Blood Pressure Association

							  BLOOD PRESSURE ASSOCIATION

  HEAD OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

  Person Specification

  The following criteria will be used as the basis for recruitment and selection.


Criteria         Essential                              Desirable

Personal            Highly numerate                           Ability to work well in a small team
Skills              Comfortable dealing with                  Willingness to adhere to set
                     financial data                             guidelines for the provision and
                    Excellent attention to detail              delivery of information
                    IT literate with excellent                Experience of helping to formulate
                     keyboard skills for data entry             policy in a voluntary sector
                    Excellent communications                   organisation
                     skills, both written and verbal           Comfortable working in an informal
                    Ability to deal with people in a           environment
                     sensitive manner                          Comfortable line managing non-
                    Quick at picking up new                    financial staff
                     processes                                 Comfortable dealing with general
                    Willingness to take                        administration duties in addition to
                     responsibility for processes               finance
                     and results


Experience          Experience of Charity                 Experience of working with TAS
                     Finance at a senior level              Books or other accounting software
                    Knowledge of the Charities’           Knowledge of confidentiality and Data
                     SORP                                   Protection issues
                    Knowledge of Charity Tax              Confident in presenting financial data
                     and VAT issues                         to trustees and senior managers
                    Experience of preparing
                     accounts for audit
                    Extremely good Excel skills
                     including linking spreadsheets
                     and using formulae
                    Confident understanding of
                     double-entry book-keeping
                    Confidence in posting
                     correcting journals to ensure
                     accounts are ‘true and fair’
                    Experience of working for a
                     Voluntary Sector Organisation


                    CCAB qualified or part                CIPFA Certificate in Charity Finance
Qualification        qualified                              and Accountancy