Finance jobs in london, essex
About The Advocacy Project
We help people speak up and make decisions about their health, wellbeing and social care. We’re here to make sure people across all ages and care groups can understand their rights, make effective choices about their lives and voice their concerns.
Some of the ways we do this include:
·advocacy services that make sure people can express their wishes when decisions are being made about their care or wellbeing
·user involvement projects that help organisations improve what they offer by listening to people who use their services
·local Healthwatch organisations, which act as health and social care champions for the areas they serve and give people a direct channel to share their feedback
· innovative Personal Health Budget projects that allow people to access items and services to improve their wellbeing.
Our services are independent, confidential, and free to those receiving them. Together, our teams are standing up for essential rights and supporting people to have a say on the issues that matter to them.
About the role
This position involves supporting the Finance department by providing financial assistance to the Head of Finance in maintaining the organisation’s financial records and internal controls.
You will utilise your finance skills to ensure that transactions are accurately and promptly recorded, and you’ll assist in preparing high-quality month-end reports. You will also collaborate closely with the Finance Officer and wider teams to contribute to the organisation’s financial reporting and planning.
Key responsibilities
Prepare monthly management accounts and internal reports for departmental managers and participate in regular review meetings; conduct variance analysis against budget and forecasts and provide commentary for senior management.
- Prepare, check, and submit end-of-month financial data to external accountants.
- Respond to internal and external finance queries in a timely and professional manner.
- Process the month-end transactions on Quick Books.
- Assist the Head of Finance with payroll processing, audits, financial reports, and ad hoc finance-related tasks.
- Prepare budgets and financial forecasts in collaboration with the Head of Finance and ensure accurate upload into the financial system.
- Monitor cash flow and support cash flow forecasting.
- Contribute to the development and enhancement of financial procedures and systems to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Assist with the preparation of year-end accounts and liaise with auditors as required.
- Ensure compliance with relevant financial regulations, internal policies, and reporting standards.
- Support the Finance Officer in reconciling bank accounts.
- Undertake any other duties as required by the Head of Finance to support the effective running of the finance function.
General responsibilities
- Work according to the Equality Act 2010 and other forms of legislation that combat discrimination and promote equality and diversity.
- Participate in personal, team and organisational development.
- Contribute to internal and external monitoring reports.
- Adhere to organisational policies, including those related to health & safety, safeguarding, and risk management.
- Work in alignment with our mission, vision, and values.
Person specification
We welcome applications from people with transferrable skills and qualities, as well as those with diverse employment histories and personal backgrounds.
Essential qualities and attributes:
- Proven experience in a finance role, preferably in a management accounting or analytical capacity.
- Strong understanding of financial principles, reporting, and analysis
- Excellent attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
- Proficiency in Excel and financial software systems.
- Highly organised with the ability to prioritise a heavy workload and multi-task
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance colleagues.
- Ability to work flexibly and to tight deadlines
- A proactive, solution-focused approach to improving systems and processes.
Desirable knowledge, experience and qualifications:
- Accounting qualification or studying towards an accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- Experience of working in the charitable or voluntary sector
- Knowledge of data protection regulations and managing confidential information.
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This role involves managing key operational and governance functions, supporting the Executive Director and President, and ensuring the smooth running of various committees and Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The Executive Administrator will also assist with the ABN fellowship scheme.
Key Responsibilities of the Executive Administrator
Executive & Governance Support
- Provide administrative support to the Executive Director and President.
- Manage the President’s inbox, responding to or escalating queries as appropriate.
- Coordinate and schedule meetings, including preparing agendas and drafting and distributing minutes.
- Process and track expense claims for the Council and Executive team.
- Organise bookings for the President, including travel, hotels, and restaurants.
Committee & Fellowship Support
- Provide full administrative support to the Services Committee, including scheduling meetings, preparing documents, and taking minutes.
- Undertake projects for the Services Committee as required, including data analysis
- Assist Governance & Grants Manager with the administration of the ABN Fellowship Programme, including maintaining records and supporting application and review processes.
- Liaise with Special Interest Groups (SIGs) on behalf of ABN
Financial & Operational Support
- Ensure office supplies are maintained, including stationery and consumables
- Assist with financial administration, including processing expenses and payments.
