About us
For over 25 years our investigations, campaigns, advocacy and truth-telling has catalysed change that has had global impact. These skills are needed now more than ever.
Our work is focused on changing the systems which enable abuse to the environment and human rights and allow the powerful to make decisions which are corrupt or based entirely around self-interest.
About the role
We’re excited to be hiring a senior campaigner for our Brussels or London office to work on our campaign which aims to constrain corporate power by holding companies to account for environmental and human rights abuses.
You will develop EU policy and deliver advocacy campaigns that result in new legislation designed to change company behaviour and hold those acting with disregard for the environment or human rights to account.
About you
You have significant policy knowledge and expertise on corporate accountability including liability, due diligence and access to remedy for victims.
You have already achieved a number of campaign successes that have changed the rules for companies and institutions, making them accountable for their impact on human rights and the environment
You have a working knowledge of the EU political environment and use your excellent communication skills to build and maximise relationships
Finally team working is critical in this role, so you must thrive in an environment where you frequently work with others to achieve impac
Working for us
Global Witness has a talented team of people worldwide with offices in London, Washington DC and Brussels. We aspire to be a diverse and inclusive place to work, where difference is respected and celebrated. We know that a diverse and inclusive workplace is an asset to any organization and that different views and experiences improve the way we work.
We do our best to make our jobs accessible to all regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or identity.
Our benefits are competitive. We offer 23 days annual leave (exc. public holidays), healthcare insurance and flexible and agile working arrangements.
What we hope you’ll do next
Please send in your CV and a cover letter outlining how you meet the requirements of the role with Senior Campaigner – Corporate Accountability in the subject heading by 5pm GMT Monday 3 August 2020.
Interviews will be held week commencing 24 August 2020.
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Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) are looking to recruit a Management Accountant to ensure that CACT’s financial records are maintained accurately and kept up to date. The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring financial performance and explaining variances to budget, and together with the Director of Finance, ensuring that statutory reporting requirements are complied with.
Applicants must be part or fully qualified professional accountants and have experience of ledger management and reconciliations, as well as management accounts preparation.
For further information please download an application pack.
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Management Accountant
An exciting opportunity for a part qualified management accountant has arisen at one of London’s fastest growing educational charities. A commercially minded and forward organisation, this role will suit someone who has experience in either the charity or education sector. If you are a part qualified finance professional, with excellent management accounting experience, this could be the right role for you!
The responsibilities for this role include creating the monthly management packs by liaising with mid-level and senior stakeholders across the organisation, working with budget holders on their accruals, deferments and budgets, supporting the Head of Finance as necessary. You will sit as part of a fairly small finance team, so must be able to work outside your job description, gaining exposure to a range of charitable financial activities.
Requirements:
· You must have at least 2 years management accounting experience, with exposure to the full management accounting pack and ideally have written or produced commentary
· You will be part qualified, with the desire to qualify in the next few years (there will be opportunities to work outside your job description on other exciting projects)
· You have worked with accruals, deferments and journals, and are able to apply your technical knowledge in ways that are easily understandable to non-finance professionals
· You will be articulate, emotionally intelligent and bright, with excellent attention to detail and organisation skills
Benefits:
· Study support including 5 extra days leave a year and money towards your studies
· Salary of £32,000 to £37,000 per annum
· Working in a close knit, friendly team in an artistic and expressive space
If you are interested in this role, please apply to find out more.
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A medium-sized charity are looking for a technically gifted financial accountant to support the finance team, are you a part qualified accountant, familiar with the nuances of charity accounting?
The requirements for this role include:
- Familiarity with Charity SORP
- Advanced excel skills (including VLookups, Pivot tables and ideally macros)
- Experience of working within the finance function of a charity or non profit organisation
In this role you will utilise your high level of technical finance skill to further the charitable activities of this well known organisation. The finance team is small and in the medium term, there will be opportunities for line management and progression.
Benefits for the role include:
- An annual salary of £35,000 - £40,000 depending on experience
- Study support as you complete your accountancy qualifications
- Working from home up to 2 days a week when the organisation is back in the office
If you are interested in this role, please apply with an up to date CV to be considered.
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Our partner is a leading humanitarian and development organisation. They are seeking a Management and Project Accountant to support and establish sound financial systems in line with the needs of the organisation.
