We are looking to appoint an experienced Office Manager/Receptionist to join the Executive’s Office of Samaritan’s Purse International (SP) and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA). 

This role is suited to an enthusiastic individual with a positive attitude and an ability to work flexibly, both as part of a team and on own initiative. As Office Manager/Receptionist you will be a first point of contact for all visitors and will ensure all day to day reception housekeeping is maintained to a professional standard, you will manage the main SP and BGEA switchboards, and carry out a variety of administrative duties on behalf of the Executive Office. Previous experience of facilities management is desirable.

Duties will include:

• Ensuring the office facilities are run smoothly and efficiently and are improved to provide an excellent working environment. 
• Facilities management of the office infrastructure including the building, telephones (programming, voicemail, extension list, supplier negotiation), equipment, office services (cleaning, garden, post etc.) and provision of catering.
• Responsible for collating the Start the Week prayer submissions 
• Responsible for delegated Health and Safety matters in Buckhurst Hill office facilities
• Responsible for ensuring co-ordination of Staff Away Days, all staff meetings, cover at Buckhurst Hill during holidays.
• To be on call in the event of an office emergency, where attendance to the Buckhurst Hill office may be required at short notice
• Provide assistance to the Executive Director in their role of running the BGEA and SP organisations, particularly taking responsibility for some cross-organisation projects.
• Daily use of Microsoft packages, Outlook, PowerPoint and office equipment
• Monitor cost and reduce overheads through greater efficiency in your areas of responsibility
• Constantly seek new ways of working to improve efficiency through the use of alternative suppliers and new technology within your own role
• Ensure that delegated projects are managed efficiently and with a good spirit
• Organise meetings/conferences/conference calls, provide agendas/directions to attendees, when required

Due to the nature and context of this post the successful candidate will need to be a committed Christian, able to fully commit to our Statement of Faith.

Please apply with CV and cover letter stating why you are interested in this position.

Named after the light-giving spell in Harry Potter, Lumos is an international children’s organisation founded by J.K. Rowling in 2005. We have a bold mission: to have a world without institutions and orphanages by 2050. Research shows the dramatic harm that institutional care causes to children and the proven benefits of the alternatives: community and family care. Lumos tackles the root causes of family separation – poverty, trafficking and discrimination – and transforms care systems around the world. We speak up on behalf of children trapped in institutions and reunite them with their families. And we change education, health and social care systems so every child can thrive.

THE POSITION

This is an exciting time for Lumos as we consolidate our strategies to gain momentum.  We are looking for people to join us in this transformation. The Grants Manager will provide expertise and effective support in the management of the financial aspects of all Lumos grants globally, involving some international travel.

You will have a graduate degree and will either be a fully qualified accountant or qualified by experience.  You will have a comprehensive understanding of managing finances in an International NGO which operates within complex, multi-donor and multi country programmes.  It is imperative that you have the experience of providing field teams with grant finance support and capacity building according to their needs. 

The ideal candidate will have:

• The ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Project planning and time management
• A positive and can-do approach
• Be self-starter, able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Excellent communications skills and spoken/written English
• Strong inter-personal skills exhibited with colleagues, partners and donors
• Willingness and flexibility to travel, sometimes at short notice

THE LOCATION

Our newly refurbished office is based in the City core of London with underground and mainline stations Monument, Cannon Street, Bank and London Bridge all within a 5min walk. Bike storage is also available. The local area offers a diverse range of amenities, cafés and restaurants with Leadenhall market, Borough market and the Royal Exchange located nearby.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:

• 25 days of paid holidays
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Life Assurance and Pension Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme, Season ticket loan scheme and Childcare Vouchers
• Dynamic, interesting environment
• Regular staff social events and activities

If you are committed to protecting and empowering the world’s most vulnerable children, join us.

For more information please see the job description, available on our website.

Closing Date: Monday 23rd September 2019 (midnight)

Right to Work:

If you do not already have the right to work in the UK, please think carefully before applying. This is because even if the role is sufficiently skilled to qualify for sponsorship, we will be unable to sponsor you if there is a suitably qualified settled worker available to fill the role (this is known as the ‘resident labour market test’) unless you are currently in the UK and your immigration status and qualifications mean that the resident labour market test will not apply in your case.

Lumos is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and criminal records checks where legally permitted.

