Trustee Treasurer (Volunteer)

Full job description
Full job description: Open Country Treasurer (Voluntary)

1. Role Summary

- Monitor the financial performance of the charity. Report to the Trustee Board and Chief Officer at Board and Finance Sub-Committee meetings on income and expenditure compared with budget, cash flow, balance sheet position and reserves position.

- Liaise with external independent examiners on financial accounts and any other issues. Guide and advise fellow trustees to formally approve the annual report and accounts.

- Ensure that annual accounts and annual returns are timely submitted by the Chief Officer to all relevant regulators.

- Ensuring that the organisation’s finances are responsibly managed / invested.

- Oversee the financial affairs of the organisation and ensure they are legal, constitutional and within accepted accounting practice.

- Ensure proper accounting records are maintained and that effective financial procedures are in place.

2. Specific responsibilities

- Liaise with the Finance Officer and the external book-keepers, ensuring posting and book-keeping is accurate and up-to-date.

- In conjunction with the external book-keepers, review and / or prepare monthly management accounts. Review and investigate significant variances from budget. Provide monthly management accounts with a report on significant figures to the Finance Sub-Committee. Provide management accounts with a summary report, written or verbal, to trustees in advance of, or at, formal trustees’ meetings.

- Review and update the organisation’s ‘Finance Policy and Procedures’ annually.

- Act as one countersignatory on bank payments and applications to funders.

- Liaise with the Chief Officer on the production of an annual budget, present a draft to the Finance Committee for discussion. Propose its adoption to the Trustees no later than the last meeting of the previous financial year.

- Ensure all strategic plans are financially appraised and budgets are aligned to both short-term and long-term objectives each year.

- Assist the Chief Officer as necessary to ensure compliance with filing and regulatory requirements of Companies House and Charity Commission.

About Open Country

Open Country is a ground-breaking, Yorkshire-based charity (1107331) that seeks to enable people with any disability to access and enjoy the countryside. We offer a diverse programme of countryside activities and the provision of information and advice via hubs in Harrogate (Head Office), Wakefield and Teesside