These unique and rewarding freelance audit opportunity would suit experienced multi-lingual & qualified audit professionals that are flexible, love diverse travel experiences(post pandemic/ international safe zones), meeting inspiring people and supporting very worthwhile causes. AfID is recruiting on behalf of a leading specialist in assurance services for international institutional donors such as the EC, UN, World Bank, DFID . Short audit assignments would suit experienced qualified audit professionals with grant audit experience, ideally in a not-for-profit/ international development context.

Role overview

Complete international grant expenditure audits for a diverse range of projects (grant recipients) funded by international donor institutions ranging from emergency aid, to long term development in areas such as agriculture, health or infrastructure, to more commercial projects such as SME development or technical research. Assignments are 1-3 weeks in length and based across the European mainland and the developing world. These are offered on an assignment by assignment basis, one to two months in advance. Please note there is no guaranteed period of work within the contract. Contractors can be based outside the UK on the European mainland but must be able to work within the EU. 

Requirements

• Qualified ACA / ACCA or equivalent – 5+ years post qualified experience
• Grant management and audit and reporting experience with international institutions. Preference given to individuals that have worked on UN or EC grant assurance assignments
• Diplomacy and cultural sensitivity while working with a hugely diverse range of clients and beneficiaries
• A real interest in international development and associated funding structures
• Fluency in a second language German, French or Turkish
• Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills in English.
• Resilience and adaptability

​ Personal attributes:

• At least 5-10 years of relevant audit experience
• Ability to work under pressure; Strong planning, organisational and time management skills
• Sound technical and analytical skills, report writing and presentation skills

Passionate about international travel and development and willing to work in international locations. Individual must be prepared to travel to challenging location when it is deemed safe to do so. Individuals must also be able to demonstrate effective past working practices when working remotely with a range of clients. 

These unique and rewarding freelance audit opportunities would suit experienced bi-lingual (English- Mandarin) & qualified audit professionals that are flexible, love diverse travel experiences (post pandemic/ international safe zones), meeting inspiring people and supporting very worthwhile causes. AfID is recruiting on behalf of a leading specialist in assurance services for international institutional donors such as the EC, UN, World Bank, DFID . Short audit assignments across the China/ HK region would suit experienced qualified audit professionals with grant audit (or similar) experience, ideally in a not-for-profit/ international development context.

Role overview

Complete international grant expenditure audits for a diverse range of projects (grant recipients) funded by international donor institutions ranging from emergency aid, to long term development in areas such as agriculture, health and infrastructure and technical research. Assignments are 1-3 weeks in length and can also include countries in the developing world. These are offered on an assignment by assignment basis, one to two months in advance. Please note there is no guaranteed period of work within the contract. Contractors can be based outside the UK in China/ HK. 

Requirements

• Qualified ACA / ACCA or equivalent – 2+ years post qualified experience
• Grant management and audit and reporting experience with international institutions. 
• Diplomacy and cultural sensitivity while working with a hugely diverse range of clients and beneficiaries
• A real interest in international development and associated funding structures
• Fluency in Mandarin, Cantonese also beneficial.
• Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills in English.
• Resilience and adaptability

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Personal attributes:

• At least 5 years of relevant audit experience
• Ability to work under pressure; Strong planning, organisational and time management skills
• Sound technical and analytical skills, report writing and presentation skills
• Passionate about international travel and development and willing to work in international locations. Individual must be prepared to travel to challenging location when it is deemed safe to do so. Individuals must also be able to demonstrate effective past working practices when working remotely with a range of clients. 

Please note permanent opportunites may be available to candidates with the right to work in the UK. Please include this as a note on your application.

Finance Manager

£32k - 35k + NI + 4% pension contributions (pro rata)

14 hours per week

We’re looking for an experienced finance manager to lead our finance team in a new role for LRMN. You will join the leadership team and support the CEO to set the finance strategy.

LRMN is a thriving organisation and one of the most established refugee and migrants’ organisations providing services in London but focusing on south and southeast London boroughs. Our services include provision of specialist legal advice and information on immigration, housing and welfare, therapeutic and practical support to women who survived gender based violence, helping our service users access employment, training and volunteering opportunities, prevention of mental health problems, and helping our clients integrate and engage in their community.

You will have day to day responsibility for the organisation’s finances, working with colleagues to set and manage budgets, maintain accurate financial records and ensure all financial and compliance requirements are met.

With a relevant accounting background and qualification you will have an excellent understanding of, and experience of, financial planning. You will be organised with a high level of attention to detail.

LRMN is an equal opportunity employer and committed to safeguarding and fulfilling its duty of care to people working and volunteering in the organisation and to those we come into contact with.

To apply, please find the job description, person specification and link to the application form on our website.