Harris Hill are recruiting for a Director of Finance on a 3 day a week basis, for this well-established Charity based in Sussex

Salary: 55,000pa Pro Rata
Location: Sussex
Day: 3 days a week, with 1 day working from home if required

The Director of Finance will focus on ensuring that the charities Finance and IT services deliver its mission and achieve its strategic goals. Reporting directly to the CEO and as part of the Senior Management Team, the post-holder will play an important role in the leadership and management in helping deliver their ambitious strategy to 2021 and beyond.

The Director of Finance is responsible for the preparation of all financial information, relating to strategic projections, annual planning, budgeting and statutory accounts, monthly management accounts, audit processes and ensuring adequate financial controls and governance are in place including in our overseas programmes (this may require some international travel). They will contribute to risk management and will manage a small finance and administration team.

The Person
The successful candidate will be a dynamic leader with strong programmes experience who is CCAB qualified (or QBE) with experience of producing accounts compliant with the Charities SORP and with managing restricted funding.

The Service Charge and Rents Manager will support the Management Accounting function of the organisation with in the Service Charge Team of one of the UK's biggest housing organisations.

Client Details

The organisation manages nearly 4000 homes and is building more in order to grow the size of the organisation.

Description

The Service Charge and Rents Manager will be responsible for the following duties

• Update and maintain all ledgers.
• Assist with the annual service charge budgets.
• Prepare Monthly Reports for Leasehold officers

Profile

The successful Service Charge and Rents Manager will have experience in reconciliations and understanding of management accounts.

Job Offer

A salary of between £43,000 and £48,000 plus benefits.

Want to work for one of the UK's best-known charities and enhance your CV? Have you got proven experience in a financial accounting role and have you led year end? Would you be confident managing a team of five? If yes - this could be your next role!

This permanent Financial Controller is for a leading UK charity with a turnover of over £100 million and has been established for more than 100 years now. This is a brilliant opportunity for either someone with previous charity experience or someone keen to gain experience in this sector.

Main responsibilities of the Financial Controller will be:

• Lead the financial accounting team providing direction, support and supervision always.
• Drive improvements across financial accounting processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness always.
• Lead on investment decisions, looking at risk, liquidity and return.
• Advise finance and non-finance staff across the organisation on technical financial issues and build strong relationships across the charity.
• Coordinate the year end process, audit process and stay up to date with accounting policies.
• Be responsible for the forecasting and monitoring of cash flow.
• Ensure compliance with income tax, VAT and corporation tax.

This position is based in central London, reports into the Head of Finance and will manage a driven and high performing team. As you will be leading an extremely competent team this position requires strong management skills and the ability to get the best out of highly capable individuals.

The successful candidate will:

• Be a qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA, or equivalent).
• Have proven management experience.
• Have proven financial accounting experience, including leading on the year end process.
• Have excellent communication skills.

Although not essential the Hiring Manager is keen to see candidates from an audit background.

If you feel this post could be of interest to you then please do not delay in applying.

This Payroll & Benefits Assistant role is working for a professional membership body based in the City of London.

Working as part of the finance team and reporting to the Finance Manager your duties as the Payroll and Benefits Assistant will include;

• Providing payroll and benefits advice to all employees
• Maintaining and inputting all relevant payroll change information
• Process flexible benefits and relevant schemes
• Produce monthly variance reports for the HR team
• Participate and assist in the completion of year end reports, submission of annual expenses and P11D's
• Sending monthly RTI reports to the HMRC

Applicants with a proven track in payroll administration of 500+ staff who have excellent attention to detail must not hesitate in applying for this role. An up to knowledge of payroll legislation is essential as is prior experience of payroll system.

If you're immediately available Benefits and Payroll Assistant and can start a new role asap than you must apply by sending your CV to [email protected]

Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Manager

Migraine is the third most common disease in the world.  Millions of people across the UK are living with the condition right now, and it is ruining far too many lives.

The Migraine Trust has been investing in migraine research, providing high-quality, evidence-based information and support, and campaigning for change for nearly 55 years. 

We are now the largest migraine charity in the UK, but with the arrival of a new CEO in March 2019 we are starting to set out new plans to reach more people affected by migraine, involve more people, help more people, and improve more people’s lives. 

We need an outstanding fundraising function to be the engine for that ambition.

We are looking for a new Fundraising and Supporter Engagement Manager to lead our three-person Fundraising Team and transform our charity’s fundraising activities.

