Director of Finance and Corporate Services Appointment Brief August 2021
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EngineeringUK | Appointment Brief
Introduction Thank you for your interest in becoming EngineeringUK’s Director of Finance and Corporate Services. You would join 60 colleagues who are united in their commitment to our mission – to inform and inspire young people and grow the number and diversity of tomorrow’s engineers. EngineeringUK benefits from a stable income stream from the registration fees of Chartered engineers and technicians, supplemented by our corporate members and additional raised funds. This privileged position situates us at the heart of the sector, with a responsibility to work collaboratively across it and focus on activities that we are best placed to deliver and that add the most value. We are passionate about making sure that all young people understand the breadth, societal impact and excitement of modern engineering careers and that they know how to get into them. We are especially attentive to addressing engineering workforce needs for environmental sustainability and Net Zero. We are looking for a new Director of Finance and Corporate Services who will help us embed the dynamism and ambition shown over the last 18 months. During this period, we have redeveloped our three programmes for young people to be delivered digitally as well as face-to-face, and launched two new products to support the hundreds of organisations who share our goals.
We take an evidence-based approach, testing the breadth of what we do to seek out opportunities to increase our impact and our new Director of Finance and Corporate Services will innovate and improve essential operations, as well as bring technical expertise for financial oversight. The Director of Finance and Corporate Services will be part of an Executive Team of five and will help us analyse the distribution of our efforts to optimise our impact as we start to build our next five year strategy. The Executive Team play a critical role in motivating and developing all EngineeringUK staff to support and encourage them to reach their full potential. We are determined to improve the inclusivity of all that we do, internally and externally, working with young people, partners and colleagues from increasingly diverse backgrounds and supporting each other in building our understanding of how we can do better. If our collaborative and positive approach appeals to you, then we hope you will be inspired to get in touch.
Dr Hilary Leevers Chief Executive, EngineeringUK
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Who we are EngineeringUK is a not-for-profit organisation, which works in partnership with the engineering community to inspire tomorrow’s engineers and increase the number and diversity of young people choosing academic and vocational pathways into engineering. Engineering is a varied, stimulating and valuable career and we need to work harder than ever to ensure that it is accessible for this generation of young people – for their own life chances and so that we have a diverse and insightful workforce that enables the UK to thrive.
Through Big Bang, Energy Quest, Robotics Challenge and Tomorrow’s Engineers careers resources, we’re showing young people from all backgrounds how their studies could lead to a rewarding career as a STEM professional.
We urge those in education, government and industry to work together to foster the critical engineering and technology skills needed for the UK be a leader in innovation and improve societal and economic resilience and environmental sustainability. EngineeringUK aims to grow the collective impact of work across the sector to help young people understand what engineering is, how to get into it, and be motivated and able to access the educational and training opportunities on the way. Over 140 signatories of our recently launched Tomorrow’s Engineers Code have committed to working more collaboratively and effectively together to reach these shared goals, helped along by our digital platform for teachers, Neon. We aim to inspire, engage and inform the next generation of engineers directly via programmes designed to excite young people about the variety and opportunity presented by a career in modern engineering and give them the chance to meet people already working as engineers.
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Watch our video and find out more here.
How we work
EngineeringUK works in partnership with hundreds of organisations across the engineering community, all of which share in our ambition to inspire tomorrow’s engineers. We work with employers and institutions, driving up the quality and collective impact of engagement activities. We analyse what enables, inspires or deters young people from choosing a career in engineering and share and apply our learnings widely. We participate in and drive inspirational campaigns which transform the perception of engineering of young people and their influencers. Our work aims to grow overall investment in quality, engineeringfocused, STEM engagement activities, run by EngineeringUK and others.
We form strategic partnerships to broaden reach especially to under-represented groups, including with Royal Academy of Engineering, Careers & Enterprise Company, Department for Education, Engineering Council and STEM Learning. Our corporate members comprise some of the country’s best-known engineering companies, while more still work with us as sponsors of The Big Bang, Energy Quest and Robotics Challenge, as signatories of the Tomorrow’s Engineers Code, as contributors to Neon and as partners in our research.
Read more about how we work here.
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Ambition and values Our ambition is to inform and inspire young people and grow the number and diversity of tomorrow’s engineers.
