• Develop and manage the organisation’s financial strategy, budgets, and forecasts.
• Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting and analysis.
• Oversee financial operations, including accounting, payroll, and procurement.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards.
• Lead governance initiatives and ensure adherence to legal and ethical standards.
• Support the Board of Trustees with governance documentation and reporting.
• Manage risk assessment and mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate audits and liaise with external auditors and regulatory bodies.
• Provide strategic advice to the CEO and senior leadership team.
• Promote financial sustainability and resource optimisation across the organisation.
• Drive the NYA’s digital strategy as we embrace new technologies to enhance our work.
• Report to the NYA Audit and Risk Committee and the Finance and Growth Committee to ensure trustees are fully informed. This will include supporting analysis and scrutiny of business decisions and processes to strengthen the charities governance and leadership.
• Partner with the CEO in ensuring that the mission, purpose, and priorities of the organisation are fit for the times.
• Work collaboratively across the Executive Leadership Team to implement and adapt the NYA’s strategic objectives. Embed a mission first high-performance culture across the charity that focusses on prioritising activities which maximise positive impact and employee wellbeing.
• Represent the charity as the senior figure responsible for innovation activities and revenue generation across all operations.
• Represent the NYA as a senior figure in strategic partnerships and sector-wide collaboration.
• Work closely with the CEO and Director of Growth to shape and pursue strategic opportunities that advance the charity’s mission. Spot synergies and identify new and novel revenue streams.
• Strengthen NYA’s visibility and credibility as a national body by contributing to external initiatives and convening thought leadership spaces.
• Manage colleagues within the NYA finance, digital, governance and growth directorate.

• The post holder will have access to confidential information and is expected to ensure that the highest level of confidentiality is maintained at all times.

•   Leicester Office (LE1 5SN)

• The NYA has a set of corporate values which all employees and trustees are expected exhibit at all times. As a leadership role, the post holder is expected to role model these values, embedding them within the team as the lived experience of all within the NYA. The NYA’s values are:

This is a description of the job as it is presently constituted. It is the practice of The NYA to examine job descriptions from time to time and to update them to ensure they relate to the job as then being performed, or to incorporate whatever changes are being proposed. This will be conducted in consultation with you. It is the organisation’s aim to reach agreement on changes, but if agreement is not possible, the organisation reserves the right to insist on changes to your job description, after consultation with you.

The National Youth Agency (NYA) is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across the organisation.