Income recovery officer jobs in Birmingham
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The Organisation
GSG Impact is a global non-profit organisation working across 48 countries to help build impact economies - economic systems that mobilise capital to deliver long-term social, environmental and economic value. Through our network of National Partners, we work with governments, investors, businesses and civil society to strengthen impact ecosystems, mobilise domestic capital and develop practical solutions to global challenges including climate resilience and sustainable finance.
We have a small team of 21 staff working remotely across the globe and income in 2025 was £6.3m.
Position Summary
The Head of Finance is the lead finance professional at GSG Impact, and, with the support of the Chief Operating Officer, is responsible for leading all aspects of the charity's finances.
The Head of Finance will be the owner of the external audit relationship and be responsible for the production of the annual report and accounts, including all regulatory compliance associated with a UK based charitable entity. They will support the leadership’s preparation for, and presentations to both the charity’s Finance and Audit sub-committee and the main GSG Board.
The postholder will ensure that the charity’s budget and financial position are closely monitored and that established financial controls, spanning the procurement to payments cycle, are firmly adhered to.
They will lead on the annual budget setting process, including interim reforecasting, and financial reporting.
In addition, the postholder will provide budgetary support, business partnering and technical advice to non-finance staff, and build strong relationships across the organisation, particularly the Fundraising and Programme Support Teams, positioning GSG for continued success and financial sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
In addition to the day-to-day Leadership of the Finance Function and staff management the Key Areas of Responsibility are:
Regulatory Compliance & Audit
- Preparation of the Annual financial statements and Audited accounts for the charitable entity and trading subsidiary.
- Completion of regulatory returns as required by the Charities’ Commission.
- Co-ordination and filing of the quarterly VAT returns and annual Corporation Tax return
- Review of the VAT registration position for continued appropriateness
- Ensure gift aid is calculated and paid over from the trading subsidiary to the charity, as applicable
Management Accounting and Planning
- Leadership of the Annual organisational budget process, including multi-year financial plans and Scenario modelling
- Lead mid-year reforecast process for review and approval of the Board
- Production of Monthly – Quarterly summary management accounts with accompanying narrative to support analysis of significant variances and trends
- Oversee Budget vs actual reporting and analysis by department-function for circulation to nominated budget holders
Financial Accounting, Cash and Treasury Management
- Ownership of the month end financial accounting processes and adjustments
- Manage monthly payroll process with outsourced provider
- Oversee completion of monthly Balance sheet reconciliations including bank accounts
- Manage accounts payable processes to ensure timely fulfilment of obligations to suppliers and 3rd party payments
- Monitor domestic and foreign currency bank accounts and ensure optimal balances are maintained in the various currency accounts
- Prepare regular cash flow forecasts utilising updated income and expenditure information to monitor working capital needs in the short and medium term
Funds Management & Programme Support
- Work with Programme Support colleagues in the preparation of standard budgets for donor proposals, ensuring cost recovery is maximised in line with our Full Cost Recovery Model
- Maintain a staff cost allocation database to provide an overview of funding gaps to be addressed in future donor proposals
- Oversee the production of Donor, project, or grant expenditure financial reports to ensure we meet our donor reporting obligations
- Maintain a Restricted/Unrestricted fund summary analysis schedule to support fund balances reported in the Balance Sheet
- Liaise with finance colleagues within the National Partners on sub-granted funds
Governance & Board Support
- Main liaison with the Audit and Finance committee, co-ordinating quarterly meeting schedule, agenda and supporting reports and documentation
- Production of additional information as required for Trustee board finance packs
- Supply of financial data for KPIs and dashboards on a quarterly basis
- Periodic review of Reserves Policy to ensure appropriateness and update as required by the Board
Financial Systems, Controls & Risk Management
- Maintain and ensure effective application of organisation wide financial policies and procedures
- Preparation and analysis of data required to support Going concern assessments
- Review and update on areas of financial risk as identified in the Risk Register updates
- Support colleagues in due diligence and risk assessments for partners engaged through sub grants
- Lead on continuous improvements to financial processes to ensure finance systems support programme management and organisational growth
Qualifications
- Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with significant post qualification experience
- Experience of working with the UK Charity SORP and production of annual report and accounts
- Experience of managing a team and relationships with colleagues in a distributed global structure
- Experience managing a multi-donor funded organisational budget and grant budgets, including restricted and unrestricted funding, full cost recovery and financial reporting.
- Experience with multi-currency income & expenditure and management of the processes around sub-grants to overseas partners
Competencies and Behaviours
- Strategic leadership; the role involves supporting SLT and the Board in the alignment of financial resources to the organisational strategy, ensuring outcomes and objectives can be achieved through the provision of concise and decision useful financial information
- Stakeholder engagement; the Head of Finance must be comfortable working closely with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholder including SLT, Trustees within the Finance Committee, wider Board members, the Fundraising Team and National Partners.
- Communication; the post holder must have the ability to communicate potentially complex financial information to non-finance specialists.
- Collaborative and hands on approach, alignment with the goals and mission of the organisation with a global outlook and perspective
Benefits
- Flexible working – remote with occasional onsite meeting
- Salary competitive within the charity sector, based on experience.
