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ISEAL is looking for an experienced Finance Manager to manage the day-to-day finance function in an international not-for-profit organisation. This includes the management of a small finance team and working closely with the organisation´s management accounting function.
ISEAL is the global membership organisation for sustainability systems and includes many of the most respected sustainability schemes worldwide. ISEAL members cover social and environmental sustainability issues – from labour rights and sustainable livelihoods to biodiversity conservation – and are active across a diverse range of sectors. Find out more on our website www(.)iseal(.)org.
The Finance Manager is involved in all aspects of work of a small finance team of five part time staff, under the oversight of the Director, Finance & Operations.
While there is a separate management accounting role, a part of the responsibility of both the financial accounting and management accounting roles is to support each other where necessary, in order to achieve an even workload and in order to achieve the overall finance team delivery objectives. The management accounting role responsibilities include donor reporting, grant audits, quarterly project reforecasting, supporting programme and project managers with financial information and staff time management, supporting Partnerships manager with proposal budgets and grant income tracking,
The ideal candidate will bring knowledge and experience of managing financial systems and procedures, overseeing delivery of related accounting functions, ideally in a project -based setting, as well as experience in managing and developing direct reports. A flexible and pro-active approach to work, strong interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, both in person and remotely, round off the preferred candidate´s profile.
In return, ISEAL offers involvement in all aspects of the financial management of an international NGO environment, an inspiring insight into the world of sustainability initiatives and a supportive organisational culture. The role suits someone returning to work after family breaks or someone looking to adjust their work life balance and work part time.
Key Responsibilities
Financial accounting
- Oversee and coordinate work of other finance staff on financial data capture, transaction processing, procedures and controls, acting as back up when required
- Own responsibility for accounting system and for the integrity and security of financial processes and controls
- Manage and carry out or oversee all tasks related to day-to-day delivery of the financial accounting function
- Oversee or perform month/quarter-end closing procedures, fixed assets, prepayments, nominal reconciliations
- Prepare quarterly financial accounts and other regular or ad hoc reports for the senior management team and ISEAL’s finance committee
- Coordinate annual budget process and preparation of draft and final budgets for approval
- Manage day-to-day banking relationships, cash flow planning, including movements between currency accounts and foreign exchange processes
- Prepare annual statutory accounts and manage annual organisational audit
- Model key financial figures (reserves, indirect costs, overall financial indicators)
- Fulfil requirements of VAT reporting and compliance with corporation tax reporting requirements
- Ensure compliance with charity accounting requirements
- Deliver financial due diligence checks for new major grantees, member applicants and new significant suppliers
- Contribute to preparation for grant audits
- Facilitate finance team meetings and work planning
Other
- Support and act as back up on management accounting activities
- Line manage Finance Coordinator and Finance Assistant
- Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Working closely with Director, Finance & Operations to manage capacity
- Other tasks as advised by line manager
Experience, knowledge and attributes
- ACA, ACCA or CIMA qualification
- Solid professional work experience in overseeing a finance function, ideally in an international setting using multiple currencies
- Proficiency with Excel and ability to analyse, manipulate and present data to non-finance colleagues
- Ability to respond flexibly to demands of the role and work in a small finance team
- High level of accuracy in own work and ability to check work done by others
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with colleagues, including remotely based individuals, where most interaction will be virtual
- Well-honed interpersonal skills, displaying professionalism, tact and awareness of others, including sensitivity to cultural differences and perceptions
- Excellent organisational and time management skills, with ability to establish priorities for self and others
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Ability to manage and motivate others
Additionally desirable
- Experience with donor reporting and/or financial project reporting
- Experience of using Sage 50 software
- Interest in issues of sustainable consumption and/or environmental issues
Other relevant information
Term:
Initial 12 months contract with view to extend
Salary:
£47 – 52,000 pro rata, depending on experience
Working hours:
Part-time, 3 days (Full time equivalent 37.5 hours per week). Fully flexible working arrangements possible, limited presence in office required with support to work from home available
Location:
Based in ISEAL’s London head office, with a hybrid approach to work. An ability and willingness to work from home is a requirement. Applicants will need to provide evidence that they are entitled to work in the UK
Annual leave:
25 days / year (including office closure between Christmas and New Year)
Ideal start date:
August/September 2022
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My client is a remarkably diverse business that provides a wide variety of services to the local business and residential population. Within this unique organisation, there are a number of charities ranging dramatically in size and independence.