Key Responsiblities Include:
- Monthly management accounts preparation.
- Quaretly financial report preparation - for both Trustee and Board approval.
- Maintain integrity of the financial information; review grant agreements, transfers and international invoice payments; review accounting processes & controls, and propose actions to mitigate any risks and implement process improvements as appropriate.
- Provide finance support and financial management surge support to international teams as required.
Person Specification
- Qualified accountant with experience of working in international development and/or non-profits.
- Experience of developing financial systems to support international operations
- Experience with institutional donors, including budget proposal development, budget management, grants compliance & reporting.
- Flexible, able to adapt to workload and changing priorities as required
- Excellent communication skills – able to communicate to finance and non-finance staff.
*Please note this role is only open to candidates with the right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship. Our partner is considering candidates on a rolling basis, and therefore early applications are strongly advised.
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Project Accountant role working with an International Development charity in North London.
Your new company
International Development organisation with projects operating all over the world. The organisation has an income of approx. £6m.
Your new role
The Project Accountant will work alongside the Finance Business Partner to support the delivery of timely finance donor reports, provide structured finance technical support and assist with generating monthly management reports.
- Provide business partnering and support to teams, including providing technical finance assistance and taking part monthly meetings.
- Assist in the investigation of Budget versus Actual variances as highlighted by budget holders or teams.
- Working with the Finance Business Partner and programme teams, prepare interim and final financial donor reports as they fall due.
- Provide technical support and assistance to budget holders during the annual budget planning process
- Create project and donor codes on the accounting system for new projects/donors
- Working with the Finance Business Partner, deliver accurate and timely comparative management reports to the teams
What you'll need to succeed
The ideal candidate will have experience in a similar role, ideally with experience of donor reporting.
The client will consider qualified or part qualified candidates.
What you'll get in return
The organisation will offer work life balance on an ongoing basis. It is a dynamic organisation with a competitive package of benefits.
What you need to do now
Please apply ASAP to be considered!
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- A 12 month role working for a globally recognised charity at the forefront of the pandemic.
- Work on a number of exciting new projects from day one and form lasting relationships with stakeholders.
Client Details
This organisation is a leading international development charity located in the heart of London. They have been on the front line of the pandemic and are extremely busy at present. They are looking for a skilled finance professional to join them for 12 months to assist with high priority projects.
Description
- Working closely with the Finance Manager and Project team on a variety of new projects.
- Continuously look for and suggest improvements that could be made to internal processes.
- Make efficiencies to the budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Effectively build relationships with key stakeholders.
- Work as part of the team responsible for the a new system implementation. This will involve the process definition and documentation, functional testing, VAT testing, data migration/cleansing, system implementation, communication, participate in training and contribute to preparing training materials.
- Ad-hoc finance tasks.
Profile
- A fully qualified CCAB accountant.
- Posses exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working on a number of simultaneous projects.
- Experience working in the charity sector or a keen interest in working in the sector.
- Experience working with basic controls, VAT and tax.
- Highly IT literate.
Job Offer
- Up to £47,000 p/a.
- Generous pension contribution
- 28 days annual leave
A prestigious and well known international organisation is looking for a qualified accountant to join their high-performing team, to provide all-round finance project support whilst they undergo a period of change. This newly-created role will enable the team to meet the challenges and risks created by both the already-underway finance and systems change project, and COVID-19.
Main responsibilities will include:
- Reviewing finance-specific risks and undertaking discrete pieces of work in response (for example, their approach to VAT/Corporation tax, reviewing the financial sustainability of key suppliers, cashflow forecasting)
- Investigating areas for, and implementing improvements to, budgeting, reporting and analysis tools whilst also improving processes and controls efficiencies
- Working with the Finance Manager and Project Manager to implement the new finance system, which will include process definition and documentation, functional testing, UAT testing, data migration/cleansing, system implementation and ad hoc training
- Working with the Fundraising and Project teams to develop, design and maintain policies and procedures supporting integration between the fundraising CRM and the finance system
- Re-forecasting and re-budgeting in light of the impact of COVID-19
The successful candidate will:
- Be a fully qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) with experience working in a similar project-focused role
- Have experience carrying out discrete time-bound project work and of acting as the business partner for organisation-wide projects
- Be knowledgeable of Charity SORP
- Have excellent exposure to accounting packages and strong Excel skills, with proven experience assisting with a system implementation
- Be agile and adaptable in your ability to work on multiple different projects simultaneously
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ROLE: Finance Manager
SALARY: Band 8a £52,643 - £58,558 (inclusive of HCAS)
LOCATION: Waterloo Road, Central London
HOURS: 37.5 hours per week
TYPE: Full-time, Permanent
The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) is a unique and complex emergency service network serving a diverse population and responding to 1.8 million emergency calls per year. In addition they are the current provider for NHS 111 / Integrated Urgent Care in both South East London and North East London. Demands on urgent and emergency care providers across the capital are increasing and the Trust is developing new innovative services to provide care closer to home for patients. This has required the Trust to evolve its operating model and a number of exciting opportunities have arisen through this restructure.