Our strategy
Our values
We aim to achieve our ambition through the 3 core strands of work:
We are guided by a series of values that we apply to all our activity.
Increasing reach and inspiration Reach more, and more diverse, young people with inspiring messages about careers in engineering.
We are insightful and open and honest with our insight so that everything we do to inspire young people into engineering is based on clear and up-todate evidence, gained by listening to and learning from our community.
Developing and sharing insight Be the recognised and trusted voice on the pathways to engineering, related enablers and blockers for young people and good practice for engagement activities. Growing collective impact Simplify the landscape and enable partnerships and collaborations to inspire more, and more diverse, young people into engineering.
We are courageous and dynamic in the development, piloting and promotion of ideas and activities which can help us all to inspire tomorrow’s engineers and increase the talent pipeline for engineering. We are passionate about inspiring a new generation of engineers and making a positive difference to young people’s lives. We are inclusive, with partnership and collaboration at the heart of what we do. We are determined to reach those people who are under-represented in modern engineering.
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Finances EngineeringUK is a not-for-profit organisation, funded predominantly via the professional registration fees of individual engineers, as well as the support of a range of businesses, trusts and foundations, and a corporate membership scheme.
Income and expenditure Data for financial year ending 31 August 2020.
£13.4m
£13.2m
Total income
Total expenditure
£13.3m charitable activities
£13.19m charitable activities
£56k other trading activities £61k other
£9k raising funds
Our 2020 accounts are available to download – please note that they relate to a 17 month financial year as we changed the timing of our financial year.
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Organisation charts EngineeringUK Executive & Senior Management Team
Director of Business & Industry
Head of Business Development
Business & Industry
Chief Executive
Director of Communications
Director of Finance & Corporate Services
Director of Engagement Projects
Head of Big Bang
Head of Business Services
Head of Neon
Head of Communications
Head of Finance Tomorrow’s Engineers
Head of Research
Head of Careers
Head of Policy & Public Affairs
Communications
Finance & Corporate Services
Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Head of People
People
EngineeringUK Finance & Corporate Services Team Director of Finance & Corporate Services
Head of Business Services
Head of Finance
Project Manager
Management Accountant
Operations Executive
Finance Assistant
Legal & Compliance Support Manager
Data Manager - Vacancy
Corporate Governance Manager - Vacancy
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Sub-Strategy 2019-22 We are proud members of the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (ENEI), the UK’s leading employer network covering all aspects of equality and inclusion issues in the workplace. We also use the Diversity and Inclusion Progression Framework for professional bodies to help benchmark and guide our work. We developed this 3-year equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy to provide clarity on what we aim to achieve and help prioritise actions, eventually helping to create a diverse and inclusive engineering workforce, reflective of the UK population. Our work focusses on bringing young people onto engineering pathways at the age of 19, but we will continue to support the work of other organisations to ensure that further and higher education and employment are increasingly inclusive and with improved diversity. We will also continue to provide sectoral data on EDI with respect to the engineering sector’s workforce and associated education and training at all ages.
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EngineeringUK has been working to improve the diversity of young people participating in our programmes for many years – we will continue to do this while investing more in understanding how participation affects different groups. We will gather and share evidence and best practice that already exists and test how we can improve our own activities. We also recognise the importance of reflecting on changes we can make within EngineeringUK. We will continue to use external progression frameworks and consultation with our staff to identify where we can improve. We continue to review our policies and recruitment processes through an EDI lens and are committed to becoming a more diverse and inclusive organisation.
Why we are determined to improve EDI • Research demonstrates that increased workforce diversity improves innovation, creativity, productivity, resilience and market insight. We have a critical role to play in helping the engineering sector to be more effective by growing the diversity of its workforce. • As the engineering workforce becomes more diverse this provides the societal good of also diversifying the beneficiaries of engineering products and services. • Increasing the proportion of underrepresented groups progressing into engineering will not only raise the quality of engineering, but also address the engineering skills shortage at a numerical level.
Strategic aims We aim to simultaneously improve the diversity of: • those that work for EngineeringUK (staff and Trustees). • the young people that we seek to inform and inspire into engineering. • the organisations that we fund to work with young people (to improve their organisational diversity, to engage under-represented audiences and to measure their EDI impact). Further details on the actions we are going to take to support this as well as our recent diversity data can be found here.
