Treasurer

Job Description

Adopted 18th July 2010

The role of Treasurer includes all the duties of a director.

In addition the treasurer is expected to ¹:

• Check that Autscape has enough funds to meet its present and future needs and provide general financial information to the board regularly
• Provide specific financial information to the board on request
• Take the lead role in ensuring that Autscape's annual accounts are prepared and submitted promptly to Companies House and the Charities Commission in accordance with legal requirements
• Find and liaise with suitable accountants and review this relationship regularly
• Manage the process of independent auditing of the accounts if required
• Managing expenses claims and other disbursements and maintaining Autscape's financial records
• Ensuring efficient collection of funds due to Autscape including liaising with the registrar to manage the collection of fees from participants
• Regularly review and manage access arrangements for Autscape's bank account(s) and other financial arrangements
• Contributing to the fundraising strategy of the organization
• Making a formal presentation of the accounts at the annual general meeting and drawing attention to important points in a coherent and easily understandable way
• Inform themselves about company and charity law relating to financial reporting and management

Treasurer person specification

• Commitment to Autscape
• Willingness and ability to devote significantly more time and effort than a typical director
• Ability² to produce documents by a required time
• Ability² to maintain accurate financial records using the accruals method and in a suitable format for the production of annual accounts
• Good numeracy and knowledge of basic bookkeeping/accountancy skills
• Ability² to store and post documents reliably
• Experience of and/or willingness to learn about relevant requirements of company and charity law
• Preparedness to make unpopular recommendations to the board when necessary to protect Autscape's financial stability

Footnotes

1. Specific tasks may be delegated by the treasurer to others but it remains the responsibility of the treasurer to oversee these areas.
2. It is recognised that an autistic person may well need support to achieve this but a potential treasurer will need to be confident of their ability to access suitable support reliably.