Launde Abbey is recruiting a Finance Manager (3 days per week) to be part of the Senior Management Team. Together with the Operations Manager, the Development Manager and the Deputy Warden, they share responsibility with the Warden for fulfilling the vision, goals and purpose of Launde Abbey as a Christian Retreat House, and as a place of prayer, hospitality, community and sanctuary.
Over the last few years, we have successfully rebuilt Launde Abbey’s finances post-pandemic and have been re-focusing its activities for our current context and to ensure financial sustainability for the future. We have re-established our reserves and our cashflow is strong. We have introduced changes to staff structure, put in place more rigorous working practices and governance procedures, and installed industry-standard software. We are in a good position for a sustainable future. However, there remain a number of projects we’d like to pursue to take our finance function to the next level. The new Finance Manager will be key in taking these projects forward alongside strengthening the financial business-as-usual activities in support of the front-line work of the organisation.
To apply, please email the following to [email protected]
Please note that the Abbey will be closed from 22nd December to 4th January so the mailbox will not be actively monitored during that period.
If you would like a conversation about this role prior to applying, then please email Revd Alison Myers, the Warden, via [email protected] before 21st December to arrange a time to chat.
For over 900 years, the site of Launde Abbey has been a place of prayer and of hospitality, and so it continues today. It is the home of a thriving community into which guests are invited to participate no matter how long or short their stay and, in so doing finding sanctuary, a safe space, a place to rest, reflect and to be.