The Finance Manager is a key member of the finance department who will report into the Finance Business Partner. You will take responsibility for a team of up to five Finance Analysts providing a financial management service, including management accounting information and financial advice, to one of the Directorates in the London Ambulance Service.
Key duties and responsibilities of the Finance Manager will include:
- Preparation of monthly reports for assigned Directorates
- Reporting on Key Financial Indicators
- Planning, development and monitoring of the budgets for assigned Directorates
- Liaising with the relevant Directorates to build an informative and robust forecast
- Regular audit of overtime and other payments made by the Trust
- Provide financial input on project development work and relevant costings for Business cases.
- Lead on the production of workforce plans and reference costs
- Design and present financial management training courses for budget holders
- Develop, maintain and comply with Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Scheme of Delegation and financial procedures
- Deputise for the Head of Financial Management when required
- Line management and mentoring of a team of up to five Finance Analysts
- Managing all aspects of the Trust’s income including the main SLA, staff recharges and CQUINs if relevant to the assigned Directorates.
- Process improvement within the finance department and the wider Trust
- Working very closely with the Finance Business Partner of the assigned directorates.
Your key areas of influence will be:
- liaising with budget holders
- liaising with senior finance team managers
- provision of financial information
- staff development
Finance Manager Person Specification:
We are looking for candidates with management accounting experience who can also develop an understanding of an organisation and assess the financial implications of business changes and proposals. Your interpersonal skills, innovative approach and ability to lead by example are therefore as important as your management accounting skills.
- qualified CCAB Accountant (or similar technical knowledge gained through equivalent experience)
- experience of working in a management accounting environment (preferably NHS)
- understanding of international financial reporting standards
- excellent software skills in Excel
- experience of staff management and leadership
This is an exciting and challenging position for an individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced, demanding and highly flexible environment. You will be a part of a high profile and influential organisation, making life better for Londoners by helping the Trust to achieve its vision of becoming a world-class ambulance service for a world class city.
Your salary and benefits:
- Band 8a £52,643 - £58,558 (inclusive of HCAS)
- 27 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (holiday entitlement raises to 33 days with service)
- Excellent training, learning and development opportunities
- Generous pension scheme (including 20.68% employer contribution and a tiered system of employee contribution depending on your salary from 5% to 14.5%).
- A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme
- Health services discounts (retail, holidays, entertainment and restaurants)
- Season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme
APPLICATION PROCESS:
To be considered for the role you will need to apply before the closing date at midnight on Friday 5th June. Early applications are strongly encouraged.
Allen Lane are our recruitment partner for this campaign. If you would like to find out more information before applying please contact Brooke Cooper at Allen Lane
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Emmaus Communities offer homeless people a home, work and the chance to rebuild their lives in a supportive environment by running successful social enterprises.
Emmaus Greenwich, a well-established social enterprise providing a home and work to 35 residents, is seeking a Finance Manager on a part time basis (3 days / 24 hours per week) to manage the charity's finance operations.