• All young people should have equal opportunity in all walks of life, but particularly in pathways that lead to fulfilling and rewarding careers such as engineering. These pathways have the potential to break intergenerational cycles of poverty. • Enhancing our own EDI will strengthen our delivery (particularly in relation to our EDI strategy). Delivering improved EDI also aligns with the priorities of many of our current funders and members and should widen our appeal to new funders and partners, also improving organisational resilience.
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Environmental Sustainability Sub-Strategy We were motivated to develop our Environmental Sustainability Sub-Strategy because we believe in the importance of improving environmental sustainability; we also note that our funders, stakeholders, and partners increasingly expect us to play our part. This sub-strategy aims to ensure that EngineeringUK has an impactful and coherent approach to improving environmental sustainability through:
Vision The UK has the engineers needed to design and build an environmentally sustainable society.
Purpose We will inspire more, and more diverse, young people into engineering roles that address environmental sustainability whilst also playing our part by operating in an increasingly sustainable way.
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Objectives 1. Grow our understanding of how to inspire young people into engineering to meet the workforce needs for environmental sustainability. 2. Inform and inspire young people so more choose to make a positive impact on the environment through engineering careers. 3. Operate in an environmentally sustainable way. Our greatest potential for positive impact is through helping secure the future workforce, whilst also challenging ourselves to reduce the environmental impact of our own work. We have identified our long-term objectives and actions for 2021, many of which will build our understanding and lead to the development of future actions including any new activities we might introduce or setting of targets that we would strive to achieve. Further details on the actions we are going to take to support this are available upon request.
Role description Job Title:
Director of Finance and Corporate Services
Location:
London, likely to adopt hybrid working policy
Reporting to: Chief Executive Direct Reports: Head of Business Services, Head of Finance, Corporate Governance Manager Salary:
£96,000 - £118,000
EngineeringUK is a not-for-profit organisation, which works in partnership with the engineering community to inform and inspire young people and grow the number and diversity of tomorrow’s engineers. We work locally, regionally and nationally with a wide range of organisations across business and industry, education, professional partnership with these organisations to develop and promote effective initiatives and programmes to inspire young people to consider a career in engineering.
Overall purpose The Director of Finance and Corporate Services is responsible for providing the fundamental infrastructure to support the delivery of EngineeringUK’s goals. The Director of Finance and Corporate Services oversees the provision of finance, company secretarial, facilities, business operations and other corporate services, ensuring that all statutory obligations are met. The Director of Finance and Corporate Services is responsible for ensuring that these functions meet and support the needs of EngineeringUK Group (including the trading and CIC subsidiaries) through an effective technical, strategic and business partnering approach and encouraging and enabling the development of creative solutions. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, the Director of Finance and Corporate Services manages a team of around 10 staff (including 3 direct reports), also drawing on (and sharing) staff resources from the EngineeringUK team on a project matrix basis. The Director of Finance and Corporate Services will also work with the organisations which support or partner EngineeringUK or delivery our programmes, including the professional engineering institutions, the Royal Academy of Engineering, our Corporate Members and other industry supporters, Government departments, STEM Learning and the
Careers & Enterprise Company. It is also essential that we maintain our positive working relationship with the Engineering Council with which we share offices and also a funding stream - the registration fees of approximately 250,000 registered Chartered, Incorporated Engineers and Engineering Technicians. Additional EngineeringUK funding is generated from corporate membership, thirdparty project funding (including from government), commercial income, charitable contributions and financial investments. As a member of the Executive Team, the Director of Finance and Corporate Services contributes to the collective development of staff across the organisation to become more strategic, purposeful and effective. All members of the Executive Team are expected to act as ambassadors for the organisation and role model the values of EngineeringUK, including our commitment to embedding diversity and inclusion in everything we do and being excited to learn how we can do better across all our work. As a member of the Executive Team, and leader of business operations, the Director of Finance and Corporate Services plays a critical role in developing EngineeringUK’s forward planning, ensuring plans are ambitious, impactful and resilient to changing circumstances.