As such my client is looking for an interim Project Accountant to lead on a review of a number of these charities to ensure that full and compliant charity in-year reporting is in place. This will include but not limited to fund accounting, reserves management and treatment of income.
Although professional accounting qualifications are not essential for this role, there is a need for a strong understanding of charity SORP and legislation. Strong communications skills and the need to be comfortable working outside of business as usual are also critical.
This role has been found outside of IR35. My client is currently operating a hybrid working model and there will be a need to be onside 1-2 days a week for face-to-face meetings in their central London office.
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Assistant Management Accountant
We now have a number of exciting opportunities for flexible and proactive individuals to join the charity’s 20+ strong Finance Department.
Position: Assistant Management Accountant
Location: Working principally from home, flexibility will be required for occasional onsite working in Devon, currently estimated to be 1-2 days per week
Hours: Full-time (part-time considered - minimum 21 hours per week)
Salary: £30,000 per annum, plus study support
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: Generous annual leave, pension scheme, Healthshield plan, confidential counselling service, subsidised restaurant, free parking, enhanced maternity/paternity benefits, Life Assurance Scheme, 31 day’s holiday per year, inclusive of the 8 statutory public holidays. This increases by one day each year until a maximum of 34 days is reached.
Closing Date: Sunday 10 July 2022.
The Role
As Assistant Management Accountant in either the Equine Operations and Resources area or the Income and Marketing Communications area (including commercial operations), you will provide support to cost centre managers, together with comprehensive analysis of income/expenditure and will be responsible for monthly accruals and prepayments.
Principal duties and responsibilities within this multifunctional and rewarding role will include the following:
- Assisting in the production of the monthly management accounts, including accruals and prepayments, and writing variance commentary for dedicated cost centres
- Providing a finance business partnering service, giving advice and support to cost centre managers including training and coaching on all aspects of quarterly reforecasting and monthly reporting
- The collation and analysis of high volumes of complex data, interpreting trends and variances from budgets and forecasts
- The provision of high-quality management accounting data
- Management of the General Ledger and Project Ledger
Please note: a generous study support package including both cost and time elements will be offered.
About You
With strong communication, collaborative and interpersonal skills, the Assistant Management Accountant will ensure that strong relationships are developed and maintained with operational managers and their teams, improving the impact and understanding of financial reporting on charity performance and delivering insight that links financial reports to business strategies.
You will have:
- AAT or part qualified CIMA is preferred, although QBE will also be considered
- Experience in a management accounting/finance business partner role
- Experience of a computerised accounting system
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft applications, particularly Excel, including some experience of dealing with high volumes of data
Knowledge of Open Accounts software, experience of budgeting and forecasting and experience of playing a key role in projects are desirable.
In return…
The charity offers a working environment second to none. Based in Sidmouth in East Devon – an area of outstanding natural beauty – the offices are located in a glorious setting overlooking the sea, there is a staff wellbeing programme and the organisations initiatives have received a royal seal of approval (recently highly commended in the 2021 Princess Anne Training Awards for the response to Covid-19), and the hundreds of resident donkeys – some literally a few yards from your office – will always be pleased to see you!
About the Organisation
The charity is one of the UK’s largest international animal welfare charities, currently supporting projects in over 35 countries worldwide. They are working for a world where donkeys and mules live free from suffering and their contribution to humanity is fully valued.
“The Sanctuary is a positive place to work with friendly staff and a wonderful charity. With amazing work throughout the world, once you join you never want to leave!”
Our client is a Disability Confident Employer. They are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable people (children and adults) and expects all staff and volunteers to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to safer recruitment processes, including an application for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where required for the post.
You may have experience in areas such as Management Accountant, Accountant, Senior Management Accountant, Junior Management Accountant, Lead Management Accountant, Project Management Accountant, Assistant Accountant, Finance, Finance Controller, Finance Manager, Business Accountant, Finance Manager, Finance Director, Head of Finance, Business Accountant, Accountant, CCAB, Financial Controller, Financial Control, CFO. ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA.