- 25 days holiday per annum plus eight bank/public holidays
- Enrolment in NEST Pension Scheme (3% employer and 5% employee contribution)
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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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.
Individual Giving Officer
We are looking for an Individual Giving Officer to join an ambitious and highly motivated team responsible for delivering an ambitious and growing Individual Fundraising programme.
Position: 000022 Individual Giving Officer
Location: Home-based, UK, Nationwide. However, occasional travel will be required as part of this role (may include team meetings or other work-related meetings)
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary: Circa £35,600 per annum (inner London weighting £3,950 per annum or outer London weighting £2,457 per annum may be applied in accordance with where you live)
Contract: Permanent
Benefits: 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (this will increase with service up to 30 days, full time equivalent) cashback and discount scheme, employee assistance programme, learning and development, pension scheme, Life Assurance, Eye Care vouchers, Long Service Award, Health Cash Plan, flexible working opportunities available.
Closing Date: 19 July 2026
Interview Date: Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 July 2026. Interviews will be held via video conferencing. Please let us know if this will present any challenges when you email your application.
The Role
Working alongside other officers, you will report to either the Individual Giving Lead responsible for our cause-related products or the Individual Giving Lead responsible for our gaming products. Due to the demands of the role we are looking for someone with a willingness to work flexibly with regard to working patterns when required, to support the needs of the team and the ongoing success of the programme.
You’ll be:
- Using your fundraising and marketing experience and skills to create successful campaigns and complex supporter journeys to help us grow our income and supporter engagement. (Working collaboratively with our Digital and Social Teams, as well as external media agencies).
- Helping deliver on our multi million annual plans to retain and recruit new supporters using the most effective techniques and channels, including Face to Face.
- Enthusiastically managing and delivering a range of fundraising and engagement campaigns and communications to develop and maximise support from our loyal supporters via multiple channels, including telephone, mail, digital, and SMS.
- Comfortable with figures and spreadsheets, as you’ll be diving into the data and managing campaign costs.
- Responsible for maintaining and reporting accurate campaign results and reviews.
- Always looking out for new opportunities, using our sprint pipeline methodology (testing, solving, learning from experiments) before scaling.
- Ensuring our campaigns are fully compliant at all times.
About You
We’re looking for an individual who:
- Has great experience and knowledge of fundraising, direct marketing and project management, and can bring a real enthusiasm to the team. This role has a specific focus around supporter acquisition which includes face to face, paid digital, direct mail, telemarketing and eMarketing.
- Is fantastic at organising and prioritising a busy workload and knowledgeable of project management. Loves attention to detail and can work on several projects at once whilst thinking outside the box, as things can change quickly!
- Loves data and insight and enjoys applying that insight to campaign testing.
- Is a great all-round communicator, with both internal and external audiences.
Applications
Please submit your CV, (including details of your current address), and a supporting statement of no more than two pages, demonstrating how you meet the person specification and what you bring to the role in terms of your skills and experience.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident scheme, please indicate this in your supporting statement, and in the main body of your email when applying for the role.
You will be able to view the role profile when you apply.
Stroke Association
Finding strength through support
The Stroke Association is the only charity in the UK providing lifelong support for all stroke survivors and their families. We provide tailored support to tens of thousands of stroke survivors each year. This support includes one-to-one and group support, funding vital scientific research into stroke prevention, acute treatment, recovery and long-term care, and campaigning to secure the best care for everyone affected by stroke.
We’re here for stroke survivors and their loved ones, from the moment they enter the new and frightening post-stroke world, supporting them every step of the way as they find their strength and their way back to life.
It’s only thanks to the generosity of our supporters and donors that we can provide vital support.
Stroke Association is driven by our ambition to improve the lives of everyone affected by stroke. This means we’re determined to create an equitable and inclusive workplace that benefits from the difference, and thrives on the diversity, of our people. Guided by Our approach to solving inequity in stroke, we are prioritising listening to, and learning from, lived experience across our charity.
We are working to improve the representation of this lived experience at all levels within the Stroke Association and we are eager to recruit applicants from a variety of communities and backgrounds. We are keen to receive applications from people affected by stroke, people of colour, members of LGBT+ communities, and disabled people because these identities and experiences are underrepresented and would add enormous value to how we work.
We are a Disability Confident employer, and we are making great progress focusing on flexible working, reasonable adjustments and access to work. Our charity has a variety of staff network groups and we're committed to continuously improving our diversity and inclusion efforts. If you have questions, or access needs, we’re happy to discuss any support and adjustments we can make throughout the recruitment process so that you’re able to contribute your best in a way that meets your needs.
You may also have experience in areas such as Service Coordinator, Stroke Support, Stroke, Care Team Leader, Support Team Leader, Volunteering Manager, Volunteer Coordinator, Support Group, Support and Advice, Social Care, Carer Support, Support Service, Service Manager, Service Lead, Coach, Mentor.
Please note this role is advertised by the recruitment agency acting for the client – Not For Profit People.