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Job Title: Finance Manager
Location: Emmaus Greenwich Community
Reports To: Chief Executive
Responsible for: Finance Assistant and volunteers
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Job Purpose
- To manage the financial operations of the Emmaus Greenwich Community comprised of Companions, Staff, Volunteers, and Trustees
- To support the Chief Executive, Treasurer, and Trustees so they can manage the Community’s finances efficiently
- To Line Manage the Finance Assistant and finance volunteers
- To work as part of the management team delivering the organisation’s objectives, including promoting Emmaus internally and externally, collaborating with other Emmaus Communities and organisations to achieve wider strategic plans and objectives
Duties and Responsibilities
Specific Responsibilities
- Managing the Charity’s financial and accounting operations using QuickBooks financial management software and Microsoft Excel
- Producing accurate monthly Management Accounts for Chief Executive and Board of Trustees, including commentary on significant areas and variances from budgets
- Preparing detailed annual budgets for approval by the Chief Executive and Trustees and overseeing cash flow management
- Processing payroll/pensions on a monthly basis including monthly returns, payments to Inland Revenue and year end returns
- Preparing and submitting VAT returns, reviewing partial exemption calculations and ensuring payment or refunds are made or received on time
- Processing journals, accruals and prepayments
- Preparing regular trial balances and investigating miscellaneous accounting issues
- Maintaining the Fixed Assets Register
- Production of the year end accounts, liaising with auditors and assisting with annual audits
- Preparing and submitting regular Gift Aid claims, including overseeing all correspondence with donors
- Record and monitor restricted and unrestricted donations and claiming of tax relief on Gift Aid
- Filing of all accounting and corporate documentation, manually and electronically
- Line managing the Finance Assistant
- Overseeing the administration of Housing Benefit income; calculate and check receipts, chase arrears with the Housing Benefit office, submit returns and reconcile payments
- Overseeing the charity’s petty cash, including processing and reconciling of monthly petty cash sheets and recording of top-up of petty cash amounts, and issuing petty cash
- Overseeing the banking of all cheques, credit/debit card payments and cash as required. Preparing deposit slips and posting to the accounts. Checking that the amount banked agrees with the lists prepared on the opening of the post or the shop takings
- Overseeing the processing of all payments and maintaining accurate records of authorisation for the cheques raised
- Overseeing Companions’ allowances, savings and financial records – ensuring funds are available, schedules of payments, savings, loans and making payments on behalf of Companions
- Overseeing sales invoices as necessary. Controlling all outstanding invoices and ensuring prompt payment
- Managing the EPOS system to ensure accurate recording of all stock items and sales
- Managing the PDQ/card payments system
- Auditing reported shop takings against till receipts and sales records
- Performing monthly bank reconciliations
- Maintaining and checking of direct debit and standing order payments
- Providing financial information, reports and modelling exercises to support and assist the Chief Executive with grant funding applications and other projects
- Dealing with staff / supplier financial queries and requests
- Other ad-hoc accounting and financial duties that may be reasonably requested and as may arise from time to time necessary for financial integrity
General Responsibilities
- Attend meetings and contribute to the charity’s strategy and policy making
- Put in place robust financial systems and processes
- Improve on efficiencies and work towards reducing charity costs
- Perform any other duties as required by the Chief Executive, including additional duties and responsibilities to cover for holidays and absences
These duties are not exhaustive, and are subject to review with the postholder according to future developments within the charity
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Personal Specification
Essential Skills / Experience
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience of financial accounting (preferably part or fully qualified with any of the major accounting bodies)
- At least three years’ experience in the review and production of accounts
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of VAT
- Excellent IT skills with extensive experience of working with online accounting systems, Excel and MS Office
Desirable Skills / Experience
- Experience of using QuickBooks online accounting system
- Experience and understanding of Charity financial management (SORP)
- Experience of dealing with auditors and a clear understanding of their requirements
- Knowledge and experience of Gift Aid claims
- Willingness to be flexible, tolerant, and non-judgmental
- Understanding of Emmaus’ ethos
Personal Qualities
- A willingness to learn new skills as systems and needs develop
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Methodical approach and ability to maintain accurate and transparent data systems
- Highly organized and effective time manager with excellent prioritization skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work as part of a team and with diverse people
- Understanding and commitment to equal opportunities
- Self-motivated and responsible
- Great professionalism with high respect for confidentiality
- Adaptable / flexible
- Willingness to provide details for a DBS check
- Ability to embrace the values and aims of Emmaus Greenwich
To apply, please send your CV along with a covering letter outlining your relevant skills and experience.