Deadline: 9am 15th March 2021

Interviews: Afternoon of 22nd March 2021

We are Korea Future Initiative (KFI). We investigate and obtain the hard evidence needed to underpin future accountability on North Korea through comprehensively documenting current human rights violations, identifying alleged perpetrators, and exposing patterns of gross and systematic abuse.

KFI is a fast-growing start-up with offices in London and Seoul. We are looking to hire an experienced Finance and Operations Manager to strengthen our financial management and improve our operational structures and practices.

This is a permanent role with potential to eventually go full-time. The role is currently 2 days per week - this can be spread over the week. The role is home-based, but occassional work from our London office (in New Malden) might be required. We may consider freelancers and Seoul-based individuals for this role.

Overall aim and objectives of the post

We are seeking an experienced Finance and Operations Manager to help KFI grow from a small start-up into an effective, well-renowned and self-sustaining organisation by strengthening our internal financial controls and developing our operational procedures and policies.

They will have a proven track record of financial management within the charity sector. The candidate will work alongside the CEO, book-keeper, and the Board of Trustees to oversee all aspects of financial management and operations.

This is an excellent opportunity to take on a challenging, yet highly rewarding role supporting KFI’s work for those with at least 5 years of experience in financial management.

Application Process

Please email a CV and cover letter using the email listed below. The cover letter should detail how you meet the person specification and why you are interested in the role in no more than 2 sides of A4.

Job Description

• Produce timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, including monthly cash flow and P&L for funders and the Board of Trustees.
• Manage day-to-day financial operations, including accounts payable, reconciliations, and general accounting functions.
• Manage restricted funds by ensuring that spend is being tracked, recorded and allocated against grants/donations correctly.
• Produce annual returns for submitting to the Charity Commission in a timely manner.
• Work with the CEO and Treasurer to develop and implement appropriate internal controls to ensure we meet funder and audit obligations.
• Work with the CEO, Treasurer, and Chair to develop policies and procedures relevant to risk management and financial controls.
• Line-manage a book-keeper (a highly experienced charity accountant).
• Coordinate with the CEO and other staff/volunteers to implement business policies and procedures.
• Lead, develop and maintain the strategic operational business plan to improve and maintain a high level of administration across the organisation.
• Develop and manage the budget in liaison with the CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, Treasurer, and the Chair of Trustees.
• Ensuring compliance to all legal, governance, and regulatory frameworks across all operations and programme delivery.
• Manage all aspects of HR operations, including preparing monthly payroll, calculate holiday allowances, input sick leave, and ensure that the HR system is accurate and up to date
• Work with the CEO and CSO in recruiting and developing talented staff in London and Seoul.
• Working with the CEO and Chair to organise board meetings.
• Monitoring and maintaining a safe working environment and work practices
• Set comprehensive goals for performance and growth
• Working with the CEO, CSO and Board of Trustees to promote an inclusive and high performing organisation.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

1. Evidence of experience working in a comparable role, with an understanding and cultural affinity with the organisation’s aims.
2. Knowledge and experience of working with Xero. Experience of financial administration such as paying invoices, etc
3. Experience of implementing HR, financial, and related governance policies and procedures.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Applications close on March 16th. We will be holding interviews in the last week of March. We expect the role to begin in early April.

Applicants are required to submit:

• An up-to-date CV
• A maximum 1 page cover letter, outlining how you meet the person specification..

The candidates will be shortlisted for an interview via Zoom or Skype.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a hands on Finance Lead to join the team at Talkback, at an exciting time of growth.

Are you a person with a passion to help people? If so, would you like to use your skills and work alongside like-minded, committed colleagues to enable people with a learning disability to increase their self-esteem, have more say, and control over their lives. Talkback has worked for over 20 years in a person-centred way with over 1000 people with learning needs and/or autism.

Position: Finance Lead

Location: The role is office and home based with a requirement to work in the South Bucks office at least 2 days a week and travel across Buckinghamshire, as required, to visit our teams

Salary: £28,000 - £38,000 per annum pro rata depending on skill levels

Hours:  Full and Part Time considered - a minimum of 3 days per week.

Benefits:

Holidays: 23 – 27 days per year, dependent upon length of service and days worked

Pension: A Workplace Pension scheme, where both the employer and employee contribute

Family Friendly Benefits: We are committed to supporting staff in achieving a sensible work-life balance.

Employee Assistance Programme: staff have access to the support line 24/7

Parking: Free parking available on site

As Finance Lead you will be responsible for managing the financial assets of the charity and supporting its long-term future through effective and responsive controls, reporting and planning.

You will support the CEO, advise the Board of Trustees and be part of the senior leadership team, providing timely and insightful forecasting, maintaining effective financial control and supporting the CEO in developing business plans and analysis. You will also be handling transactions when required, as it’s a hands on approach we need.