We want to grow the number of people supporting our charity from just over a thousand currently to many thousands over the next five years.  We want the Fundraising Team to use as many effective, innovative and engaging fundraising approaches as possible to get us there, while delivering an amazing experience for our donors.

We are looking for someone very special who even at the end of their stellar career will still look back with huge pride at how their achievements enabled our charity to help improve thousands more lives. 

This person will be an outstanding fundraising all-rounder with strategic vision, creativity, limitless enthusiasm and determination, and the ability to not only inspire and lead their own Fundraising Team brilliantly well, but also to work collaboratively and effectively with other teams from across our charity as well.

If that’s you, in return we offer a competitive salary and generous employer pension; an informal, family-friendly and inclusive culture in a newly refurbished central-London office; an absolute commitment to your personal development; and the opportunity to work with some of the most passionate and ‘can do’ people in the charity world.

We want to help you to do amazing things, we want you to be as ambitious for yourself as you are for our charity, and we want you to have fun and challenge yourself at work.

If you’re interested, please send your CV and a cover letter (two sides of A4 max) outlining why you want this job and why you think you would be right for it.  The deadline for all applications is Sunday 6 October 2019.  Interviews will be on Tuesday 22 October 2019 at The Migraine Trust.

Interim Accounts Payable with Oracle experience of one year.

Responsibilities

• Payment runs every day
• Oracle experience in an Accounts Payable environment is essential.
• Other duties include Supplier approvals, other payment methods, answering internal queries re invoice payments and creating new procedures.
• Our client is moving to a new AP workflow system and have an extensive backlog of invoices – the successful candidate will be assisting with implementing this new system and the backlog is a bit of a project for this person.

Strong Accounts Payable experience and Oracle recent Oracle experience are essential for this role.

275/day Umbrella for a one-year interim assignment

Cochrane’s 11,000 members and over 68,000 supporters come from more than 130 countries, worldwide. Our volunteers and contributors are researchers, health professionals, patients, carers, and people passionate about improving health outcomes for everyone, everywhere. Our global independent network gathers and summarizes the best evidence from research to help you make informed choices about treatment and we have been doing this for 25 years.

We are looking for an exceptional professional to lead our Human Resources function within the People Services Department.  Reporting to the Head of People Services, your role will involve:

• working with other senior People Services team members to produce and implement a Cochrane People Strategy that complements Cochrane’s organizational Strategy;
• delivering HR expertise across the full generalist remit including recruitment, reward, organisational development, change management, employee engagement, employee relations and L&D;
• Provision of first-class HR transactional services which are highly regarded by end users

If you are CIPD level 7 qualified; have led an HR function in a similar-sized organisation with a complex international footprint; are familiar with expert knowledge workers who are a mixture of employees, consultants and secondees, have a ‘can do’ attitude and are in sympathy with our organizational aims then we would like to hear from you.  In return, we can offer you a stimulating, highly collegiate, work environment with plenty of scope to make your own mark.

Head of Financial Analysis and Planning 

Position: Head of Financial Analysis and Planning 
Location: WC 1N, Central London 
Job type: Full Time, Permanent 
Hours: 37.5 hours per week 
Salary: £Competitive 
Benefits: 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, generous pension scheme, flexible working, discounted season ticket loan and many more! 

Closing date: 9am on Thursday 3 October 2019 

About the role: 

This role will be pivotal in ensuring the organisation can reach its full potential using financial analysis and planning to inform proactive decision making. 

Our client are looking for someone who continually seeks to improve financial performance, by using analysis of data and insights, whilst understanding the wider organisational context. Working collaboratively across the charity to provide support and guidance. 

About the Team: 

This is an exciting time to join the Finance team who are making substantial enhancements to improve the financial performance of the charity through transparency, reporting and insight. 

About you: 

You will be an exceptional communicator with the ability to not only analyse and model financial data, but to translate it for non-financial colleagues, using a variety of methods. You will be able to support and challenge in a collaborative manner to ensure the best outcome for the charity. 

Specifically, you will have: 

- Experience of financial analysis and modelling. 
- Experience of Business Partnering. 
- A commercial mindset. 

The ideal candidate will also have: 

- Leadership experience. 
- Experience of Agresso and / or Salesforce. 
- Some charity experience, although this is not essential. 