Financial Planning Manager. London | Hybrid Working. Up to £73,000 + Benefits
For a large UK wide building and construction company, we are recruiting a Financial Planning Manager to lead on the provision of investment appraisal modelling and advice, and the formulation of innovative and robust financial initiatives alongside detailed financial models. Reporting the Head of FP&A, the Financial Planning Manager will be responsible for the building and development of complex financial and business models for the whole Group and its subsidiaries as well as leading and developing an FP&A team of 4 Analysts.
What you'll be doing:
- Support the Group in assessing the long-term financial impacts of key operations and business objectives
- Re-build the short, medium, and long-term financial models currently held in Excel
- Produce long-term financial plans and detailed statistical analysis on new business activities
- Support the appraisal of new financial planning, capital development, asset management and project activity across the group
- Lead the design, development and implementation of financial and analytical models and systems.
- Implement solutions to manage complex data to drive improvements in reporting
- Lead and manage the 4 FP&A Analysts
- Work collaboratively across the senior leadership team to tailor models and reporting for their requirements
What you'll offer us:
- Qualified Accountant with proven track-record in financial modelling and analysis
- Experience of innovative and new and improved ways of working
- Expert-level Excel, VBA, Power Query and Power Pivot
- Strong leadership experience across FP&A for large, multi-group companies
- Strong staff management and leadership experience
- Ideally Power BI experience
- Strong financial modelling of integrated statements, forecast cashflows, equity investments and financing
- Presentation and communication of financial models
What we'll offer you:
- Excellent rewards package including competitive salary
- Generous annual leave entitlement as well as paid an unpaid leave
- Generous maternity and paternity allowances and paid leave for carers and new grandparents
- Market-leading employers pension contribution rates
- Family-friendly and flexible working pattern
- Excellent career pathways and promotion opportunities across the group
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FP&A Manager: up to £64,890 (6 months FTC), SE London
For a large University, we're recruiting an FP&A Manager for 6 months on an FTC although this may move to a permanent role. The FP&A Manager will lead a high performing team responsible for budgeting and forecasting processes and analysis across the University supporting key stakeholder groups. Accountable for group-wide budgets, forecasts, monthly processes and decision-making frameworks, this role will be a business process owner for Oracle EPM. This role will suit someone with a strong business partnering mindset representing excellent service delivery and someone who is forward-looking and proactively provides decision support, and critique to support financial decisions.
Main Duties:
- Own the budgeting and forecasting process, working with the Finance Business Partnering teams
- Coordinate Faculty and Directorate management information to prepare and present executive reports
- Business owner of the EPM system, overseeing ongoing development and training
- Analysis of performance and efficiency improvements
- Commercial and financial modelling, costing, and pricing, due diligence, and resource allocation reporting
- Development of a University-wide analysis on cost saving and revenue optimisation
- Lead a high performing team including the mentoring, development, and empowerment of individuals
- Work collaboratively with Senior Finance Business Partners and senior leadership team to enhance the Oracle EPM capability
- Support the CFO finance transformation programme
Person Specification:
- ACCA, ACA, or CIMA qualified with strong management accounting and FP&A experience, ideally from the Higher Education or Commercia sector.
- Experience of leading Finance teams and providing leadership to senior management teams
- Experience in building and maintaining financial models
- Oracle EPM Cloud experience
- Track record of developing and coaching staff to reach their potential
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Are you committed to supporting victim-survivors to thrive? Are you a persuasive communicator? Are you passionate about the work of SEA work and do you embrace our feminist values? We are looking for someone to join our team who has experience of leading a customer vulnerability service or frontline domestic abuse service, who is pragmatic and able to identify practice and policy solutions to complex problems.