- Liaise with finance teams to ensure smooth financial operations.
- Deputise for Website & Finance Officer in their absence
- Assist with budget tracking and financial reporting as required.
The ABN has a small office team, and all staff members are required to take on duties outside of their main job description from time to time.
Skills & Experience Required
- Previous experience in an administrative or executive support role
- Ability to work in a small team
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel
- Strong organisational skills with attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work under pressure
- Experience handling financial processes, such as expenses and budget tracking
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and administrative systems
- Desirable: Experience in a membership organisation or medical association
- Desirable: Experience of the medical, healthcare or research sectors is welcomed
Why Join Us?
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and impactful role supporting professionals in neurology. The ABN offers a collaborative work environment with opportunities for professional growth and development.
If you are a proactive administrator looking to take on a varied role within a prestigious medical association, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave + 8 public holidays (pro-rata)
- Additional annual leave days after 3 years of service
- Generous pension contributions: you put in 1%, we’ll put in 10%
- Professional development programme including regular 1:1s, appraisals and training opportunities
- Hybrid working and flexible hours
- Time off in lieu for ABN event attendance
Commitment to Equality Diversity and Inclusion
We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Room to Heal is looking for a Co-Director for Finance & Fundraising to work with our Co-Director for Frontline Operations to support the thriving of our community.
About us
Room to Heal is an established therapeutic community in London. We support refugees and people seeking asylum, many of whom are torture survivors, through an integrated programme of therapeutic and casework assistance, in the context of a community of survivors. Our approach recognises the political context of our community members’ multiple and ongoing experiences of trauma and marginalisation including in their home country, on their journey to, and within, the UK. We offer long term and holistic support.
We are looking for a Co-Director who:
- Will ensure the overall financial sustainability of the charity through development of the fundraising strategy and oversight of its implementation
- Understands the experiences of our members in order to sustain Room to Heal’s therapeutic community and ensure the safety and appropriateness of all of our services
- Has awareness and interest in psychotherapy and group work
- Makes strategic decisions that centre the experience of refugees and people seeking asylum alongside maintaining the sustainability of the organisation
- Has the drive, care and vision to create new opportunities to support refugees and people seeking asylum and to learn and share experiences through external networks and partnerships in the UK and internationally
- Is able to speak with authenticity and challenge injustices knowing directly what the impact is due to own lived experience
- Can lead by consensus and collaboration and has a strong belief in the therapeutic benefits of community.
We strongly encourage applications from those with some lived experience of the issues that our community members are experiencing.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Saferworld is currently seeking a Finance Coordinator to join our Conflict Advisory Unit on the Women, Peace, and Security Helpdesk contract. In this role, you will provide efficient and compliant financial management support for our on-demand service, which is crucial for advising a diverse range of aid actors—including donor institutions, UN agencies, NGOs, civil society organisations, financial institutions, and the private sector—on integrating conflict and gender sensitivity into their strategies. Reporting to the Project Manager- Women, Peace and Security, you will ensure accurate financial allocations and record-keeping across helpdesk consortium members, align our operations with Saferworld’s finance system, and support all related audit processes, working closely with both the operational team and our finance colleagues. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to gender-sensitive conflict and security policies and to advance Saferworld's mission and vision.
Closing Date: 29 April 2025
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Business Analyst – Finance
Reference: APR20255156
Location: Flexible in UK
Contract: Fixed Term for 12 months
Hours: Full-Time, 37.5 hours per week.
Salary: £33,027.00 - £35,259.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension Scheme, Life Assurance Scheme, 26 days' Annual Leave
Note: Whilst the role is offered full time we are open to applications from anyone able to work at least 22.5 hours per week.
Nature is in Crisis, and here at the RSPB we are working across the UK and overseas to save it. As the UK's largest nature conservation charity, with a workforce of over 14,000 employees and volunteers, we have an ambitious programme of work to transform our approach and deepen our impact.
We have an exciting opportunity for a talented business analyst to join our Finance team. The successful candidate will support an integrated programme and project management team, who deliver organisational wide people and business change across the RSPB. The work will be fast paced, far reaching and innovative, covering all elements of our operations.
