A charity are recruiting for an Interim Head of Finance

Your new company
A high profile charity based in Central London.

Your new role
Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you will be responsible for the smooth running of the finance function and the development of the financial strategy of the organisation. Anticipated duration is for five months+.

What you'll need to succeed
You will be a qualified Accountant and an experienced Head of Finance with charity background.

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The opportunity to add value within a vibrant organisation.

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King’s Global Health Partnerships are working alongside partners in four African countries to improve healthcare outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to effective financial planning and reporting, carry out financial analysis to inform key business decisions and drive process/reporting improvements. The postholder will provide financial management to a portfolio of donor funded projects, and in particular, Prepared-for-Practice, a £3m, 5-year project funded by the Department for International Development’s Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform (SPHEIR) fund. 

In addition, the postholder will play a role in the preparation of management accounts, annual budgets and re-forecasts, working closely with budget-holders, reporting and reviewing actual and forecast performance at both detailed and summary level. They will also work collaboratively to provide a service for routine and ad-hoc finance requirements. Overall the postholder will be responsible for:

• Meeting donor financial deliverables, including reports, forecasts, reprofiles, audits

• Supporting budget holders with accounting, budgeting and forecasting to ensure sound financial management

• Providing support and capacity building to project partners to ensure they are able to meet financial requirements

The post sits with the King’s Global Health Partnerships team in Denmark Hill, and will work closely and receive support from the University’s Management Accounts and Research Management and Innovation Directorate teams.

The role of Finance Manager (Finalist) is to get involved in all aspects of their growing charitable delivery, whilst managing the key finance functions of the organisation to ensure they are efficient, compliant and delivering outstanding customer service to colleagues and stakeholders.

Client Details

The Client is a respected, trusted and expert voice in the sector, and has grown from a team of 3 people and c25 strong team to a thriving £4m turnover organisation within the last decade. This Charitable organisation aims to support people with a certain type of disability.

Description

The key responsibilities of the Finance Manager (Finalist) include but are not limited to:

• Managing the finance function
• Line managing a finance officer
• Lead on management accounting
• Project manage and lead on system improvements
• Lead on statutory accounting
• Lead on the budgeting process and business partnering
• Manage the relationship with the outsourced payroll provider

Profile

The successful Finance Manager (Finalist) must be at the final stage of their professional qualification either ACCA or CIMA as well as having relevant experience in a similar role using SORP accounting.

The Finance Manager (Finalist) must also have very strong communications skills both written and spoken, be confident and articulate and able to explain finance to non-finance budget holders.

Job Offer

On offer for the successful Finance Manager (Finalist) is a salary of up to £48,000 per annum as well as a comprehensive benefits package including a season ticket loan, Excellent parental leave benefits and childcare voucher scheme, Flexible working arrangements, a 10% non contributory pension and more.

A large professional membership charity & awarding body is seeking an experienced and fully-qualified Financial & Reporting Manager for a permanent role based in central London.

As part of an organisational wise transformation, this role has been newly created. The Financial Reporting Manager is responsible for all the key financial reporting and modelling, implementing new applications and improvements to help the business better understand performance and deliver against targets.

Key duties involve:

- Delivery of accurate, timely and relevant month-end accounts, budgets, forecasts and supporting management information, collaborating with the finance team and business managers, working autonomously with a direct reporting line to the Financial Controller

-Making significant developments to the reporting to improve insight and understanding of performance and business drivers, for example by adopting activity-based costing principals, as well as driving efficiencies into the process. This will include implementing a new application to deliver rolling forecasts and transform the budgeting and reporting process.

-Developing financial models in collaboration with the Finance business partnering team, to make pricing decisions, approve business cases for development projects and returns on investment. Working closely with the business data teams, you’ll be investigating how AAT can best utilize Microsoft BI or other applications to combine both financial and volume data.

-Full responsibility for the consolidated monthly management accounts

Experience required:

-Fully-qualified ACCA, CIMA, or ACA essential

-Demonstrable experience in financial reporting, building business models and providing insightful financial analysis.

-Advanced Excel user with experience of reporting, forecasting and business analytic applications and be knowledgeable of good practice and techniques.

-You will have strong communication and presentation skills with an eye for good design, with the ability to interpret data and present effectively to non-finance managers.

