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Job description
Ivy Rock Partners is delighted to be supporting a leading global development organisation with the recruitment of an interim Programme Finance Officer to support the Programme Finance Manager in running an efficient and effective programme financial management and reporting processes in relation to their programmes and grants.
About the role
As Programme Finance Officer you will provide support to the full life cycle of grants: from donor concept proposals to final reports. You will maintain a close working relationship with all finance and programme teams and relevant staff across their international network and external donors. You will prepare financial information for internal reporting purposes, including the quarterly CEO report, monthly dashboards, and quarterly cash balance reports.
You will oversee the grants management and compliance processes, including maintaining the grants management tracker to ensure they are properly recorded and monitored. You will review budgets for proposals and make recommendations for improvements and liaise with the programme/partnerships team to ensure they are complete, accurate and compliant with donor requirements.
You will also carry out any other duties as assigned by the Programme Finance Manager or the Head of Finance and Operations.
About you
- Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
- Experience working within international charities or donor agencies and have a good understanding of grant accounting
- Experience working with EC, ECHO, DFID or equivalent and have familiarity with compliance rules
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with a variety of stakeholders
- Experience working within financial accounting and financial reporting in a charitable context
- Broad understanding and experience of development issues and organisations
This role will be interviewing on a rolling basis and will best suit candidates who are immediately available.
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The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity
Financial Accountant
Permanent, Full-time
Salary: £55,000
Hybrid working 2 days in office
Location: Chelsea (with option to work regularly in Sutton if required)
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity raises money solely to support The Royal Marsden, a world-leading cancer centre. We ensure our nurses, doctors and research teams can provide the very best care and develop life-saving treatments, which are used across the UK and around the world.
We are a very ambitious organisation which has gone through transformational growth over the past five years. Alongside funding an existing programme of world-leading research, treatment and care, the Charity has recently completed its largest capital appeal to date, successfully raising £70 million to build the Oak Cancer Centre at the hospital’s Sutton site.
The role is primarily responsible for ensuring the integrity of the monthly financial reporting to trial balance and producing the statutory accounts for the Charity and Trading Subsidiary. It also includes supporting the management and continuous development of the finance systems and processes.
Key responsibilities:
- Management of year end audit and production of statutory accounts including liaison with auditors, dealing with queries and management of the year end timetable.
- Completion of a timely month end process to trial balance stage, which includes a review of our monthly nominal activity report before month end close
- Ensuring that all balance sheets accounts are reconciled monthly, and any differences are dealt with accordingly, including bank reconciliations, intercompany, fundraising income and restricted fund reports
- Responsible for Quarterly VAT Returns, management accounts for our Trading subsidiary and the reconciliation of the intercompany account with the Charity
- Processing of monthly journals including income and expenditure accruals, prepayments, quarterly depreciation, recharges and grant reporting
- Support the review and development of financial policies and procedures
- Work with the Head of Grants and Financial Controller of the Trust to ensure accurate cashflow forecasting for the Charity
The successful candidate will be a fully qualified or qualified by experience accountant with a desire to drive change in an organisation. Additional skills include highly developed interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to liaise and work across different teams.
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity is fully open to sector experience and committed to delivering a first-class training and induction programme. As such we welcome candidates from industry, charity or practice backgrounds.
Timetable:
Closing deadline:Thursday 25th April
1st round Interviews:w/c 6th May
Final Interviews: w/c 13th May
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Project Accountant
Salary: £47,000 - £50,000
12 month fixed-term contract
Flexible hybrid working
Start date: ASAP, subject to notice period
Office based in Shoreditch
My client is a major brand in the international development sector, fighting for human rights. As part of the organisation’s ongoing growth plans, they are currently in the process of a large scale Process improvement programme. This has led to a need to recruit a project accountant in support of this ambitious plan. As the Project Accountant you will work closely with the regional teams to ensure a more comprehensive purchase order system.
Key areas of responsibilities;
- Engage with and consider the needs of a broad range of stakeholders, to develop timely, accurate and efficient financial management information.
- Consider current technical functionality and whether any additional software is required to meet the financial reporting needs of the organisation.
- Enable project-based reporting, working in collaboration with the Head of Planning and the Data and Insight Team to integrate financial data with information on staff time and qualitive information to support analysis of how resources are employed to achieve impact in our work.
- Develop purchase order functionality and workflows within X-Ledger.
- Review and update the suite of financial policy and procedures impacted by the change including Procurement, Contract Approval and Financial Delegations.
- Engage with stakeholders to launch the purchase order system and support the wider organisation through this period of change.
Who are we looking for?
- A formally qualified, part qualified or qualified by experience accountant with relevant experience of accounting gained in a large, complex organisation (this could be commercial, Not-for-Profit or practice)
- An excellent communicator who is able to influence at all levels within the organisation
- Analytical with good judgement and decision making capability
My client offers hybrid working with established training and team practices to ensure full support and engagement at all times. If you are looking to develop your career in charity finance or change sectors, then this is the position for you.