You can be based anywhere in the UK, and we are very supportive of flexible working. We value and understand the importance of different voices, experiences, perspectives and backgrounds within our workforce and strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community.
What's the role about?
As part of the financial planning and reporting team you will support the finance business partners and be responsible for delivering business analysis support and insight (e.g. data analysis, financial analysis, process mapping, etc.) to projects and programmes across the UK that support the RSPB 2030 strategy.
Key activities will include:
Supporting the RSPB Finance and Transformation team in delivering business analysis to support key finance-centric projects and programmes. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Data analysis
- Process mapping and review
- Financial analysis and reporting
Supporting the project and programme managers in developing robust business cases, modelling financial impacts and risks, and reviewing and tracking financial benefits
Communicating and engaging with colleagues and stakeholders at a variety of levels. You will be confident in articulating your business analysis work in a number of ways and will be able to confidently engage Senior Management to drive and manage positive change and maintain their support throughout your business analysis.
What we need from you:
- Educated to degree level and/or have sufficient experience to be able to carry out the duties to a high level.
- Knowledge of financial management and processes (including double-entry accounts).
- Advanced spreadsheet skills.
- Excellent numerical skills.
- Ability to evaluate incomplete and complex financial information, to develop and consider a range of possible options and make a judgement as to the recommended course of action.
- Ability to produce clear written communications
- Proven Time management and organisational skills
- Ability to act as a critical-friend to board level and senior managers balancing challenge and support - Desirable
- Ability to convey appropriate financial messages to various audiences - Desirable
- Proven ability to understand business issues and identify interventions to improve business performance - Desirable
- Proven experience of making recommendations to decision makers through analysis of financial information, modelling scenarios and paying due regard to risk and control issues - Desirable
- Proven experience of planning, co-ordinating, and delivering projects that contribute towards improved profitability / organisational efficiency - Desirable
- Management accounting experience - Desirable
The RSPB reserves the right to extend or make this role permanent without further advertising dependent on business needs at the end of the contract term.
Closing date: 23:59, Fri, 2nd May 2025
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position asap.
Interested?
If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.
We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application.
The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
The RSPB is a licenced sponsor. This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.
As part of this application you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete a short form. If you wish to provide a cover letter with your application, please include this at the end of your CV document upload. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.
No agencies please.
The RSPB brings people together – people like you – to protect the things that matter to us all.



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Venn Group are delighted to be exclusively partnered with The Environmental Investigation Agency to recruit for a Projects Finance Manager. This is a full-time, permanent role within the Finance team and will focus on the financial management of various campaigns and projects. The role offers the opportunity to work on diverse projects and plays a key role in fund management and donor reporting.
Key responsibilities of the role:
- Lead on budgeting, forecasting, and financial monitoring for projects and grants
- Assist with preparation of annual accounts, organisational audits, and management reports
- Carrying out audit for specific projects and reporting this back to the finance team
- Oversee project budgets, cash flow forecasts, and variance analysis
- Manage donor compliance, ensuring that all statutory requirements are met
- Prepare monthly financial reports, tracking project income and expenditures
- Support financial audits and liaise with project partners, funders, and auditors
- Provide strategic financial insights to the Head of Finance and senior management
- Ensure financial systems and processes align with donor requirements and project needs
- Assist with preparing funding applications and donor reports
- Maintain accurate financial records and ensure timely reconciliation of expenses
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide financial support for campaigns and projects
Ideal candidate profile:
- Proficient in Excel, Outlook, and financial ERP systems such as Sage Intacct
- At least 3 years' post-qualification experience (ACCA or equivalent) with strong financial analysis and forecasting skills
- Proven ability to manage non-profit budgets, grants, and donor compliance
- Experience handling project finances across multiple partners and international teams
- Confident preparing financial records for audit and liaising with auditors
- Strong interpersonal skills, attention to detail, and ability to work under pressure
Desirable:
- Knowledge of Charity SORP and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Experience in managing risk and financial controls for project funds
- Awareness of changing financial regulations and donor requirements
Location: Angel, Islington
Salary: £43,000 - £48,000 per annum + benefits
Working hours: Full Time
Working Pattern: Hybrid (at least 2 days in the office, more expected during probation and induction period)
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Early applications are encouraged as this vacancy is being actively shortlisted.