Having had experience of working in an SME or Charity environment you will use your experience and knowledge, outside Finance, for the benefit of the people that we support and will be willing to provide hands on support, when required.

About You:

To be successful in the role you will need the following skills/experience:

• Fully qualified – ACCA or equivalent
• All round experience of working in an SME with excellent operational knowledge
• Experience of working within the Charity sector essential
• Proven ability to support change management processes with financial data
• Strong IT knowledge including advanced knowledge of MS Excel
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• The ability to work on a range of projects
• Collaborative and hands-on style of working
• Contract management experience preferred

Other roles you may have experience of could include Charity Finance Manager, Head of Finance, Finance Team Leader, Finance Analyst, Senior Finance Manager, Interim Finance Manager, Financial Accounting Manager, Finance Manger etc.

Sightsavers are recruiting for a new position, a Resource Analyst who will play a vital role within our growing central Planning, Monitoring and Reporting team.

Location: Flexible

Contract: Permanent / Two Year Fixed Term

Full time

Salary: c£38,148 – depending upon experience  / Local Terms and Conditions Apply for non-UK locations

About the role

Reporting to the Planning and Reporting Manager, the Resource Analyst will be responsible for improving, maintaining and monitoring a range of key financial fund resource activities across the organisation. 

Key duties include:

• Fund Balances Management and Monitoring (30%)
  • Reconciliations of income proposals
  • Allocations of indirect cost recovery from grants
  • Allocations of funds and balances
  • Ongoing review of spend against restricted income
  • Developing regular reporting processes
• Funding Agreement Classifications and Recording (20%)
• Financial Management Framework (FMF) (15%)
• Month End and Year End Financial Processing (20%)
• Other Reporting (15%)

About you

We are looking for an individual with a logical and analytical approach to problem solving. You should have great attention to detail and a willingness to follow issues through to resolution. You will be a part-qualified Accountant (or hold equivalent experience) and have:

• Experience and understanding of development programme management issues preferably with knowledge of the NGO financial environment
• Experience of accounting systems
• Experience of SUN would be advantageous
• Awareness of the overseas development context gained preferably through working in the sector or overseas in a developing country
• Experience and understanding of donor relationships and grant proposal development and management requirements
• The ability to manage and coordinate organisational wide processes and deliver high quality outputs to senior stakeholders
• The ability to plan and work effectively as part of a team

This is an involved role and further details may be found within the job description.

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people living with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Closing date: 28 February 2021

We anticipate that remote interviews, possibly including an Excel assessment will take place in late March 2021.

The Organisation

The South East Rivers Trust (SERT) is an environmental charity dedicated to achieving healthy river ecosystems for all across the South East of England. Our core values are central to all we strive to achieve, including bringing positive energy, expertise and specialist knowledge to develop good relationships and to deliver to a high standard making a real difference to rivers and their catchment areas.

The Role

The Finance and Operations Director is a new senior role in the organisation. It will provide leadership of the finance and operational staff to achieve the following key outcomes:

• Strategic leadership of finance and supporting trustees in their financial governance; including helping to develop a solid business model along with a sound financial strategy to underpin this.
• Effective financial management and managing the finance function; appropriate high quality budgeting and reporting systems, a solid control environment and efficient and effective transaction processing and compliance.
• People management and HR functions; including developing a strong staff resource model.
• Grant and contract management (including legal); to deliver effective process, procedure and systems to ensure end to end grant and project management.

The Candidate

The position will suit a strategic thinker who is friendly, calm and supportive with experience in growing and developing organisations. Experience of managing a successful finance function including setting finance strategy will be important and experience of people management and contract and grant management would be ideal. A passion for nature and an interest in environmental management would be an advantage.

FILE is a grant-making Foundation, with entities in both the UK and Amsterdam, whose charitable object is to promote protection of the environment through law and related advocacy. 

FILE has two sets of objectives: the first to encourage philanthropies to join strategies and co-manage funds for climate and biodiversity activities, and the second is to apply these funds to support legal reform and cases, campaigns and advocacy around legal interventions, the research and evidentiary support of law cases, and learning within the community.  Whilst FILE is a grant-making institution, it also aims to help build the NGO ecosystem, shape strategy, and make an impact on climate change and the protection of biodiversity.