About the Charity 

Every day brings new challenge. Every day, over 600 seriously ill children from across the UK arrive for life-changing treatments. Every day, young lives hang in the balance as patients, families and staff battle the most complex illnesses. And every day, the brightest minds come together to achieve pioneering medical breakthroughs that change the lives of thousands of children – and change the world. This extraordinary hospital has always depended on charitable support to give seriously ill children the best chance to fulfil their potential. Without donations, Our client can’t help fund ground-breaking research, advanced equipment, child and family support services, and the rebuilding and refurbishment of wards and medical facilities. Their staff help to raise these vital funds for the hospital. A better future for seriously ill children starts with you. 

Recently awarded with a ‘Best Companies 2-star accreditation' and placed number 17 on the 2019 Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit Companies list - our client offer a range of attractive benefits including; a flexible approach to working, 30 days holiday, life assurance, enhanced employer pension contributions, and a discounted season ticket loan. 

How to Apply: 

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete. You are encouraged to include a cover letter with your application, and should refer to the ‘Application and Interview FAQs’ on the career section of our website before you apply. 

Applications will be reviewed on an on-going basis and we reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date, should a suitable applicant be found. Therefore, you are encouraged to apply right away, to avoid disappointment. 

Due to the large number of applications our clientreceive, they are unfortunately only able to inform shortlisted candidates of the outcome of their application. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. If your application is not successful, we hope that you will not be discouraged and will still apply for other suitable vacancies in the future. 

You may have experience of the following: Finance Manager, Head of Finance, Accountant, Qualified Accountant, Financial Controller, Senior Finance Assistant, Senior Accounts Assistant, Management Accountant, Commercial Accountant, etc. 

Ref: 88905

General Manager – StreetVet

Salary:  £35k - £40k p.a. ( inclusive of London weighting) dependent on experience + benefits

Location: Battersea (some UK travel required)

Holiday: 25 days per year plus national holidays

Reporting to: Board of Trustees

Direct reports: Operations Manager and non-operational volunteers

Please note: this role is being advertised as full time permanent (37.5 hours per week) however for the right candidate StreetVet will consider a part time role at a minimum of 3 days per week pro rata. Please indicate in the application form if you are seeking a part time role.

About StreetVet

StreetVet is an award winning RCVS registered practice delivering high quality, free veterinary care to the pets of homeless people across the UK.  

Born in 2016, StreetVet was inspired by the incredible bonds that exist between those who are homeless and their pets, and StreetVet vets and nurses, working with outreach organisations, are now in multiple locations across England every week providing care and support.  

Since the organisation’s inception we have helped care for hundreds of dogs (some cats and a rabbit!). We have vaccinated and microchipped; treated for fleas and protected against lungworm; prescribed pain relief and helped fight infections; performed surgeries; and sometimes just sat and listened.  And we want to do more.

Our Top Priorities

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic General Manager to work with the Founders and Board of Trustees to help lead and take this high profile and growing national charity to the next step in realising their ambition, whilst embedding good governance, project management and strengthening the charity’s financial position.

Broad Description of Role

• Work with the Board of Trustees to develop and deliver StreetVet’s vision and strategy

• Develop the culture and team capabilities to meet our ambitions

• Develop and implement a fundraising strategy for the organisation to strengthen our financial sustainability, including maintaining existing donors and developing new funding streams

• Ensure there is timely, accurate financial and management information available and monitored to ensure financial transparency, compliance and security.

• Lead the development of the organisation’s budget and operating plans

• Embed sound project management and be responsible for creating an efficient supporting infrastructure for volunteers including office space, IT, data protection, communications, etc.

• Develop and oversee the implementation of organisation-wide policies

• Measure and report on the effectiveness and impact of operational delivery

• Manage all aspects of a small but rapidly growing high-profile charity.

Who we’re looking for - knowledge and experience

• Experience of working at a senior level within the Third Sector

• Evidence of experience within the range of business functions and systems, including areas such as strategic development and planning, human resources, budgeting, business analysis, finance, policy development, IT and legal

• Fundraising, preferably with at least one area of specialism from major donor, community or individual fundraising

• Experience of marketing, PR, social media and brand management

• Experience of setting and managing budgets

• Ability to lead and develop teams

• Experience of recruiting, training and managing staff and volunteers

• Chairing effective meetings

• Experience of risk management

Attributes:

Leadership

Integrity

Interpersonal skills

Written and oral communication skills, including public speaking

Time management and personal motivation, and ability to work flexibly with a small fast growing organisation

Belief in the vision, mission and values of StreetVet

How to apply:

