Volunteer Treasurer | Dorset Community Action - #151654

We are looking for a Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees.

What difference will you make?

We’re looking for a finance professional, with the right skills, experience and motivation, who’d love to give a little back to these communities by supporting one of Dorset’s leading charities Be part of a dynamic and well-respected charity championing and supporting the voluntary sector in Dorset. Help Dorset Community Action become more enterprising and market-driven to better achieve its charitable aims whilst maintaining its core values. Use your financial experience and professional skills to benefit Dorset’s communities.

What are we looking for?

Essential Skills A strong understanding of financial accounting and reporting procedures Ability to communicate financial information to those who may have little or no financial background. Experience in financial planning, which may include investment and business financing experience. A range of experience that may include business, public sector and VCSE, e.g. achieved by a business person having volunteered for VCSE organisations; Experience of board membership. Desirable Skills Understanding of charity sector governance and financial practices; General VCSE sector knowledge and its challenges; Interest in some or all of DCA’s strategic aims affordable housing, health & social care, low Carbon, community led economic development, employment and enterprise, VCSE sector and community infrastructure.

What will you be doing?

Support the Senior Management Team (SMT) and Trustees with the strategic financial planning of the organisation to ensure our ongoing financial viability. Support the Finance Manager with overseeing the financial affairs of the organisation and ensure they are conducted within legal requirements, accounting conventions and good practice. Ensure that the charity has satisfactory systems for holding in trust for beneficiaries; funding, properties and other assets, and ensure that funding is invested to the maximum benefit of the charity, within the constraints of the law and other policies set by the board Ensure that the charity’s financial dealings are systematically accounted for, audited and publicly available.