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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Role Overview
As part of the CfA funding, we have an exciting opportunity for a Finance Officer to join GSF. This is a part-time role, based remotely within the UK.
This role will be central to ensuring that all financial aspects of the Communities for Afghans programme are delivered to the highest standards of accuracy, compliance, and transparency. You will oversee budget management, financial reporting, grant payment processes, and fraud prevention measures, ensuring that every pound is spent in line with government and contractual requirements.
You will work closely with other team members, Sponsor Groups, and funders to ensure financial processes are efficient, clear, and fully compliant. This is an opportunity to make a real impact by ensuring that funding reaches Afghan families quickly and appropriately, enabling them to settle into safe homes and begin building their new lives in the UK.
About the Role
As Finance Officer, you will:
· Manage programme budgets, spending, and grant tracking to ensure every aspect of funding is compliant with grant conditions.
· Act as the primary point of contact for Sponsor Groups and internal staff on finance-related queries.
· Maintain meticulous financial records for audit purposes and ensure timely and accurate reporting to funders.
· Implement strong controls and authorisation processes to ensure financial probity.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
The role will involve the following, but is not exhaustive:
Financial Management & Compliance
• Ensure compliance with government grant conditions and all funder requirements.
• Manage the Communities for Afghans programme budget and track expenditure.
• Contract management and compliance monitoring for all funding contracts.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records for audit purposes.
• Arrange deposits for accommodation when required.
Payments & Authorisation
• Design and maintain a clear payment authorisation flow.
• Process payments and invoices efficiently and accurately.
• Require proof of spend / evidence packs from Sponsor Groups using standard templates.
• Process payments to Sponsor Groups only after authorisation.
Monitoring & Fraud Prevention
• Work with the Sponsor Group Relationship Manager and Sponsor Groups to ensure grant funds are used correctly, providing guidance on compliant spending and supporting them to submit evidence packs using standard templates.
• Carry out periodic spot checks and reconciliations of Sponsor Group expenditure to confirm accuracy and transparency.
• Implement fraud controls, such as dual sign-off and audit trails, to safeguard programme funds.
• Provide independent assurance of correct grant usage within six months after the end of the financial year, helping to identify and address any issues proactively.
• Report any significant compliance concerns to the Operations Director and contribute to improving financial processes where needed.
Sponsor Group Support
• Ensure guidance and templates are clear, accessible, and consistent with funder requirements.
Please ensure you include a covering letter as part of your application for this role.
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Actively Interviewing
This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Our partner is a humanitarian organisation working to support communities affected by conflict and violence. They are seeking an interim finance professional to provide hands-on support to the finance team during a busy period. The role will focus on day-to-day accounting, reconciliations, transaction processing and support with income, inter-company and cost recovery processes.
This would suit a part-qualified accountant, experienced Finance Officer or someone qualified by experience who is confident working across reconciliations, journals and transactional finance.
Key responsibilities
- Post transactions accurately to the organisation’s accounting system.
- Ensure bank reconciliations are completed and reconciling items are followed up, including helping to clear a short backlog.
- Reconcile income received against CRM records, ensuring data and details match across both systems.
- Support the reconciliation of inter-company transactions between UK and overseas entities, including helping to clear existing backlog items.
- Work with the Programme Finance Manager on salary and overhead recoveries.
- Prepare and post journals to the accounting system.
- Support the finance team with other accounting, reconciliation and month-end tasks as required.
Person specification
- Part-qualified or QBE professional with experience in an all-round Finance Officer or similar role.
- Strong reconciliation experience, including bank reconciliations and income reconciliations.
- Experience posting transactions and journals to an accounting system.
- Good attention to detail and confidence working with financial data across different systems.
- A practical, organised and hands-on approach, with the ability to work through backlogs and resolve discrepancies.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with finance and programme colleagues.
- Experience in the charity, international NGO or grant-funded sector would be helpful, but is not essential.
Details
- They are seeking someone to start immediately, with the contract is expected to run for approximately 3 months.
- Ideally, the organisation is seeking full-time support. However, they would also consider someone available 4 days per week.
- The role can be delivered largely remotely from the UK. Attendance at the office for induction and occasional meetings would be helpful. Please note, this role requires RTW in the UK.