-Advanced experience of charity SORP accounts and completing complex management accounts

-Advanced Excel

The salary for this role is £50-55k.

Please send your CV for immediate consideration.

A world renowned London University are looking to recruit a dynamic and engaging Finance Analyst for a 12 month maternity cover contract. You must be a graduate and part-qualified accountant, have experience of working in a business facing role, have the ability to produce effective financial and non-financial management reports, analyses and recommendations, have Strong Excel skills, Good communication skills and knowledge of budgeting and forecasting.

Specifics include:

• Support the annual budget and quarterly forecast processes
• Act as assistant business partner for the assigned apartments, providing high quality advice and guidance on all aspects of finance
• Manage accurate headcount reporting, tracking of student numbers, the completion and loading of cost templates, and other support
• Support the delivery of regular management reporting for assigned areas and assist these teams
• Assist in the maintenance of the cost centre hierarchy, and set up new cost centres when required

You must be available at short notice in order to be included.

Harris Hill are recruiting for a Head of Finance for this environmental charity based in Central London on 4-days week

Location: Central London
Salary: 55,000pa Pro Rata - 4 days a week

The Role and Responsibilities
The Head of Finance is responsible for financial planning, control and reporting across the organisation, and for leading the changes to our financial systems and processes to support the Charity's strategy. The post holder will work closely with the CEO, COO and the Finance and Risk Committee to provide strategic financial advice and oversight. The role holder will also manage the Senior Digital & Business Intelligence Officer who is responsible for day-to-day accounts payable and internal reporting.

The Head of Finance and Operations will lead on the production of annual budgets, forecasting, management accounts, financial submissions and the annual accounts for auditing. The role will also involve risk management and ensuring compliance with the CHARITY's Charter, CHARITY Regulations and with charity and company law.

Essential
- Chartered Member of a relevant financial body (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Senior-level experience in financial management in the voluntary/charitable sector, including experience of producing annual returns, annual accounts, complying with SORP, supporting external audits
- Experience of providing financial leadership and oversight in organisations of 2m+
- Good understanding of charity and company finances and relevant legal / regulatory obligation

Finance Manager – Part Time

Are you an experienced manager or supervisor, looking for a part time role leading a small team? Are you keen to work in a small non-profit dedicated to aiding environmental and poverty causes? Are you a finance ‘all rounder’ with exposure to AP, AR and payroll?

This small non profit are seeking a new finance manager to lead an established team of 5 finance officers. The successful candidate will support and develop the team whilst ensuring a high quality level of output is delivered and process happen within the correct timescales.

A formal finance qualification is not a requirement for this role, however the ideal candidate will have an exposure to the principals of Financial Accounting at the level above the team to be able to guide and mentor. This is a part time role, and flexible in terms of both hours and remote working. You will be able to work between 3 and 4 days a week, with core hours on 3 days and weekly flexibility outside that.

The first round of interviews will be taking place during the week commencing the 20th of January, so apply now to be considered. If you would like to find out more you can also contact Emma at Allen Lane for more information.

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1,200 civil society organisations from over 100 countries committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential. Members are based throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas. We share the conviction that every girl has the right to lead the life that she chooses and that, by ending child marriage, we can achieve a safer, healthier and more prosperous future for all.

Girls Not Brides is seeking a Head of Finance, based in London, to lead the financial direction of the charity and oversee all aspects of its financial management. This is an exciting time to join a fast-growing and ambitious international organisation as its work develops and its Finance Team expands.

As a member of the Girls Not Brides management team, the Head of Finance embeds a culture of strong financial management, effective controls and efficient processes within the organisation. You will be expected to provide critical financial information, analysis and insights, and advice and support on financial and strategic management issues, and emerging opportunities and risks, to the CEO, management team and the Board of Trustees.

Reporting to the CEO, this is a key role in the organisation and your responsibilities include:

• Overall responsibility for the development and successful delivery of the finance function and providing successful leadership across the organisation;
• Leading on strategic financial planning and financial management at Girls Not Brides;
• Developing and maintaining effective financial functions including budgeting, management accounts, preparation of annual statutory accounts, and preparation of financial reports to Girls Not Brides funders, potential funders and to the Board of Trustees;
• Collaborating with the Head of Operations to jointly develop core processes across the organisation.

