Finance Analyst

Finance Analyst - Country Programmes | Interim | 6 Months + | £250 per day (Umbrella Co) London - Hybrid

For a large international NGO, we're recruiting an Interim Finance Analyst for their Strategic Operations and Country Programmes team. This role will support Nigeria and India country programme teams, and a complex grants portfolio. This role will analyse financial performance ensuring integrity and accuracy of data reported and help support commercial decisions. This role is for at least 6 months and is hybrid working.

Main Duties:

• Compliance - review monthly country programme P&L, and balance sheet reconciliations
• Develop automated reconciliation and reporting
• Effective roll out of global standards and compliance reporting, ensuring all global audit requirements are actioned
• Collaborate with Donor teams, and Regional Programme Officer to ensure Donors' compliance requirements are understood
• Analyse financial and service data, variance analysis and trend analysis
• Support budget versus actual variance analysis and support the creation of financial models
• Financial forecasting, reporting and KPI tracking
• Reporting, budgeting, and grant accounting. Work closely with country programme Grant Managers to ensure Donor reports are robust, and that spend rates are monitored
• Review all new project budget proposals, working with country programmes to ensure projects are set-up, reported on, and closed down effectively

Person Specification:

• Qualified or Part-Qualified Accountant
• Experience within the international charity sector
• Experience of Donor regulations, Donor policies and procedures, and supporting donor-funded grant management
• Strong Excel skills and ideally experience with SunSystems, Q&A and BI tools
• International and multi-cultural organisation experience

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