Offer summary

Qualifications:

Qualified accountant with at least 5 years post qualification experience., Strong technical background in financial accounting, management accounting, and reporting., Experience in managing complex multi-currency grants portfolios for charities., Advanced MS Excel skills, particularly in financial modeling..

Key responsabilities:

Contribute to the development and implementation of the organisation’s income-generation strategy.

Lead the development of the organisational budget and budgets for donor proposals.

Oversee day-to-day finance operations and produce financial reports for management and stakeholders.

Manage the full grants cycle, ensuring compliance and supporting country offices with financial processes.

Job description

c. £65,000 - £70,000, depending on experience

Remote, UK

12 month FTC

Our partner supports mothers in providing early childhood care and development to their children. They are seeking an Interim Director of Finance to offer a 12 month maternity cover. Your appointment will come at an interesting time, and your leadership will support their expansion plans and new projects, whilst leading on business as usual activities.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development and implementation of the organisation’s scale and income-generation strategy. This includes developing flexible cost models, developing budgets for pilot projects and new projects, and identifying alternate funding opportunities.
Lead in the development of the organisational wide budget, and budgets for donor/funder proposals.
Provide oversight on the organisation’s systems, controls, procedures and policies; ensuring these are robust and strengthening them as required.
Oversee the day-to-day operations of the finance function, and the production of monthly, quarterly and annual financial reports for the management team, donors and the board.
Lead on full grants cycle management from developing budgets for proposals, grants management and compliance, and reporting. This also includes supporting country offices and implementing partners in strengthening their processes and controls, and grants requirements.
Lead in the preparation of statutory accounts for the UK and overseas entities; and lead in the organisational and project audits.
Ensure that the UK and overseas offices remain compliant with tax, legal and regulatory compliance.
Attend trustee and board meetings.

Requirements

Qualified accountant with at least 5 years post qualification experience. Finance leader, with a strong all-round technical background in developing and strengthening controls, financial accounting, management accounting & reporting, forecasting/modelling and offering financial advisory support to the senior leadership team and board of trustees.
Experience in managing a complex multi-currency, muti-year, multi-country grants portfolio and in fund accounting for charities.
Experience of leading the finance function of a charity working internationally.
Advanced MSExcel skills, including a high proficiency in financial modelling.
Wiling to be hands on, working effectively with staff based in overseas and offering guidance and mentoring as required.
Strong communication skills (oral and written) catering to a range of finance and non-finance audiences.
Willing to travel to the overseas offices; there will be at least 2 trips a year.

This is a 12 month fixed-term contract that offers remote working. Please note, that the successful candidate will need to be based in the UK and work from the UK for the duration of the contract, and therefore would need the right to work in the UK.

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