The successful candidate will be fully qualified finance professional with a driven and proactive approach and robust technical skills likely to come from the Charity Sector. You will have a strong sense of commercial acumen and an analytical mind-set. You will possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage and develop staff that you manage and build rapport with a range of finance and non-finance persons across the organisation. You will have significant senior level experience of managing the financial activities of a not-for-profit organisation and will be empowered to develop and embed the right financial systems, processes and controls for Girls Not Brides as it is poised for further expansion.

Recruitment timings:

Application deadline: Sunday 26th January

Shortlisting: week of 27th January

First stage interviews: week of 3rd February

Second stage interviews: week of 10th February

To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to via the link. For an informal discussion regarding the role, please don't hesitate to contact Bryony Feeney via the Allen Lane agency website.

An early application is highly recommended.

• Globally leading research university
• Key finance role within the organisation

About Our Client

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, with 5,000 students and more than 3,000 staff working globally across 150+ countries. The School is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK, and was Times Higher Education University of the Year in 2016.

Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

Research income has grown to more than £180m per year from a variety of national and international funding sources. The infrastructure to support the large and growing funding LSHTM receives is as important as it has ever been. This role will play a key part in maintaining and driving improvement within finance and the wider organisation.

Job Description

• Lead in ensuring the School has an appropriate financial control environment and framework, and processes and systems
• Review and develop all finance-related regulations and policies
• Lead the preparation of the annual financial statements, including planning and execution, and act as the main point of liaison with the School's external auditors.
• Represent the Finance department and the Finance Director on internal committees, working groups and project boards, as required.
• Deputise for the Finance Director in his/her absence.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to staff across the School on taxation matters, particularly VAT, and ensures all statutory taxation returns are completed and submitted.
• Lead and motivate a team to deliver excellent performance within financial accounting, due diligence and insurance
• Develop, manage and maintain productive relationships with all internal stakeholders, including those in the Finance Department and across the School.
• Develop an effective communication strategy to promote the expertise of the Finance Department, key compliance expectations, and ensure new systems and processes are adopted and continually communicated on a regular basis.
• Advise senior Faculty and Department staff on technical financial issues e.g. taxation, accounting treatments, insurance coverage.

The Successful Applicant

You will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with excellent technical finance understanding that can be evidenced through experience. In particular, you will have delivered complex financial statements and been the main point of contact for auditors previously. In addition, you will hold the ability to liaise effectively with non-finance across an organisation and will have experience of working with non-finance to drive and embed change.

You should also be comfortable managing a team and supporting and motivating them to deliver excellent results.

What's on Offer

• Salary up to £70,000
• 36 days Annual Leave
• Excellent pension

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.

Ref Code: MPCY14059945Z

The B Corp Movement

Certified B Corps seek to redefine success in business by putting profit on a par with social and environmental impact. B Corps manage the impact of their entire business through the B Impact Assessment and reach high standards of social and environmental performance.  B Corps also amend their governing documents to consider the impact of their decisions on people and planet.  The B Corp community is a global group of businesses who provide leadership by their commitments to people and planet and create examples of success for others to follow. There are now over 3,100 B Corps in over 65 countries and covering 150 sectors, including Patagonia, The Body Shop, Kickstarter, innocent and Ella’s Kitchen.

B Lab

B Lab was created in 2006 with the mission to inspire and enable people to use business as a force for good. There are B Labs across the globe including Australia, East Africa, mainland Europe and North and South America. B Lab UK is a charity that launched in 2015. Our purpose is to redefine success in business through building a community of engaged businesses, raising awareness of the B Corp movement and championing change in the UK economy. The B Lab UK team is small, friendly, hard-working and committed to changing how business operates.

The role of Finance & Operations Coordinator

B Lab UK has experienced a phase of rapid growth over the last year which will continue into 2020. As the team and our operations grow, this vital new role will provide the finance and operations support to underpin our success.

The Finance and Operations Coordinator will support in the areas of HR, office management and financial bookkeeping. Strong candidates will bring experience in similar roles alongside a demonstrated willingness to get involved with a small and dynamic organisation.