Key focus of the role:
- Oversee SEA’s day to day financial services work, including work funded by the Home Office
- Lead on industry and government policy work related to the financial services sector
- Ensure that women with lived experience of economic abuse inform the design and delivery of SEA’s practice and policy work
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Allen Lane are delighted to be assisting a London based charity with the recruitment of a Senior Management Accountant on a 6-9 months fixed term contract basis. This key role will be responsible for the delivery of finance business partnering to several of the charities directorates and be responsible for the management of two Management Accountants. The role will include:
- Leading a comprehensive management accounting service to the charity directorates and Budget Holders
- Run and manage the monthly management reporting process including the annual budget process
- Running regular budget meetings with budget holders to provide advice and guidance around budget management
- Preparation of long terms financial planning forecasts as part of the business planning process
- Prepare and develop financial costings and appraisals
- Lead and manage a team of two providing support and guidance to team members
The ideal candidate for this role will be a qualified Accountant who has proven experience in a similar role. Knowledge of UK GAAP as well as experience of leading and manage a finance business partnering and reporting function is essential. Experience of the education or charities sector is highly desirable.
This role will close the 30th June so please do apply ASAP
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We are looking for an experienced Finance Director to pro-actively lead Watershed’s financial strategy through a period of change and transformation and oversee our day-to-day financial management.
The Finance Director is responsible for all aspects of Watershed’s financial management, in compliance with appropriate accounting standards and practices, company and charity law and associated guidance, including organisational and project budget setting, monitoring and control, financial and management information reporting systems and associated policies, financial controls and fraud prevention, invoicing, payroll, payments and associated banking and accounting, insurance, and audit.
The Finance Director will lead on the digital and systems transformation of the department, designing and managing a two year change process to ensure we have efficient and appropriate processes and procedures to continue to grow and develop the business.
The Finance Director is a member of Watersheds’ Executive Team. They will work alongside the CEO, General Manager and Board to set and deliver the finance strategy, in line with the organisation’s overall vision and business plan. The role is also supported by Watersheds’ Finance Sub Group, which is chaired by Lisa Gardner FCA, a Watershed Trustee and chartered accountant.
Closing date: Thu 18 Aug 1700
For further information and to apply, please visit: https://wshd.to/financedirector
Role overview
Finance Business Partner (Lead Management Accountant)
In this key charity wide role, you’ll provide financial leadership and decision-making support for the ROS and be our Finance Business Partner working with budget holders and key stakeholders, to facilitate the preparation of management information and financial statements.
Reporting to the Director of Finance and IT, you’ll also play an active role as a member of the Leadership Team
- Do you have significant experience of working as a finance professional in management accountancy?
- Are you educated to degree level with a professional accounting qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA?
- Do you enjoy building relationships and be energised the potential of digital technology to improve the budget holder experience?
- Can you review, translate and explain financial information to non-specialists?
We’re looking for an enthusiastic person, with excellent attention-to-detail and accuracy who is looking to join a fantastic organisation and team, who wants to make a difference.
Interested?
We’d love to hear from you!
How to apply
To apply, applicants should provide a comprehensive CV, including details of relevant experience and achievements. This should be supplemented by a supporting statement in a cover letter, demonstrating how your skills and experience meet the person specification.
We particularly welcome qualified applicants from ethnic minorities as they are under-represented in the team.
Want to know more?
For more details on this exciting role, please download the job description. Or to arrange an informal discussion before applying, feel free to contact us.
The closing date is midnight on Wednesday 6 July 2022.
Department Finance and Resources
Contract type Permanent Hours are up to 37.5 hours and we would welcome full time or part time (minimum of 30 hours) applicants
Salary Up to £45,776 per annum (pro rata if part time)
Benefits Competitive - benefits which include a competitive pension and holiday entitlement, life assurance, training and development investment, shopping discounts, cycle to work scheme and an Employee Assistance Programme.
Our Client
A leading social housing provider with an excellent employer brand based in London.
The Role
Reporting to the Financial Planning Manager, you will be responsible for the building and development of complex financial and business models for the organisation and it's subsidiaries. You will support strategic plans by providing in-depth analysis of existing financial statements and potential M&A opportunities for the group, individual entities and the sector. In addition to working closely with external stakeholders to ensure models meet their needs, you will lead the the design, development and implementation of financial and analytical models and systems.