In this exciting new role, we are looking for a passionate and ambitious HR Manager to join our team and help us to enhance our team’s performance and wellbeing, our values-led culture, and further enhance our diversity and inclusion.
In this stand-alone role, you will work with the Director of Finance & Operations (DFO) to oversee all aspects of HR practices and processes. You will ensure compliance with employment law, and that all our HR policies, processes, and systems are up to date, simple and well-understood.
You will lead the day-to-day HR function providing support to staff across all areas of HR. This will include managing all our HR systems, providing expert advice and guidance to staff, and overseeing each employee's journey from induction to exit.
You will implement talent retention strategies and ensure Switchback is a fulfilling place to work with a real sense of belonging in the team.
Oversee all recruitment processes focusing on supporting applicants and staff to have the best experience.
You will be passionate about the idea of helping others to be their best and putting in place systems and processes to make that possible. You will be excited about making significant contributions to developing our HR practice and processes.
Above all, you’ll be passionate about Switchback’s purpose and values, and keen to join an organisation that wants to support young men make real, lasting change through front-line work and big ambitions to transform the system.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Contract: Full time (35 hours per week), Fixed Term Contract, 18 months
Salary: £40,000- £41,000 p.a.
Job Summary
The purpose of this role is to bring additional operational capacity to new church plants and partnerships. This role will work across multiple partnerships on a fixed term basis to support the operational set up of new partnerships, and leading on operational improvements where there are existing processes.
This role will be pivotal in establishing sustainable operational excellence, allowing ministry teams to undertake missional work.
Job responsibilities
- Support new church partnerships and plants for a fixed term to develop strong operational functions.
- Work collaboratively with parish team members, scoping the operational needs that require supporting, reviewing or developing
- Set-up new or review existing operational functions, including: HR and recruitment, finance, reporting, fundraising, buildings management.
- Develop digital and communications processes including website development and newsletter templates.
- Lead on development and implementation of volunteer and event management systems.
- Work with parish leaders to develop operational sustainability beyond the term of this role.
- Identify operational needs in support of missional activities, supporting missional project planning and project management.
- Support with partnership reporting processes as part of the Hackney and Islington funded programme.
- Develop a pipeline of income generation opportunities, including rental agreements and grant funding.
- Develop an operational toolkit of policies and best practice for future plants and partnerships
Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full details on the main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Essential
- Experience implementing new systems
- Change management
- Experience of grant management or reporting on funding objectives
- Strong operational and administrative skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Knowledge of recruitment processes
- Strong IT skills
- Right to work in UK
- Practicing Christian, committed to upholding the values and mission of the Church of England
- The person will not require a DBS check
Desirable
- Knowledge of good governance practices
- Relevant Project Management qualification
- Relevant finance or HR administration qualification
- Experience of parish operations
Please refer to the attached Job Description for the full details on Person Specification.
About the London Diocesan Fund
The London Diocesan Fund (LDF) is the employment body that serves and supports the Diocese of London and Church of England. The Diocese of London comprises of c400 parishes north of the River Thames and within the M25 motorway.
The Church of England in London is growing, vibrant and at the heart of communities throughout the capital. At the London Diocesan Fund, we seek to do everything we can to support this mission and growth, using our resources to help our parishes and chaplains to serve over 4 million people.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
The Diocese of London is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workforce which represents our context and wider community.
We are aware that those of Global Majority Heritage/United Kingdom Minority Ethnic (GMH/UKME), women, and disabled people are currently under-represented among our clergy and workforce, and we particularly encourage applications from those with the relevant skills and experience that will increase this representation.
