Are you a strategic finance leader with a heart for mission? Do you want your professional expertise to count for something more than the bottom line?

• Oxford-based (Hybrid)
• Circa £70,000 plus excellent benefits

CMS is delighted to be partnering with Charisma Charity Recruitment to recruit an exceptional Director of Finance and Resources to help ensure that extraordinary mission work is sustainable for generations to come.

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), you will provide strategic leadership across CMS’s financial sustainability, organisational infrastructure and central resources. This is a genuinely broad and influential role, covering financial strategy and management, investments, treasury, risk, legal and regulatory compliance, property and facilities, IT and cyber security, and relevant corporate governance. You will also maintain oversight of CMS’s residual pension-related responsibilities following the transfer of its defined-benefit pension liabilities.

You will be a trusted adviser to the CEO, board of trustees and the wider SLT, providing the financial clarity, challenge and confidence that enables CMS to make wise, sustainable decisions in service of its mission. You will lead four direct reports (Head of Finance, Head of ICT, Facilities Manager and Head of Legal) and serve as a director of a number of CMS subsidiary entities.

You will be a qualified accountant with significant senior finance leadership experience, ideally gained within a charity, not-for-profit or values-led organisation. You will bring proven ability to contribute at executive and board level, with strong experience across financial planning, audit, internal controls, management reporting and team leadership.

But this role asks for more than technical expertise. We are looking for someone with the wisdom to balance prudent stewardship with an appropriate appetite for risk, the courage to hold a firm line when necessary, and the humility to lead in a way that enables others to flourish. You will be collaborative, relational and service-oriented, someone who genuinely believes that finance exists to serve mission, not the other way around.

A committed and practising Christian, you will be in sympathy with CMS’s values, our Ethos Statement, and our pioneering, servant-hearted approach to God’s work in the world.

If you would like an informal conversation, please contact Adam Stacey, CEO at Charisma Charity Recruitment, either by email at info@charismarecruitment.co.uk or on 01962 813300.

Closing date

• Please apply by midnight on 5 July 2026
• First stage interviews with CMS: 14 July (online)
• Second stage interviews with CMS: 29 July (in person)

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