Closing date: 5pm on 15th July 2020
For more information please visit our website
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Charity Finance Manager in a busy, friendly south London charity based in Lambeth. We work with children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism as well as mainstream young people. You will be part of a small senior management team and provide finance support and management accross seven teams.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is at the heart of the government’s economic and social agendas. A quarter of UK businesses are in our sectors and are among the most exciting and fastest growing of the whole economy. They provide 5.2 million jobs and deliver £38bn worth of exports. Our mission is to drive growth, enrich lives and promote Britain to the world.
Working in conjunction with our over 40 Arm’s Length Bodies we strive to create the conditions for everyone to enjoy our national culture, play sport, make the most of new technologies and have access to effective communications. Our sectors are critical to ensuring we have a strong place in the world - creating a global UK whose cultural, technological, creative, community and sporting assets mark us out as an essential partner for trade and investment. And making places that people want to live in, work in, invest in and visit.
As Team Leader in the Financial Accounting and Control Team (FACT), this role has overall responsibility for the National Lottery Distribution Fund (NLDF), supports the production of the DCMS group consolidated annual report and accounts and also manages the core department’s fixed asset register. This role is also expected to provide high quality technical advice to the wider business as required. The role involves line management of one Financial Accountant and indirect management of an apprentice
This is an exciting role which will provide the successful applicant with opportunities to work with a diverse group of Arms Length Bodies (ALBs), following a number of financial accounting frameworks including pure IFRS, UK GAAP and the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice.
Key responsibilities include:
- Planning and delivering the NLDF year end accounts
- Supervising the regular payments by the NLDF to the Lottery Distribution Bodies (LDB) and the monthly NLDF reporting to the LDBs
- Reviewing the year end data collection packs submitted by ALBs for the DCMS Group accounts to ensure these are complete, accurate and the submitted data passes all validations
- Preparing, reviewing, sense checking and proofreading of final DCMS Group accounts, including commissioning other sections, challenge and review and collation into a single cohesive document.
- Liaising with the National Audit Office and ensuring all necessary documentation is available for audit
- Managing of the Fixed Asset Register, ensuring all month end and year end fixed asset journals are posted and all reconciliations are completed on time, along with preparing the monthly depreciation forecasts
- Line managing a team of finance staff
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:
- Qualified financial accountant with significant experience of delivering in a large finance team
- Experience of preparing (or auditing) accounts in conformity with relevant accounting standards
- High level exposure and use of complex accounting systems, along with Advanced Excel skills
- High level management and interpersonal skills
- A background in audit (desirable) and experience of central government accounting (desirable)
For more information or an informal discussion, please apply via the link, or contact Michael Swinburn or Stuart Thomson at our retained search agent, Robertson Bell.
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Finance Manager
A prestigious performing arts school in South London is looking for a bright finance manager to join their tight-knit team. This role is ideal for a finalist accountant, looking for a broad role with development opportunities and a clear path to management. If you have experience of financial accounting in a charity or arts setting and are looking to broaden your experience and grow your career, this role could be great for you!
If you are part qualified, this role comes with study support as well as progression to line management and greater responsibilities. The salary for this role is £36,000 - £38,000.
Key Responsibilities:
- Overseeing month end
- Business partnering with key stakeholders in the organisation (the plan is for the successful candidate to take on more complex departments as they develop into this role)
- Responsibility of monthly and quarterly reconciliations of key control accounts
- Liaising with HR to process monthly payroll in line with all internal and external procedures
- Supporting the Head of Finance with the upcoming audit in September (you may be asked to come into the office for a few days in September for this, other than this it is estimated you will be working from home until early 2021)
Person Specification:
- A solutions-focused and adaptable personality is essential, this is a small finance team so co-operation is essential for the smooth running of the department
- Outstanding communication skills
- A solid grounding in financial accounting theory
Required experience:
- ACA/ACCA/CIMA part qualified or qualified
- Exposure to one of: Charity SORP, VAT partial exemption, charity or arts finance team (this exposure can be external e.g. through auditing accounts prepared in line with Charity SORP)
- Financial Accounting experience with either some exposure to, or desire to progress into business partnering responsibilities
- Experience of ledger management and complex reconciliations
A note on COVID-19:
- This organisation has already on-boarded someone remotely during lockdown and are on secure financial footing.
- All interviews will be held remotely and you will be working from home for the foreseeable future
Interviews are being held in the week commencing the 20th July, to find out more contact Emma at Allen Lane.
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