Chief Financial Officer

LBTC is a values‑led and award‑winning, specialist organisation that uses cross‑disciplinary approaches to transform how fairness and inclusion challenges are understood, addressed, and solved in child and family welfare. By developing solutions that are both integrated and practical, we help organisations respond to the complexity of real‑life systems and create lasting, meaningful change. Our work helps leaders and services address complex fairness issues, creating systems that work better for all children and families, not just some. We are a small, high‑impact organisation. Everyone at LBTC works at the intersection of evidence, values, and practice. Our CFO is no exception: this is a role where financial leadership is understood as a strategic act, and where the way decisions are made matters as much as the decisions themselves.

Commitment to Fairness

A substantial portion of our work focuses on racism, marginalisation, and discrimination. We strongly encourage applications from people from marginalised backgrounds, including those who identify as racially minoritised, care‑experienced or LGBTQ+.

The Opportunity

This is a rare opportunity to be the senior financial voice in an organisation whose work is explicitly about making systems fairer. As LBTC's Chief Finance Officer, you will work directly with the CEO to ensure the organisation is financially resilient, strategically informed, and operationally sound — enabling LBTC to do more of the work that matters. This is a part‑time role (0.25 FTE / 9.375 hours per week). At this scale, we are looking for someone who brings strategic financial thinking and senior leadership experience, while also being willing and able to own day‑to‑day financial operations hands‑on. You will not be managing a finance team beneath you; your expertise is the finance function. LBTC is at a pivotal moment. We are growing, exploring new income streams, and strengthening our infrastructure for the next phase of our work. The CFO will play a central role in shaping what that next phase looks like financially, including how we price our work, how we fund growth, and how we make sound decisions under uncertainty.

What you’ll do

• Be LBTC's senior financial voice — partnering directly with the CEO to turn numbers into strategy
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning to keep LBTC growing and financially resilient
• Model and evaluate new income opportunities, shaping how we price and sustain our work
• Own the day‑to‑day finance function hands‑on — reporting, cash flow, payroll, VAT, and month‑end
• Ensure our financial systems, controls, and processes are accurate, compliant, and built to scale

About You

You will bring:

• Senior financial leadership experience in an SME, consultancy, start‑up, or scale‑up environment
• A track record of hands‑on financial operations — you are comfortable owning payroll, VAT, month‑end, and reporting directly
• Experience diversifying income, modelling new revenue streams, or securing funding
• Strong commercial acumen — including costing and pricing project or consultancy work
• Proficiency with Xero or comparable cloud accounting software, and solid double‑entry bookkeeping foundations
• The ability to communicate financial complexity clearly to non‑financial colleagues and stakeholders
• A genuine commitment to fairness, equity, and values‑led practice — this is not a box to tick at LBTC, it is the work

A professional accountancy qualification (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, AAT, or equivalent) is desirable. Equivalent experience without formal qualification is welcomed, please tell us about it in your application.

Contract: 6 months fixed term to permanent contract

Hours: 9.37 hours/week (0.25 FTE), Monday -Thursday

Location: Remote working with infrequent in‑person days in London

Work pattern: Flexible hours, Monday to Thursday. LBTC is not open on Fridays.

Benefits: 28 days annual leave, 5% pension, family‑friendly culture, strong staff wellbeing and professional development culture. Values‑led environment.

Recruitment process

We are committed to a fair, structured, and transparent recruitment process. Here is what to expect:

1. Application: Submission of CV and written answers to 3 questions on Indeed portal. DEADLINE: 9am, Wednesday 8th April 2026.
2. Stage 1 interview (Tuesday 14th to Thursday 16th April): A virtual structured competency‑based interview with the CEO and one panel member. We will send you the interview structure and format in advance.
3. Stage 2 interview (Wednesday 29th April): A virtual panel interview with a minimum of three people. This includes a case study exercise based on a financial data pack we will send you 48 hours in advance, and a short live financial exercise on the day. We will share the format in advance.
4. References and due diligence: We will approach referees for our preferred candidate after Stage 2. At least one should be a line manager who has directly observed your financial work. Only applications with both a CV and 3 answered questions submitted will be considered.