About the organisation
Targeting UK 16-24 year olds who traditionally may experience barriers, discrimination, and lack of opportunities. Coach Core delivers an inclusive and impactful sports coaching apprenticeship that develops the talents of marginalised young people and provides them with a range of qualifications, mentoring and opportunities, instilling vital skills for sport, work and life.
Formed in 2012 after the London Riots and prior to the Olympic Games, it started for 20 young people as a charity programme and has now grown to an independent charity working nationally and supported by many of the sectors largest governing organisations, key Government departments, and a number of corporate supporters.
- Target Audience: 16-to-24-year-olds who face barriers, discrimination, and a lack of traditional opportunities
- Core Approach: Providing inclusive sports based apprenticeships to engage a young persons passion whilst also supporting employers with a new, diverse,and exciting young workforce. We convene the very best training providers and sport for change employers - of all sizes, sports, and nature within the industry ecosystem - and coordinate powerful apprenticeship programmes that embed the multi-award winning framework around the needs of the young people and the area in which they live and work.
- Social Impact: Empowering under-represented youth to become relatable role models who drive positive social and economic change in their local communities. To date, we have supported nearly 1,200 young people, via 250 employer partners in 25 UK regions and cities, with circa 15 million participants positively impacted in the areas that need it most through the additional sport, health and physical activity they can enable.
About the role
Coach Core is at a transformational growth stage. Over the last year, charity income has grown by almost 25%, bucking sector trends in a highly challenging economic climate. The income budget for FY27 is set at £1.58m.
To support this trajectory, we are seeking a Charity Treasurer Trustee who is both operationally focused and governance focused, bringing strategic vision, enthusiasm, and deep financial expertise.
While overall financial matters remain the collective responsibility of all trustees, the Charity Treasurer takes the lead in guiding, advising, and supporting the Board and executive leadership.
We specifically seek someone with professional financial-accounting qualifications and experience to help us enhance our financial governance, assessments, and financial best practices across the charity.
Full details can be found here: https://coachcore.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Coach-Core-Foundation-Trustee-Pack-UPDATED-2026-Charity-Treasurer.pdf
Our ideal candidate
Key Responsibilities of the Charity Treasurer
• Financial Governance & Best Practice Enhancement: Lead on elevating the charity’s financial governance framework, financial risk assessments, internal controls, and adherence to operational
financial systems employed by the charity.
• Strategic Financial Leadership & Viability: Agree and set the overall strategic approach to finances with the CEO and Chair. Monitor and advise on the long-term financial viability and resilience of the
charity, evaluating the financial implications of any new growth or project strategy.
• Audit Committee Chair & Reporting: Chair the Audit Committee (executing actions accordingly with the CEO), present budgets, management accounts, and annual financial statements to the Board, and liaise directly with external auditors on the preparation of annual charity accounts.
• Financial Controls & Accounting Records: Ensure full compliance with charity accounting standards (SORP), ensuring proper accounting records are maintained, and financial resources are controlled,
invested, and economically spent in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Reserves & Risk Management: Lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of the charity's financial reserves policy and financial risk-management processes.
• Staff & Executive Liaison: Maintain active liaison with executive staff responsible for day-to-day financial operations, acting as a supportive mentor, critical friend, and counter-signatory where required.
Person Specification: Experience & Skills
• Professional Accounting Qualification: Hold a recognised professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA) with demonstrable financial-accounting expertise.
• Charity Accounting & SORP: Deep understanding of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) for charities, charity financial regulations, and statutory reporting standards.
• Financial Governance Expertise: Proven experience in building or enhancing robust financial governance frameworks, risk assessments, and internal financial controls within a growing organization.
• Operational & Governance Focus: Ability to balance operational hands-on oversight with high-level strategic governance and board scrutiny.
• Strategic Vision & Analysis: Ability to evaluate financial metrics, budget projections, and strategic growth risks, combining commercial acumen with constructive challenge.
• Collaborative Leadership: Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach, with a commitment to working constructively alongside the Chair, CEO, Board, and finance staff.
What’s in it for you
- Direct strategic impact at a pivotal moment: You aren't just overseeing a static balance sheet—Coach Core is in a high-growth phase and your expertise directly shapes the financial architecture supporting that expansion, something we would be quick recognise and profile accordingly.
- C-Suite & Board leadership experience: You take on a high-profile governance role chairing the Audit Committee and acting as a key strategic partner to the CEO and Board. This opens many doors for our Treasurer within the sports ecosystem and with other key corporate supporters.
- Hands-on mentorship & skill development: It’s a chance to serve as a critical friend and mentor to executive finance staff, sharpening your own coaching, leadership, and non-profit governance skill sets whilst also learning from highly experienced sports based professionals through to diverse, young talent too.
- High-visibility purpose: You get to use your professional qualifications (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) to directly power an organisation delivering tangible social change and opportunities through sport for young people.
- Flexible executive profile builder: It offers a prestigious, highly visible board position with a manageable time commitment (quarterly hybrid meetings in London) and an exec team that respect boundaries and the volunteer nature of this role.
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