Knowledge, qualifications and experience

• Experience working as a finance business partner or financial management in a senior position in the charity sector, ideally with experience working in offices overseas.
• Proven experience in budgeting and forecasting with a mix of restricted and unrestricted funds
• Qualified accountant (CIMA, ACA, ACCA)
• Experience interpreting the needs of others, creating solution to address the organisational needs, and creating/adapting tools and systems to address people’s needs.
• Experience of project management across an organisation including an ability and willingness to undertake ‘hands-on’ tasks such as preparing budgets, cash flows and other financial planning, management and control processes
• Understanding of donor environment, grant making processes and compliance processes.
• Understanding of key operational and strategic considerations relating to institutional fundraising
• Track record in anticipating change, understanding its impact on the organisation and supporting process to adapt to change
• Track record in working with people without line management responsibility, and influencing change
• A track record in proven line management skills with the ability to work collaboratively and effectively with others to deliver results, mentoring and strengthening capacities of finance staff

Country programme Business Partnering

• Working together with country offices to ensure the timely and appropriate preparation and uploading of budgets and longer-term financial plans.
• Oversee country monthly and quarterly management accounts to assess quality and trends and participating in business reviews with country teams of financial performance.
• Support Finance Managers on financial management of projects and reporting, including the preparation of financial information required for the year-end accounts, and statutory audits.
• Support financial components of donor reporting, ensuring reporting timelines are met and compliance with donor reporting requirements across a range of donors.
• Work with Finance Managers and leadership in-country to implement audit recommendations.
• Support Finance Managers in-country to provide financial information and analysis to support the development of business cases / fundraising bids.

Organisational business partnering

• Provide sound financial strategic advice and analysis to assist the Director of Finance and Operations,
• Head of Programmes, leadership and senior staff in decision making.
• Provide finance support to organisation-wide initiatives and Finance projects (e.g., changes or improvements to financial processes and systems).
• Enable the reporting key trends, analysis and accounts to the leadership accurately and to time
• Oversee the implementation of cost recovery policies and risk management procedures in country offices, and sign off budgets for country fundraising proposals