The Successful Candidate
- Proven experience in FP&A including financial statement and metric analysis
- Strong knowledge of Excel (Functions, Charting, Data Analysis, Dynamic Formulas)
- Part qualified/qualified accountant
- Comfortable working constructively with an array of executive level stakeholders
What's on offer?
Basic salary from c.£40,000 to £45,000 dependent on experience plus access to full suite of benefits including an excellent pension scheme, employee assistance programme and life assurance. Well located with excellent transport links and a hybrid working approach with one to two days in the London office a week. Opportunity to work for an inspirational leadership team who have a enviable track record in developing exciting and varied careers.
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Deputy Director of Finance: Up to £90,000 + benefits: SE London | Permanent
For a University in Southeast London, we are recruiting a Deputy Director of Finance to report to the CFO and lead and inspire 5 high performing Finance teams overseeing the financial performance of the University. This role will lead, role model and coach a strong business partnering culture focusing on best-in-class service delivery and quality. The Deputy Finance Director will support the CFO with a strategic outset in the development and roll out of financial operations and strategic plans. A key leadership role, the Deputy Director of Finance will influence and partner at VC and Executive level.
Main Duties:
- Lead and inspire 5 high performing Finance teams, supporting the CFO Transformation Programme and implementation of a business-partnering culture and mindset
- Financial Performance Management including implementation and monitoring of the budget, 5-year financial planning, quarterly forecast, and monthly management accounting process
- Transform financial performance data into clear and insightful management packs
- Create a continuous improvement culture to understand performance and seek efficiencies
- Development and deployment of the Finance strategic and operational plan
- Influence and partner the VC Executive and SMT and be the Finance lead for the University SMT, Operations Management Group, and Investment Steering Committees
- Lead and evolve best in class business partnering across all 5 Finance teams
- Identify new and innovative financial management and leadership approaches to enhance stakeholder experience and confidence
Person Specification:
- Qualified Accountant with proven experience of developing and deploying finance strategy within a complex organisation
- Experience leading high performing business partnering teams across multiple sites
- Track record of influencing and partnering at Executive level
- Experience of working in Higher Education is desirable
- Track record of developing and empowering teams
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Senior Finance Director
About Internews
Internews is an international non-profit organisation whose mission is to empower local media worldwide to give people the news and information they need, the ability to connect and the means to make their voices heard.
Internews provides communities the resources to produce local news and information with integrity and independence. With global expertise and reach, Internews trains both media professionals and citizen journalists, introduces innovative media solutions, increases coverage of vital issues and helps establish policies needed for open access to information.
Internews programs create platforms for dialogue and enable informed debate, which bring about social and economic progress.
Internews operates internationally, with administrative centres in California, Washington DC, and London, as well as regional hubs in Bangkok and Nairobi. Formed in 1982, Internews has worked in more than 90 countries, and currently has offices in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America.
About the role
We are seeking a highly skilled finance professional to perform this essential senior leadership financial strategy and management position for our London headquarters. The approximate annual income for Internews Europe and its subsidiaries, of which the post-holder has oversight, is c. £18m.
The post-holder will report directly to the CEO for Internews Europe with a functional reporting line to the Vice President for Finance and Accounting based in California, USA. The post-holder will be a leader on matters of corporate financial strategy, budget management, inter-organisational financial transactions and overall accounting operations.
This is an exciting opportunity to drive systems and process improvements in corporate financial management and planning, whilst also ensuring the smooth running of the financial service centre of the organisation.
S/he forms a central part of the Senior Management Team (SMT) in London, in addition to the wider Corporate Management Group and other international management units.
The main areas of responsibility of the role will include:
- Day-to-day Corporate Finance oversight including banking, cash-flow planning and foreign exchange management
- Provide leadership, mentoring and staff development to the IEU finance team
- Annual budgeting, planning, reforecasting, monitoring and reporting
- Oversight of reporting functions including Board, Management, and Statutory reporting;
- Establish and ensure strong financial controls
- Develop and strengthen financial analysis including regular reporting on KPIs
- Audit preparation and management;
- Represent IEU finance operational and strategic concerns to global Internews Sr Staff team
- Close collaboration with other members of business operations Senior Staff team for optimisation of business policies and processes
Financial Management & Strategy
Advising the IEU executive management team and global senior staff team, leading where appropriate, this post will contribute to ensuring the efficient management of Internews Europe’s financial resources overall. Reporting topics to include use of resources, internally and externally; ensuring that appropriate financial control systems are in place and effective; effective monitoring of budget to actual.
