Location: Flexible (hybrid)
Contract: Permanent
Salary: £118,500
Closing Date: 1 March 2026
The role
Part of the Business Services and Compliance directorate, the Chief Financial Officer is an influential and strategic role at Migrant Help. You will oversee financial operations across the group, ensuring robust controls, insightful reporting and efficient systems, supporting financial sustainability and resilience. You will be instrumental in evaluating business decisions, managing relationships with key partners, and driving continuous improvement across processes. With gravitas and credibility, the CFO will challenge constructively, foster cross-functional collaboration, and contribute to our long-term success as a trusted and forward-thinking partner.
If you have first-rate advisory and influencing skills with proven ability to deal with multiple internal and external stakeholders, and are looking for an exciting role that makes a difference, we’d love to hear from you!
Role responsibilities
Strategic
- Leading in partnership with the CEOs, Senior Leadership and the boards of both Migrant Help and Clear Voice, to successfully develop, implement and monitor the organisational strategic plans.
- Creating, developing and implementing the respective Business Services & Compliance strategies, along with the CEOs for Migrant Help and Clear Voice.
- Along with Leadership, creating a culture which embodies the organisational values, strategic objectives and purpose of the respective organisations.
- Contributing to the overall success of the organisation in accordance with Migrant Help and Clear Voice’s aims and objectives.
- Working with CEO and senior leadership, align financial planning with strategic goals.
- Collaborate with senior leadership to align priorities and provide appropriate and timely support for service delivery.
Leadership
- This role encompasses leadership in Finance, Compliance and Risk, Commercial and Legal, and governance.
- Overseeing finance and governance structures, systems and processes, so that they remain effective and appropriate to the size and nature of the work of Migrant Help and its subsidiary.
- Providing excellent stewardship of Migrant Help’s resources, to deliver value for money in areas under the postholder’s control and to guide and advise colleagues across the organisation to achieve the same.
- Working across leadership to provide effective governance in line with charity and legal requirements and best practice.
- Providing an inspirational leadership presence, visible and accessible throughout the organisation, through site visits, conferences, written and verbal communications, and various stakeholder forum, modelling compassionate, strong and fair leadership.
- Participating at Board, Committee, Leadership and Management meetings as needed to achieve the governance and leadership responsibilities of the role.
- Any other ad hoc duties as deemed reasonable by the Chief Executive Officer and Board.
Operational
- Leading an expert team to provide advice and guidance on legal, commercial, financial, compliance and governance matters, with channels for seeking external advice, where appropriate.
- Supporting workforce planning efforts to align talent needs with current and future business priorities.
- Overseeing financial management, planning, budgeting, reporting, audit processes and compliance with UK Charities and companies reporting obligations, financial regulations, funding reporting requirements and internal policies.
- Supporting the maintenance of reserves in alignment with our reserves policy, through monitoring, forecasting and timely reporting to leadership and the boards.
- Leading banking and treasury management with appropriate policy, governance, risk assessment and reporting.
- Collaborating with the Technology, Innovation and Insight function to design, implement and optimise core systems to build-in appropriate data protection and cyber-security controls and leading the selection, development and use of appropriate technology systems to support the Business Services and Compliance Effectiveness function.
- Commissioning services, projects or activity that supports the delivery of Business Services & Compliance objectives.
- Maintaining a clear understanding of and providing or sourcing up-to-date knowledge of the legal framework and best practice within the scope of Business Services and Compliance.
- Line management of senior managers within the Business Services and Compliance function to deliver high quality leadership, robust risk management and excellent service delivery.
Growth & Change
- Driving continuous improvement throughout the organisation through your impact on people, resources, quality and sustainability.
- Working closely with the CEOs and leadership of Migrant Help and Clear Voice, directing, developing and implementing effective strategies for transformation within the organisations.
- Developing senior and future leaders and maintaining a succession planning strategy for the senior leaders across the organisations.
- Support activity to promote sustainability and the achievement of social value in our work.
Engagement
- Managing excellent relationships with stakeholders.
- Maintaining and enhancing the reputation of Migrant Help and Clear Voice by representing the organisation internally and externally.
- Promoting equity, diversity and inclusion, working with the EDI lead to embed these values within our culture and monitor our effectiveness at living these values.
- Encouraging and enabling working with clients through our Lived Experience Advisory Panels to coproduce services.
The experience and skills you need
- Demonstrable proven experience in senior finance leadership role (e.g. CFO, FD) in a fast-growing, people focussed organisation, along with leadership of other functional support service areas, such as IT, Commercial, Quality or Facilities.
- Demonstrable creative approach to development, implementation and evaluation of finance and business support services strategy.
- Understanding digital service development and delivery, with experience in finance system transformation, achieving efficiency, data-driven decision-making and scalability.
- Ability to understand, evaluate and advocate effective and persuasive strategies, contributing to the wider direction of the organisation.
- Excellent people leadership, coaching and team-building skills, able to help drive best performance across individuals and teams and foster a culture of collaboration and high performance.
For full person specification please see the job description
Migrant Help is committed to safeguarding those we provide a service to, applicants will have to undergo strict vetting procedures throughout different stages of the recruitment process therefore:
- This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
- This post is subject to Security Clearance (SC) therefore applicants must:
- Be able to provide a valid passport eg. 10 year full British passport, EU or non-EU Passport with indefinite leave to remain
- Be able to provide continuous UK address history for the previous 5 years
- Provide full employment history for the previous 3 years and/or suitable documentation to cover any gaps in employment
About Migrant Help
Migrant Help is a leading charity that was established in 1963 and delivers a range of support and advice services to people affected by displacement and exploitation across the UK. Our vision is for a global society that protects vulnerable people, treats them with respect and enables them to reach their full potential.
We foster a culture in which equality, diversity and inclusion are recognised, valued and encouraged. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, we match your skills with the needs of our organisation, as long as you share our values, vision and goals. We welcome applications from candidates regardless of their age, religion or belief, race, gender reassignment, disability, sexual orientation, sex, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.
These are some of the benefits we offer
- Our working week is 35 hours per week offering flexibility and work life balance
- Enhanced family friendly provisions
- Employees will gain an extra day annual leave per year to a maximum of 39 days, including bank holidays (pro-rata).
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave
- Access to Perkbox, an employee rewards and benefits platform with over 9,000 deals and discounts, a range of free perks, employee wellbeing support and other additional employee benefits and recognitions.
- Wellbeing support.
- Migrant Help offers employees a non-contributory pension scheme Migrant Help pays 8% worth of employee salary into the pension scheme.
How to apply
To apply for this role, please click on the 'use this link to apply' button and complete the online application form attaching a copy of your CV and cover letter.
Selection Criteria
Your application will be assessed against the job description and person specification, which can be found via the above link, we therefore recommend you review both before you apply.
We encourage applications from disabled people by offering them an interview if they meet the minimum criteria for the job
Please note this vacancy may close early depending on applications received