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Role responsibilities 1. As a member of the Executive Team, fully participate in the strategic leadership of EngineeringUK to ensure that ambitious, impactful and resilient plans are in place and monitored in the short and longer term, working closely with the relevant stakeholders. 2. Oversight of Company Secretarial duties to EngineeringUK Board and its Committees and panels. 3. Adherence to Charity Commission, Companies Act, The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies, HMRC and other statutory obligations including adherence to Charity Commission, Companies Act, The Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies, and HMRC. 4. Strategic leadership and oversight of all issues and operations relating to Finance, Business Services, IT and Governance. • The Finance team is responsible for providing a high-quality accounting function to EngineeringUK and ensuring EngineeringUK remains compliant with Financial Regulations. The Finance team currently records and processes around £10m in income and expenditure per annum using Sage Accounting. They prepare statutory accounts for the three group companies and monthly management accounts for EngineeringUK and the Big Bang CIC. They provide clear support and advice to staff and management on the implications and implementation of decisions.
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• The Business services team is responsible for project management (including QMS and project management software), risk management, ISO, business planning, contracts and other legal matters, GDPR and facilities management. • The IT support is responsible for managing the out-sourced IT support provider and procurement of appropriate IT equipment for all staff. It is also responsible for maintaining and developing our CRM system, Salesforce, to meet business requirements. It is not responsible for web development. • Our Corporate Governance support ensures the compliance, smooth running and effective impact of the EngineeringUK Board and its Committees and panels. 5. Leadership and Governance of Defined Benefit pension scheme through role as Trustee. 6. Lead, direct, motivate and develop your team and contribute to cultural and staff development across EngineeringUK.
Person specification Essential experience and attributes • Ability to fully engage with the EngineeringUK’s values, be committed to its goals and act as an Ambassador for and role model within the organisation. • Experience of leading, managing and motivating teams to deliver results. • Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective relationships at all levels inside and outside the organisation; persuades, influences and listens to others using reason and cooperation.
Desirable experiences and attributes • CCAB qualified accountant. • Proven participation at an executive or senior level. • Good knowledge of rules and laws associated with company secretarial practices. • Experience meeting the IT needs of a small organisation.
• Ability to operate at senior management level, contributing to strategic analysis, strategy setting, evaluation and taking a pro-active approach in the improvement of initiatives, or development and implementation of new ones. • Flexible and imaginative approach to problem solving and ability to challenge assumptions and successfully deliver challenging messages. • Extensive knowledge and experience of financial and management accounting. • Good knowledge of PAYE, VAT, other statutory regulations and accounting requirements (SORP, FRS, Companies Act). • Confident in understanding the IT needs of a small organisation and how to meet them.
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Annual leave, pension and benefits • Pension - Save for your future with a generous 10% contribution from us. • Life assurance - Our policy offers four times your annual salary for your nominated beneficiary. • Permanent health insurance - 75% of annual salary if you are unable to work longterm due to illness, injury or disability. • Holidays - 28 days of annual leave plus (non contractual) office closure between Christmas and New Year. • Flexitime - Maintain a healthy work/life balance with our flexible working culture, including core hours of 10-4. • Giving back - You get 2 paid days off work each year to volunteer for a good cause. • Sabbatical - Those with more than 5 years’ service are able to request a 3-month career break. • Employee Assistance Programme Our EAP provides staff with a 24-hour counselling service • BUPA health check - Annual assessment available free to those over 40 or those over 35 with more than 3 years’ service. We also offer a 50% subsidy on the cost for all other staff. • Parental leave - To help welcome a new addition into your life, we offer enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave to our staff (qualifying period applies).
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In addition, you will be eligible for a discretionary annual performance related bonus of up to 15% of basic salary earned, assessed against individual and organisational targets. EngineeringUK is an inclusive organisation; we welcome everyone with all skills, experiences, and backgrounds. Each applicant will be individually assed regardless of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, ethnicity, colour, or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. EngineeringUK are working hard to be a disability confident employer. Please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, we can make for you during this recruitment process and beyond.
We are an equal opportunities employer and are open to flexible working, including job share.
How to apply To apply for this position, please upload a CV and a supporting statement of no more than two pages of A4 onto our website.
Queries
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Applications should be made via the Prospectus website at: jobs.prospect-us.co.uk/jobs/details/hq00179031
Timetable Closing Date: 5 September Initial interviews with Prospectus: 10-15 September Panel interviews with EngineeringUK: Stage 1: 21-24 September Stage 2: 29 September These dates may be subject to change and applicants will be advised in advance should this happen.
Recruitment process Should you decide to make a formal application, you will receive feedback within seven working days of the closing date.
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