Safeguarding
The Diocese of London is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Benefits of working with us
The LDF offers a supportive working environment, opportunity for career development and the following financial benefits:
- Competitive remuneration package
- 27 annual leave days to rise to 30 after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
- 15% employer pension contribution and salary sacrifice available
- Death in service benefit x3 of basic gross salary
- Enhanced maternity leave of six months full pay, after 12 months of employment
- Season ticket loans for public transport
- Access to Benenden Health Insurance
- EAP counselling through Health Assured
- Up to £100 for eye test and contribution to spectacles
- Two additional paid days for community volunteering
Interviews will be held on 22 May 2025 in the Hackney or Islington area.
For every Londoner to encounter the love of God in Christ




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We are recruiting for a short term temporary Income and Reconciliations Officer for a high profile social welfare charity. You will need to have worked in Finance for a large organisation with high transactional volumes, ideally in the receivables area. Immediate start!
Hybrid working min 2 days in their London Office
The Role
To accurately record and reconcile circa 140 million of charitable income across three entities, ensuring that agreed policies and procedures are adhered to.
To liaise with staff across the charity to ensure that unrecorded and unreconciled income is resolved on a timely basis.
To deal with income queries on a timely basis, providing a good level of service to internal and external customers.
To produce and distribute aged debtor reports and ensure that debts are followed up by those responsible, escalating issues to management as required.
To provide guidance and support to non-Finance staff managing income processes
The Candidate
Proven track record in a finance role in a large and complex environment with high transactional volumes, preferably in Receivables.
Able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of double entry book-keeping.
Experience of completing large and complex reconciliations using data from multiple databases
Experience of using Microsoft Excel to critically analyse data through the use of Pivot tables, VLOOKUP etc
Hold a current DBS
IMPORTANT NOTE
Our aim is to respond to all successful applications within 5 days. If you havent been contacted within 5 days your application has been unsuccessful and your details will not be held further but we positively encourage you to apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.
We apologise that we cannot contact everybody in person but thank you in advance for your interest.
Third Solutions encourages applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Third Solutions acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003.
A small but long-standing Care Provider in London is looking to take on a Head of Management Reporting to work closely with the CFO, whilst leading a team of Finance Business Partners and a Payroll Manager.
The organisation focuses on providing care and support to those in need in their communities, including people with a mental health need, learning disability and the elderly. The organisation provided great quality, dedicated services to help individuals to live a dignified and full life.
This is a chance for an experienced finance professional to take on new, exciting role with a great opportunity to make a real difference and create change.
Responsibilities:
- Delivery of Management Accounts, budgeting and forecasting
- Manage a team of Finance Business Partners and a Payroll professional, and liaise with a range of stakeholders
- Support in financial modelling including automating their financial system to drive efficiencies
- Liaise with a range of stakeholders at all levels and be comfortable presenting to senior leadership and board
Requirements:
- Qualified Accountant with experience in Management Reporting and Business Partnering at Finance Manager / Head of Level
- Social Care Experience greatly desired (charity, not for profit or housing if not)
- Happy managing staff and working with a variety of stakeholders
- Knowledge of payroll process
If you are looking for your next opportunity to work in a great organisation and help make improvements in processes and the team, please do apply ASAP!
In our company values we aim for equity at all stages of the recruitment process, please let us know if we can do anything to make the process more accessible to you.
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My client is a UK health charity that works to transform care and patient experience; from small but impactful initiatives through to funding pioneering technology. With an investment portfolio of £150 million, their income is generated through property management as well as a traditional fundraising approach.
The finance function has recently been transitioned from being fully outsourced to an in-house operation. With new people, processes and systems bedding in, they are looking for interim support to assist with year end delivery and process review.
Key deliverables:
Support the Director of Finance with the production of their year end accounts including fixed asset register, investment schedules and grant disclosures.
Completion of all outstanding reconciliation work.
Assist with the documenting and refining of finance processes to ensure a structure monthly close and reporting cycle.
The successful candidate will be a fully qualified Accountant with a track record of preparing accounts to Charity SORP (audit or internal accounting). Previous experience of dealing with property income would be an advantage, although not essential. You will however combine technical excellent with a collaborative, hands on approach, willing to get involved and solve problems.
With flexible office working practices, this role is offered on a hybrid basis with 2 days a week in their London office.
