Advertised from 29 October 2025

Role

The Yard is an award-winning charity that runs adventure play services for children with disabilities and/or additional support needs and their families across Scotland.

Having recently expanded our services into Glasgow and increased our facilities in Dundee, we are seeking an experienced Head of Finance to contribute to the strategic and business planning of The Yard, to support us through the next stage of our development.

About the role & your responsibilities:

As Head of Finance, you will work closely with our Executive Team to contribute to the strategic & business planning of The Yard. 

You will also have management responsibility for the Finance Team while providing oversight to the Office & Facilities Manager.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining financial models to support strategic decision making
• Conducting detailed financial forecasts to anticipate future financial performance and funding needs
• Overseeing and managing our IT service provider contract and procurement of other key utilities

About you:

This job is for you if you have:

• Experience in a senior financial role
• Strong knowledge of financial forecasting
• Excellent leadership & communication skills
• Knowledge of IT strategy and management of utilities and other contractors 
• Can work collaboratively with senior leaders and support the professional development of others

If you are inspired by our ethos and excited to bring your knowledge and experience to a team that is highly committed to our purpose, we would love to have you on board.

Benefits: Holiday pay, training & development opportunities, life assurance, company pension, health care cash back plan, employee assistance programme, payment for disclosures & PVGs

Application notes

To understand more about the role, please download our Head of Finance job description below.

Please complete the job application form and equal opportunities monitoring form available on our website and return them to: [email protected] 

Closing Date: Wednesday 26th November at 09:00am

We’ll acknowledge all applications and intend to hold first stage interviews on Wednesday 3rd & Thursday 4th December

Second stage interviews should follow on Wednesday 10th December

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