Location
London Arena, London (primarily remote working with occasional travel for meetings)

Hours
Full Time, Permanent

Salary
£61,526 per annum

About the Role
Are you ready to use your financial expertise to drive fundraising growth and help shape a more inclusive future for people with learning disabilities? Join Mencap as our Finance Lead – Fundraising & Communications, Advocacy and Activism (CAA) and play a pivotal role in maximising the impact of our fundraising and advocacy work.
As part of our collaborative Finance Business Partnering team, you’ll support fundraising, communications, advocacy, and activism across Mencap. You’ll provide clear financial advice, insightful analysis, and strong financial management to ensure our fundraising income is used effectively to benefit people with learning disabilities.
Over the next five years, Mencap has big ambitions to significantly grow our fundraising income and increase our influencing and campaigning impact to ensure people with a learning disability can live life to the full.
This role offers flexibility around location with large offices in London and Peterborough and smaller offices throughout the UK. While primarily remote, occasional travel for meetings is required.

Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with directorate teams to create robust budgets and forecasts, offering support and advice for realistic financial planning.
- Providing clear financial reports and analysis to help teams understand results, spot emerging issues, and make informed decisions.
- Supporting complex income forecasting (e.g. legacies), using scenario analysis to guide planning and assess risk.
- Delivering financial analysis and modelling to support investment decisions.
- Ensuring funding applications and management of restricted funds are accurate and compliant.
- Improving finance processes and reporting, including with our new Salesforce fundraising CRM system.
- Acting as key contact for external auditors and funders regarding fundraising financials.
- Ensuring accounting and financial compliance with Charity SORP and other relevant regulations.
- Managing and coaching an FBP team member, supporting their development.

Experience
- Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA or equivalent).
- Proven experience in finance business partnering, ideally within a charity or fundraising environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret and communicate complex financial data.
- Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management abilities.
- Clear communication and influencing skills, able to explain financial information to others.
- Motivation to improve systems and processes.
- Commitment to improving the lives of people with a learning disability.

Highly desirable
- Knowledge of Charity SORP and charity finance regulations.
- Experience with restricted reserves and external reporting to funders.
- Familiarity with fundraising bids, donor engagement, and business development.
- Salesforce and/or Power BI experience.

About you
If you are passionate about using your financial expertise to create real, positive change for people with learning disabilities, we want to hear from you!