Specific duties will include the following:
- Co-ordination of the annual organisational budget preparation process;
- Collaboration with the global Internews Financial Planning and Analysis, and Strategic planning functions to develop and ensure effective budget oversight and management.
- Collaboration with project and department managers regarding actual results compared against budget, including leading periodic budget adjustments
- Treasury management to minimise organisational risk and negative foreign exchange valuations;
- Budget compliance monitoring for both direct project spending and indirect department spending.
- Delivery of timely statutory, financial and management accounts;
- Reporting and presenting to the trustee board on all of the above;
- Ensuring professional and compliant delivery of all Internews Europe financial processes, to drive improvements in processes and ensure all staff members understand and adopt such processes
- Reporting on Internews Europe’s cash-flow, with particular focus on ensuring external reporting deadlines are met for prompt drawdown of grant tranches
Finance Department operations
The post will be responsible for the efficient performance of the day-to-day functions of the corporate finance department, both personally and through delegated accounting staff.
Specific duties will include the following:
- Oversight of accounting team, including managing managers , for effective leadership, staff development and strategy formation
- Oversight of international banking processes (GBP and foreign currency, income and payments);
- Banking relationship management, including monitoring banking arrangements in international offices
- Identify and implement opportunities for procedure enhancements, with an emphasis on simplicity and consistency for non-accounting global Internews staff
- Headquarters payroll process (through payroll bureau)
- Oversight of core accounting processes including cash-flow management and planning, purchase ledger processes, accounts receivable processes, including personal data entry into the accounting system of select transactions
- Oversight of accounting for IEU subsidiaries, including ensuring subsidiary financials are sufficiently reconciled for both stand-alone and consolidated reporting.
- Oversight of accounting treatment for collaboration and resource sharing between Internews Network to facilitate combined management/programmatic reporting when required, while ensuring sufficient financial controls to ensure distinct financial reporting and protection of separate legal entity status.
- Ad-hoc trouble-shooting on financial processes, transactions and issues.
Oversight of subsidiary financial processes
Currently Internews Europe has two subsidiaries, Internews International (II) based in France and Internews Media Development based in Ireland, currently dormant.
- Oversight of financial processes including relevant controls, policies and procedures
- Oversight of financial reporting in accordance with relevant GAAP and regulatory requirements.
- Monitor local regulatory requirements and ensure compliance with relevant tax and reporting requirements
- Liaison with auditors, preparation and management of audit work
- Advise SMT of ramifications of strategic decision, including finance, tax and other regulatory impacts
- Significant participant in strategy development regarding appropriate utilization of subsidiaries.
Compliance, both with the UK regulatory regime and with the requirements of our principal funders and supporters
- Lead responsibility for ensuring the maintenance and regular review of all statutory and best practice policies and procedures, staff training and update programmes
- Liaison with auditors, preparation and management of audit work [1]
- Ensuring that all aspects of the Internews Europe annual report are compliant with regulatory requirements and best practice for UK registered charities and companies limited by guarantee
- Assisting the Programme Support team, in interpretation of donor compliance requirements, their translation into Internews Europe operational and/or financial procedures, and their effective implementation
Participation in global business operations leadership
- Collaborate with other members of the global senior leadership team for efficient operations and execution of the mission
- Collaboration with Information Technology and solution for effective implementation of software and other technology solutions, providing information and expertise and support for appropriate budgeting and expense allocation.
- Collaboration with Enterprise Risk Management and Security team regarding identification and mitigation of financial and other risks, as well as preparing policy and reports in accordance with Charity Commission guidelines
- Collaboration with People and Culture team to ensure appropriate labour regulations, Internews policy, procedures and financial controls are adhered to in the processing of payroll and other benefits; includes oversight and development of payments to employees and consultants working outside of the UK on Internews projects.