Responsibilities will include:

1. Support on the development and implementation of HR processes and employee onboarding.
2. Oversee and facilitate contracts and relationships with external suppliers (landlords, accountants, insurers, etc.).
3. Develop and maintain team communications and coordination processes.
4. Management of travel and meeting arrangements where needed.
5. Management of the office, including purchases based on office needs.
6. Manage communications with companies regarding financial obligations.
7. Process and administer accounts receivable and payables.
8. Assist with engagement of the B Lab UK Board of Trustees, including preparation of agendas, meetings and minutes.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• 3-5 years’ experience in a finance and/or administrative role
• Experience in bookkeeping and financial administration, including familiarity with annual accounts
• Track record of successful project management
• Familiarity with tech platforms such as Google Suite, Salesforce and Xero

Desirable

• Experience developing and implementing new processes
• Meeting management and facilitation skills
• Experience managing HR processes

Person Specification

• Passionate about the role that business can play in creating the future that benefits all people and the planet.
• Systematic and organised – a finisher of tasks.
• Keen eye for detail and confident in the nitty gritty details of a project.
• A quick learner who can apply good judgement with confidence.
• Self-motivated and structured worker, happy to work independently.
• Highly effective and efficient – as use of time and resources are always limited.

Reports to: Executive Director, B Lab UK

Salary & Benefits:

• £30,000 per annum

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and office closure over Christmas

• Flexible hours and a weekly work from home day

• Volunteer days

B Lab believes an equitable and inclusive work environment and a diverse, empowered team are key to achieving our mission. We’re not looking for candidates who are “culture fits.” We’re looking for candidates who can expand our culture and challenge business as usual. We strive to foster an environment where all staff can bring their whole selves to work, by their own definition, and we strive to provide all candidates with an equitable and accessible recruitment process.

Our partner is a well-respected healthcare organisation using a rigorous approach grounded in research to strengthen healthcare outcomes in Africa. They are seeking an Interim Programmes Officer to maintain the integrity of their accounting & financial management systems, and oversee their internal reporting, and grants compliance and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and maintain integrity of programme-specific accounting, recordkeeping and requests for funds.
• Manage flows of funding to overseas country programmes and partners, and oversee reconciliation of these
• Prepare and consolidate quarterly financial reports and project forecasts.
• Support with the annual budgeting and monitoring process.

Person Specification

• Accountant (qualified or part-qualified), educated to a degree level, with experience in management accounting, reporting, and grants compliance within the INGO sector. Experience of managing DfID grants is highly desirable.
• Advanced MsExcel user with excellent analytical skills
• Strong business partner, able to work cross culturally.
• Self-starter, able to pick things up quickly, manage a varied workload.

Immediate start preferred. This is a full-time position, but they would be open to considering someone able to work 4 days/week. This role is only open to candidates with the right to work in the UK. 

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• Have you worked with an organisation that has experienced significant growth?
• Are you CIPD qualified?

Our client, an international NFP are seeking an experienced HR professional to join them for 6 - 12 months.

This organisation has experienced rapid growth so substantial experience of change is essential, as well is experience of security and risk of regional staff.

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• Do you have experience with a charity/think tank or similar NFP?
• Do you have international and regional experience?
• Have you worked with an organisation that has experienced significant growth?
• Are you CIPD qualified?

Our client, an international NFP are seeking an experienced HR professional to join them for 6 - 12 months.

This organisation has experienced rapid growth so substantial experience of change is essential, as well is experience of security and risk of regional staff.

This is a confidential role so if you have the skills and experience, please call for further information. The organisation might consider someone on a daily rate as well

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My client is an international development charity and a well-known, global brand name. The incredible organisation is looking for an interim Fundraising Finance Manager for a minimum 6 month duration, to lead the Fundraising Finance team through budgeting and day to day activities. Main responsibilities include:

• Supporting the Head of Fundraising Finance in achieving the long-term financial strategy for the Fundraising Department
• Acting as a Finance Business Partner to Directors and their teams within the Fundraising directorate
• Annual budgeting and monthly forecasting
• Preparing accurate and insightful management reports for each fundraising area and the department
• Support the Head of Fundraising Finance to improve the efficiency of reporting process through standardisation and automation
• Managing a team of two Finance Analysts

The successful candidate will:

• Be a qualified Accountant, or qualified by experience
• Have excellent experience in the charity sector and knowledge of SORP
• Be experienced working with Fundraising and have sound knowledge of individual giving and legacies
• Have experience managing a small team