• Vacancy ID:
    1025
  • Closing Date: Closing Date:
    04 October 2026
  • All LocationsAll Locations:
    Reading
  • Hours Per WeekHours Per Week:
    35
  • About The Role

  • As Chief Financial Officer, you will be far more than the organisation’s financial leader. As a strategic partner to the CEO, Trustees and Executive Team, you will drive financial strength, operational excellence and long-term sustainability, enabling people with sight loss to live the life they choose.

    Leading a diverse portfolio spanning finance, investments, compliance, procurement, health & safety and business planning, you will steer critical decisions, oversee significant assets and ensure robust governance across the charity. You will champion financial accountability, unlock performance and help shape strategy, investment and change. Balancing strategic vision with operational rigour, you will build high-performing teams, inspire confidence at Board level and ensure every pound, every asset and every decision delivers maximum value.

    Above all, this role calls for a commercially astute leader who combines strong financial acumen and sound judgement with a deep commitment to Guide Dogs’ purpose, ensuring commercial rigour is aligned with its charitable mission.

    Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity, with a commitment to a fair, inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

    If you want to know more about the role or selection process, please contact our Executive Search partners, Green Park, on [email protected]

     
  • About Us

  • Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

    Behind Every Guide Dog Is Someone Like You - We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.

    How to apply

    Further details on the full role are attached below. When you are ready to apply please contact our recruitment partner Green Park, submitted applications to our careers page may not be considered.  Please note - If you are successful you will need to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK, we cannot offer visa sponsorship at this time.

    If you choose to use AI tools to assist in completing your application, please use them appropriately.  We value authenticity. If you want to stand out, using a generic AI-generated response isn’t going to separate you from the crowd. This is your time to shine and showcase your unique skills, personality, and thought processes!  You can find our full statement on the use of AI to complete applications on our careers website.

    Safer recruitment

    Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If you are applying for a disclosure role, please note that you will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check and sign up to the DBS update service.

    At Guide Dogs, we believe in fair and equitable hiring practices. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify an applicant from consideration for a position. Each case will be evaluated individually. We encourage all candidates to disclose relevant information, and we assure you that it will be handled confidentially and fairly.

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