Job Description

Job Title: Finance and Operations Assistant
Reports to: Head of Operations
Location: London

Full-time

12-month short term contract – possibility of extension

Main purpose and description of the role:

The Operations and Finance Assistant reports to the Head of Operations, but will also work closely with the Finance Business Partner and wider File Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting both the operations and finance teams to deliver against business targets in an administrative capacity. The role will extend beyond both of these teams providing administrative support to the wider File team where required. Helping to ensure that both functions operate smoothly. The ideal candidate will be highly organized and detailed. With a passion for learning, and implementing new processes and practices when required, getting a sense of achievement for ensuring that processes run smoothly and to time. They will be happy to work on their own in a remote working environment, and be able to demonstrate that they can work on their own initiative as part of a remote team. They will need to be flexible and happy to work in a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

Operations Responsibilities

• Responsible for HR administration and record-keeping, including preparing paperwork and co-ordinating recruitment, induction and leaver processes.
• Developing a recruitment process, monitoring applications, leads, and sign off processes.
• Act as an IT superuser becoming an expert in IT systems and supporting colleagues to use them effectively.
• Ordering stationery and IT equipment as required.
• Managing health and safety for all employees.
• Ensuring that insurance documents are up to date and compliant.
• Assisting the Head of Operations with maintaining governance policies and organising related training when required to ensure compliance.
• Managing Training and Coaching partners, and organising training when required.
• Managing the relationship with facilities partners, dealing with any issues with regards to the premises, managing contracts with external suppliers

• Supporting the Head of Operations to manage the risk register.

 Finance Responsibilities

Maintaining and managing the update on the grants excel spreadsheet:

• Grants payment forecast
• Grants pipeline
• Grants data (input for budget)

Assisting in quarterly management packs

• cash flow forecasts
• income and expenditure analysis

Assisting in other various ad hoc tasks:

• admin side of the grantee and donor side Due Diligence (web search/ making sure the DD forms and documents are saved in relevant folders, filling in Know Your Donor)
• assist with data transition to the new Grant Management System
• assist with power point presentations  
• Supporting the financial controller with invoice and bank queries. Following up with the wider team on finance queries.

Qualifications & Experience

• Previous experience in a similar role as either an Operations or Finance Assistant, or in another administrative field, is essential.
• High level of attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Excellent time management skills. Excellent telephone manner and confident in a public facing role.
• Able to establish systems, record information and maintain records systematically and confidentially.
• Confident user of IT software, including Microsoft Office Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Confident working with numbers, data and spreadsheets.
• Able to work on own initiative and to tight deadlines.
• Understanding of the non-profit field would be desirable, with understanding of the climate and / or biodiversity landscape particularly useful.
• A team player, who will offer a high degree of flexibility and be able to demonstrate a willingness to learn on the job.

Diversity & Inclusion

File Foundation is committed to challenging inequality and values diversity in all areas of life. We recognise that reflecting that diversity will only ever make our organisation better. We work to ensure an inclusive culture where colleagues feel welcomed and supported to succeed and thrive. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those from under-represented communities. 

About Initiative Earth

Initiative Earth is a newly formed Charity, with a mission to enable people worldwide to restore ecosystems and revitalise communities. 

We are focused on the development of essential online learning resources and courses; the continuation of our public-facing EcoResolution campaign and also our global ChangeMaker Network (in a nutshell!). 

Our first campaign, EcoResolution, was set up in 2018 with Cara Delevingne in response to the powerlessness people feel in the face of ecological breakdown and political inaction. This social media campaign has now expanded into a global initiative that combines the power of technology and storytelling, aiming to empower individuals to take decisive action in the face of environmental and social justice issues.

Based on the experience and insight gathered through EcoResolution, we established the charity Initiative Earth in 2020. Our aim is to make accessible high-quality courses that enable practical and 'on-the-ground' ecosystem restoration.

Our experience spans the fields of alternative education, technology, systems change and environmental regeneration. Our extensive networks place us in a privileged position to access diverse groups and communities across the worlds of grassroots movements, farming, business, culture and more. 

Initiative Earth is an equal opportunities employer, dedicated to creating teams of individuals with diverse experiences and knowledge. As an organisation we work on a trust and purpose driven basis, committed to a self-management ecologically-minded framework and supportive working practices. (More information can be provided upon request)

About the role

We are looking for a part-time fundraiser to join our team to creatively and resourcefully develop income streams support our exciting upcoming work. This role will also include some financial planning and forecasting elements. Initiative Earth is a brand new Charity launching it's core work this year, so this is a really exciting time to join our small dynamic team.

We are looking for someone who can head up the business-planning and income generating elements of our work, with particular focus on our 2021 strategy for the development of online courses. We have secured core cost (base) funding for 3 years, so this role will be an exciting opportunity for someone who is interested in diversifying income streams, developing sustainable and regenerative financial models, working with networks, partners and new audiences to develop long-term independent funding. 

We are looking for someone who can think creatively and think big to support fundraising for what we believe to be essential platforms and services, supporting people to mobilise our vision of resilient communities and thriving ecosystems. We are a small self-directed team and we are looking for someone who can take initiative, input creatively and adapt and respond to our organisation's needs and vision.

Please see attached for the full application details