If you are interested in joining StreetVet please download the application form on our website and complete and submit by 1 October 2019

Procurement and Contracts Business Partner

£50,000 - £54,000 + Benefits

SE London

For a Social Housing organisation based in South East London, we're recruiting a Procurement and Contracts Business Partner. This role will support the Head of Procurement in the delivery of the Procurement Strategy and action plan and will partner with Heads of Service and Business Managers to improve procurement and contract management, ensuring legislative requirements are met and that value for money is achieved. Managing a Procurement and Contracts Officer, this role will play a key role in delivering the procurement strategy and fine-tuned procedures throughout the organisation in accordance with the standing orders, UK Law and EU regulations.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide procurement advice, support and challenge to senior leaders, working with Heads of Service to improve procurement and contract management
• Play key role in delivery of procurement strategy
• Apply market research, market analysis, spend analysis and credit checks
• Ensure tender documents are fit for purpose and ensure EU procurement processes and managed using e-tendering
• Ensure corporate contract register and procurement plan is maintained
• Work with senior leaders to ensure processes are streamlined to reduce costs
• Advise on internal approvals and governance arrangements
• Contribute to development and maintenance of guidance notes, tools and templates
• Deputise for the Head of Procurement as and when required
• Provide support, advice and guidance on the development of supplier relationships
• Support the resolution of disputes and contribute to the formulation and review of procurement policies and strategies
• Manage, motivate and coach a Procurement and Contract Support Officer

What you'll offer us:

• MCIPS qualification with significant experience of procurement and contract management in a wide range of categories across supplies, works and services contracts
• Experience of public sector procurement is essential as is OJEU experience
• Social housing experience is preferred
• Experience of developing and implementing procurement strategy and governance
• Experience of leading and managing staff

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FP&A Analyst, up to £47,000 + Benefits

For a global organisation, we are recruiting for a Finance Analyst - Reporting and MI top report to the Head of Planning and Reporting. The Finance Analyst will be responsible for all aspects of management information and will align the different aspects of reporting and analysis. This role will business partner with internal customers and will need someone who has experience of management reporting in a Group / Head Office environment and who can deliver to tight deadlines. The Finance Analyst - Reporting and MI will need to understand how to operate in a complex international structure and across different disciplines and times zones.

Main Duties:

• Provision of comprehensive financial and management reporting to key users of financial information in the UK, Regions and globally
• Produce monthly management packs to the senior leadership team, CEO and externally on a monthly basis, communicating performance
• Working with Shared Service Centre (India) to support and improve monthly close processes
• Financial analysis and iterations to support ad-hoc and regular business demand, identifying trends
• Manage global reporting timetable along with global planning departments
• Work with Head of Planning and Reporting to ensure management information is robust and useful
• Develop and improve monthly / quarterly reporting of balance sheet, cash flow and FX
• Produce financial and management accounts and analysis

Person Specification:

• Qualified Accountant with substantial experience of financial planning and analysis and MI reporting
• Excellent analytical skills with experience of working in complex international structures at a Group level and across difference disciples and time zones
• Financial Planning and Analysis experience including management information reporting
• SAP experience with advanced Excel development and modelling exposure
• Experience of developing and optimising SAP accounting and planning applications
• People skills to implement change programmes

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This London University are looking for a newly qualified accountant from accountancy practice to join their extremely high-performing and high calibre finance team.

Client Details

This organisation is a well-established university based in London. Through a mixture of tuition fee and commerical funding streams, they run a number of courses, research and educational initiatives. Having been through an exciting period of change the organisation is looking for individuals from accountancy practice who are passionate about education and looking to work in a fast paced, challenging environment where there is scope to learn, develop and progress.

Description

• Group statutory reporting and support of the annual audit process
• Working across the organisation as a technical finance expert
• Maintaining and developing good working relationships and effective communications with all stakeholders both internally and externally
• Budgeting and forecasting exposure
• Exposure to key projects such as aquisitions and initiatives to diversify revenue streams

Profile

You will be a fully qualified accountant (ACA or equivalent) with strong technical finance capabilities that can be evidenced through experience. You will have trained with a top 50 accountancy practice firm and have a strong understanding of the audit process and dealing with complex financial reporting. The ability to deal with extremely senior, high profile stakeholders both externally and internally is absolutely crucial.

Job Offer

Salary - £45,000 to £50,000

30 Days Holiday

Excellent Pension

Flexible Working