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Sightsavers is seeking a Financial Controller to provide senior leadership across our global finance function, ensuring robust financial governance, effective controls and high-quality financial management across a complex international organisation.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will lead the Global Finance Team and oversee key areas including business finance, subsidiaries finance, treasury, statutory accounting, audit, finance systems and continuous improvement. You will play an important role in ensuring that our finance function is well controlled, responsive, efficient and able to support colleagues across our global programmes and operations.
This is an opportunity for an experienced finance leader who can combine technical expertise with inclusive and confident people leadership. You will be able to develop high-performing teams, review and improve ways of working, support change and make balanced decisions that strengthen finance capability and service delivery.
You will bring a recognised professional accounting qualification, senior financial management experience, strong knowledge of financial controls and statutory accounting, and the ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to senior stakeholders and non-finance colleagues. Experience of working in a charity, INGO, donor-funded or complex international environment would be an advantage.
Please read the full job description for further requirements.
Candidates must already have the right to work in the UK, as Sightsavers is unable to provide employer sponsorship for this role.
Sightsavers is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone we work with. Due to the seniority and nature of this role, the successful candidate will be expected to undertake relevant background checks, which may include a DBS check, in line with organisational policy and the requirements of the role.
We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and from candidates with diverse backgrounds. We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process and will provide reasonable adjustments where needed.
To apply for this exciting opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal by uploading an up to date CV and answering the job-specific questions. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.
We anticipate that there will be a two -stage interview process starting in early September. This will include a role-specific presentation task and the final stage interview will be held in-person at our offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Ideally we would like the successful candidate to be in post by Q4 of 2026 and attendance at the annual planning meeting in mid-November would be very helpful.
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
Ivy Rock Partners is supporting a UK charity with the recruitment of an experienced Financial Modeller to design and build a robust, integrated financial planning model that converts the organisation's annualised five-year financial plan into a fully phased monthly forecast over a five-year horizon.
This role will be responsible for replacing existing multiple planning models with a single, sustainable solution that supports budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning and strategic decision-making.
This is an excellent opportunity for a technically strong finance professional with exceptional financial modelling skills who enjoys solving complex problems and building practical, user-friendly planning tools.
Key responsibilities:
- Review and document the existing financial planning model and supporting workbooks.
- Design and build a fully integrated five-year financial planning model with monthly forecasting capability.
- Develop integrated forecasting across the Income & Expenditure Account, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Reserves and Capital Programme.
- Create robust monthly phasing methodologies for income, expenditure, capital investment and working capital movements.
- Consolidate multiple planning workbooks into a streamlined, efficient and well-controlled modelling framework.
- Build scenario planning and sensitivity analysis functionality to support strategic decision-making.
- Develop key forecasting drivers and assumptions to enable efficient reforecasting and long-term planning.
- Produce a sustainable budget model to support future annual budgeting cycles.
- Ensure the model accommodates restricted and unrestricted fund accounting requirements.
- Implement model controls, reconciliations, validation checks and audit trails to improve governance and reliability.
- Produce comprehensive documentation, user guides and knowledge transfer to enable ongoing internal ownership.
You will:
- Be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) or possess significant relevant financial modelling experience.
- Have a proven track record of building complex, integrated financial models in Excel.
- Possess strong experience developing three-statement financial models incorporating profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow forecasting.
- Have excellent knowledge of FP&A, management accounting, budgeting and long-term financial planning.
- Be highly proficient in advanced Excel, including building scalable and well-controlled financial models.
- Have experience consolidating multiple data sources and planning workbooks into a single modelling framework.
- Possess excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Ideally have experience within the charity or not-for-profit sector, including an understanding of restricted fund accounting.
- Be able to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and work collaboratively with finance and non-finance stakeholders.
What's on offer:
- Day rate: £400 - £500 per day
- Hybrid working arrangements
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This organisation is scheduling interviews as applications come in. They're ready to hire as soon as they find the right person. Don't miss your opportunity, apply now!
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Strength and Learning Through Horses (SLTH) is a London-based charity transforming the lives of vulnerable young people through equine-assisted therapy and education services.
As Chief Executive, you will lead the organisation into its next chapter. Reporting to the Board, you will bring operational leadership, drive organisational development, grow and diversify income, oversee site development, strengthen governance, and oversee financial performance, planning and sustainability. You will also act as ambassador, building partnerships and profile.
Essentials:
- Significant senior leadership experience (CEO, Deputy CEO, COO or equivalent) in the charity, education, health, youth or social care sectors
- Strong background in operational excellence, strategy, governance and organisational development
- Experience representing an organisation externally and leading diverse teams
- Demonstrable financial stewardship, working knowledge of day-to-day HR policies and processes, and an understanding of safeguarding responsibilities
Benefits:
- Flexible working
- Opportunity to lead a high-impact, specialist charity
This role will suit a senior leader with a track record in growth, income generation and team leadership, who is bold, ambitious and passionate about improving the lives of vulnerable young people. Are you ready to scale impact while protecting what makes a charity special?
Please see the candidate pack for full details. For an informal and confidential discussion about the role, please contact: Katherine Anderson-Scott, Executive Director of Charisma Charity Recruitment.
Location: Greengates Stables, Mays Lane, Barnet, EN5 2AQ / hybrid - 3 days a week on-site
Closing date: Thursday 6th August 2026
Charisma vetting interviews will be completed on a rolling basis.
Please note: the SLTH interview process with be 3 stages, with the final 1 or 2 candidates invited back for an on-site visit, which will involve the whole staff team and young people/professionals/parents and carers.
We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, race, colour, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status or other category protected by law.