Other ad hoc tasks, as directed by senior management
This summary of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be expected to take on additional responsibilities consistent with the role. These may include for example support to the executive team in relation to strategic planning, preparation and implementation of accounting software and technology solutions and similar tasks.
Line management and Team leadership responsibilities
The post supervises:
- Senior Programme Finance & Accounting Manager
- Corporate Finance Associates & Bookkeepers
Person Specification
The criteria below are the minimum necessary for effective performance in the post. The applicant must demonstrate how they meet each of them through the application form and, when necessary, through job-specific tasks and at interview.
- Experience of managing financial and management accounts processes, including annual accounts, audits and external reporting
- Experience in a management capacity within an organisation of at least similar size and complexity to Internews Europe
- Experience of liaising with and advising non-financial managers and staff
- Experience of line management and leadership
- Experience of managing external professional and service provider relationships
- Experience of HR and facilities responsibilities
- Experience of major multi-lateral and bi-lateral donor requirements
- Experience of managing the external reporting and/or compliance functions of a comparable size of organisation
- Experience of working in, or dealing with, developing countries and fragile states
- Good understanding of charity finance regulations and systems
- Professional qualification, or qualification by experience, in finance or accounting
- Knowledge of UK SORP
- High degree of proficiency in Excel
- A willingness and ability to adopt a hands on approach to your work
- A contemporary, supportive and transparent approach to management and leadership
- Be comfortable working in a collaborative, highly-diverse and mutually accountable environment
- Strong communication, liaison and interpersonal skills to work effectively with people at all levels, and represent the organisation
- Strong analytical, problem solving and creative thinking skills
- Deadline: position open until filled, please apply as early as possible
- First Round Interviews: starting June 20th
- Start Date: Negotiable, asap
You will be responsible for setting service charges for new homes handing over from developers, including analysing any management company charges and identifying any additional services which need to be provided by Sage and estimating their cost. You will be responsible for producing clear and accurate service charge budgets, which are simple and easy for residents to understand.
Client Details
A rapidly growing housing association who provide high quality affordable housing in England. Their entrepreneurial spirit combined with their technical expertise have got them to where they are today and will enable future sustainable growth.
Description
Service Charges
- Responsible for maximising their service charge income through accurately estimating all service charges based on actual costs where possible for all tenure types (i.e. tenants, leaseholders, shared owners and freeholders) with reference to financial budgets, current legislation and agreements.
- Responsible for preparing the service charge budgets for new schemes liaising with internal and external clients to ensure management agreements & leases are appropriate.
- Responsible for advising on and preparing draft service charge budgets for potential future sites - to assess feasibility.
- Responsible for reconciling actual service charge costs against estimated service charge costs, to produce year end accounts in a timely manner.
- Responsible for maintaining and updating service charge information on relevant systems and/or spreadsheets.
Rents
- Responsible for ensuring their rents are set compliantly with legislation, regulatory requirements and our policy for shared ownership leases and rented tenancies. This includes ensuring their achieves high assurance in internal audits and follows exemplary practice.
- Responsible for ensuring their rents are set compliantly with legislation, regulatory requirements and our policy for shared ownership leases and rented tenancies. This includes ensuring their achieves high assurance in internal audits and follows exemplary practice.
- Responsible for continuously identifying ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our rent setting, whilst maintaining the highest level of compliance, for example exploring ways to achieve RICS approved valuations of re-lets, without requiring property (surveyor) valuations each time.
Profile
Experience
- Experience participating in rent reviews for various tenures.
- Experience preparing year end accounts in a timely manner.
- Knowledge of housing management systems.
- Knowledge of rent setting for various tenures
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills; VLookUps, Pivot Tables, Conditional Formatting etc.
Behavioural
- You are organised and efficient with your time and self-manage, whilst being comfortable asking for help or guidance when you need it.
- You are self-driven, accountable and embrace change and opportunity.
- You're pro-active and take a creative approach to relationship-building and problem solving.
- You are decisive whilst working at a quick pace.
- You have a natural customer focus, and it is a consideration in all that you do.
- You are self-assured and tenacious as a lot of what you'll be doing will be following up with colleagues and/or third parties such as management companies or developers.
