Finance & Audit Committee Member
Please note this position is being advertised by Nurole. For full details and to apply, visit the Nurole website.
The Pirbright Institute now seeks a Finance and Audit Committee Member who will bring senior strategic-level experience to complement the expertise which already exists. They will be able to provide scrutiny, guidance, and oversight as The Pirbright Institute continues to ensure its long-term success. They will have a strategic focus whilst having an eye for detail. They will be collaborative, collegiate, decisive, and diplomatic in approach.
The successful candidates will bring senior leadership experience in finance to join the Finance and Audit Committee. The ideal candidate will have operated in senior financial leadership roles and will have experience in the academic, research, Governmental or non-profit sectors to bring an understanding of Pirbright's funding model. Experience of government funding (from either side), as well as grant management experience is highly desirable. Candidates will have worked with external auditors and will have an appreciation for organisations which are highly regulated and audited. Candidates could be a qualified accountant or qualified by experience.
The Institute is open to someone who may not have board experience but has high-level senior management experience and will understand the nuances between an executive role and a non-executive position. The successful candidate will be provided with a comprehensive learning and development programme in addition to the standard induction. It will be important that all successful candidates have the time to commit to the induction and the role.
Above all, candidates will be committed and aligned with Pirbright's mission to be the world's leading innovative centre for preventing and controlling viral diseases of livestock.
Role specification
This role is a co-opted role on the Finance and Audit committee and it is not a Trustee Director position. This person will be responsible for:
- Monitor the integrity of the Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year and recommend to the board on any significant financial reporting issues and judgements
- Review and agree the audit of internal processes and controls
- Recommend the appointment of external auditors
- Work with Risk and Assurance Committee to monitor and challenge strategic risks
- Report to the Board of Trustee Directors on the budget process and on overall financial performance and mechanisms to achieve the annual budget
- Provide input to other key subjects reviewed by the Finance and Audit Committee such as government funding of science, technology and people and organisation
Board composition
Further details of the governance at The Pirbright Institute can be found here.
Diversity
The Pirbright Institute welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Given the current balance on the Board and its Sub-Committees, applications from women and those from an ethnic minority groups or other protected characteristic group would be particularly welcome to apply.
Terms of appointment
This is an unpaid position but the Committee Member can claim out of pocket expenses incurred in travelling to meetings. The Finance and Audit Committee meets three times per year (via Teams or in person), for approximately two to fours hours, during normal office hours.
Location: Candidates can be based anywhere in the UK as long as they can attend meetings in person.
To arrange an informal conversation or in case of any other queries, please contact Brigitte.Stundner@nurole.com.