prepared and disclosed in the form required by funders and the relevant statutory bodies, for example the Charity Commission.

● Ensuring external scrutiny of the financial statements in the manner required and any recommendations are implemented.

● Keeping the board informed about its financial duties and responsibilities.

● Contributing to the fundraising strategy of the organisation.

● Sitting on appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary panels as required.

● Lead oversight of the risk register to ensure that the risk mitigating actions are appropriate and being undertaken

● To act as the lead person for staff to raise in confidence any concerns about fraud.

About you

In addition to the person specification of a trustee, duties of the trustee with financial experience include:

● Financial qualifications and experience within the charity sector

● Extensive experience at setting and managing budgets.

● Some experience fundraising, income generation and pension scheme.

● Alignment with Sounddelivery Media’s mission.

● Supporting the board to make decisions relating to the financial health of the charity

● Providing appropriate oversight at operational level

● The skills to analyse proposals and examine their financial consequences

● A willingness and ability to devote the necessary time

● A willingness to learn and carry out the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of charity trusteeship

​​For a full description of the trustee with financial experience role, please see our application pack.