Job Offer
A very competitive package including a salary of between £35,000 - £40,000 depending on experience.
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Are you looking for your next contract role and available to start in July 2022!?
Charity People have partnered with an organisation founded by HRH The Prince of Wales where they revive traditional crafts, provide jobs and enhance skills in the UK, Asia and the Middle East.
My client is looking for a qualified Financial Controller to help manage the transition between the current post holder and the new appointee to minimise knowledge loss and maintain strong controls.
This is a 3-4 months contract role where you will be working fully remotely with occasional travel to London. The role offers a salary of £62,500 per annum and the client will be interviewing w/c 11th July, 2022.
This is a brilliant opportunity for a forward-thinking Financial Controller to bring their finance and leadership skills to this small close knit team.
Your main duties and responsibilities are:
* Work as part of the finance team to ensure the integrity of all financial records are maintained
* Review and refresh financial control reporting focused in the Middle East and across the charity to ensure that processes are designed to minimise fraud, accounting records are complete and accurate and that the charity meets its statutory obligations
* Assist the UK Finance Manager with all financial activities including Monthly Financial Reporting
* Provide financial information to time for the Board of Trustees quarterly meetings
* Take ultimate responsibility for the charities cashflow forecasting, reporting to the Director of Finance/COO and CEO
* Maintenance of the charity UK bank accounts and ensuring financial governance is in place for overseas bank accounts
* Assure the accurate processing of all payments from UK bank accounts, including UK payroll
* Monitoring of Gift Aid receipts?to the charity and reviews of Gift Aid transfers from the UK trading subsidiary
* Oversee the final preparation of the statutory accounts for the charity and its subsidiaries managing the internal and external audit process
* Document all corporate financial processes as well as reporting across weekly, monthly and annual timelines
* Support the UK finance team with any recruitment and onboarding of new staff
* Assure banking/cash transfers to operational countries
* Undertake due diligence on payment methods and overseas clients in conjunction with country teams
Candidates applying for this role must have the following requirements:
* Experience working within the charity or not-for-profit sector
* Very strong experience in Charity SORP and if you have worked on donors such as USAID, FCDO, Swiss and other corporate grants would be a great advantage
* Qualified Accountant (recognised CCAB qualifications such as ACCA, CIMA, ACA)
* Very strong technical accounting knowledge
* Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
This role will be closing on 11th July or earlier and the interviews will be held the same week or w/c 11th July, 2022.
If you have the necessary skills and experience, please apply with a copy of your CV. Candidates shortlisted will be required to write a supporting statement.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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Senior Financial Planning Analyst. London | Hybrid Working. Up to £42,000 + Benefits
For a large UK wide building and construction company, we are recruiting a Senior Financial Planning Analyst to report to the Financial Planning Manager and build and develop complex financial and business models for the Group and subsidiaries.
What you'll be doing:
- Support strategic plans by providing robust financial analysis for the Group, and individual entities
- Carry out in-depth analysis of existing financial statements, benchmarking analysis and potential M&A opportunities.
- Ensure that any overspend / variance in budgets and forecasts are reported on and explainable
- Partner with external stakeholders to tailor currents models and reporting to meet their needs and requirements.
- Design, develop and implement financial and analytical models and systems. Looking at new solutions to managing complex data to drive improvements in reporting.
- Work across multiple workstreams to support business-critical management decisions.
What you'll offer us:
- Part-Qualified of Finalist Accountant with proven FP&A experience
- Strong level knowledge of Excel (Functions / Charting / Data Analysis. Dynamic Formulas)
- Experience in Financial Statement and Metric analysis
- Knowledge of SQL/Dax language, familiar with Power Pivot/Query and Power BI
- Excellent communication skills with proven business partnering experience
- Proven track record of financial modelling and analysis and able to execute on a broad range of data and analytical techniques.
What we'll offer you:
- Excellent rewards package including competitive salary
- Generous annual leave entitlement as well as paid an unpaid leave
- Generous maternity and paternity allowances and paid leave for carers and new grandparents
- Market-leading employers pension contribution rates
- Family-friendly and flexible working pattern
- Excellent career pathways and promotion opportunities across the group
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