Group FP&A Manager | £450 - £500 per day (Umbrella) | Hybrid | London | 6-months +
For a large international organisation, we are recruiting an Interim Group FP&A Manager who will coordinate and produce consolidated financial plans, budgets, and forecasts. The Group FP&A Manager will contribute to planning activity and data across Finance, working closely with Regional Finance Directors to ensure consistency of all planning and forecasting. This role will report to the Director of Group Planning and Reporting and will lead, manage, and motivate a Financial Planning Analyst. This role is for a minimum of 6-months and could be extended.
Main Duties:
- Provide a financial planning, forecasting and management reporting service in the UK, Regions, and international business units across Group level.
- Deliver monthly MI reports
- Coordination and delivery of annual budget, quarterly forecasts and monthly re-forecasts
- Support multi-year planning
- Tracking and forecasting of financial KPIs
- Support the Director of Group Planning and Reporting in preparing reports for Exec on reporting and planning deliverables
- Lead continuous improvement of processes across monthly close, financial commentary and analysis and cash-flow forecasting
- Ensure the MI and forecasts are fit-for-purpose during a period of transformation and change
- Play a key role in the implementation of a new planning and reporting tool as part of a global finance transformation programme
- Set planning and forecasting timetables for the organisation
- Work closely with the Head of Strategic Planning and coordinate with the UK and Regional finance teams to ensure alignment of all financial planning activity
- Support strategy in the collation and consolidation of 5-year planning
- Development and rollout of multi-year planning workbooks and processes
- Work closely with Shared Service Centre in India, supporting the FP&A team in-country
- Lead, manage and motivate one Financial Planning Analyst
Person Specification:
- Qualified Accountant with proven Group-level FP&A experience including MI reporting
- Experience managing the annual planning and reporting calendar
- Ability to build budgets, forecasts, and annual plans at Group level
- Annual planning and reporting at Group-level
- International and multi-cultural company experience
- SAP experience, financial modelling, and advanced Excel
- Shared Services experience
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As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.
Group Financial Controller | up to £700 per day (Umbrella) | Hybrid | London | 12-months +
For a large international organisation, we are recruiting an Interim Group Financial Controller to focus on their short-term cash flow forecast model, intercompany, and trapped cash. Critically, this role will fully implement and embed the use of a 13-week short term cashflow forecast and will oversee the cash repatriation to the UK from overseas entities, liaising with Treasury, Tax, FP&A, Group Statutory Reporting, and the MSP. The Group Financial Controller will also lead monthly close, balance sheet integrity, intercompany processes and compliance, and develop insight and understanding of the company's working capital to drive initiatives to optimise.
Main Duties:
- Fully develop and embed the short-term 13-week cash flow forecast and process notes with the goal of transferring this to the MSP
- Coordinate work across Financial Control, Tax, and Treasury to improve cash repatriations to the UK (trapped cash)
- Leadership of change across global financial control activities including monthly-close, balance sheet integrity, intercompany processes and financial regulation compliance
- Partner with business units and regions to support change in the transactional finance activities, monthly close and financial compliance is carried out.
- Lead multiple stakeholders across territories to ensure consistent standards and performance including interaction with the MSP
- Drive improvement in understanding and reporting of working capital across the group and entities
- Key role in coordinating activity across Treasury, Tax, FP&A, Group Statutory reporting and the Managed Service Provider as well as overseas Finance teams to maximise accuracy
- Ensure strong Audit readiness, managing relationships with internal / external auditors
- Line management of 3 Finance Controllers (functional and business units)
Person Specification:
- Qualified Accountant with proven experience at Group-level Financial Control
- Experience of embedding and managing short-term cash-flow models and forecasting
- Experience of trapped cash and the repatriation of cash across multiple territories to the UK
- Strong intercompany experience
- Strong experience of bid data
- Experience of leading a geographically dispersed and culturally diverse team
- Experience leading a Finance team supporting multiple business models
- Experience working in a matrix management structure
- SAP experience
- Shared Services experience
- Experience of leading large change projects / initiatives
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Reporting to: Head of Finance
Contract: 35 hours per week (1.0 FTE). Part time also considered (minimum 21 hours per week (0.6FTE)
Location: UK / Flexible
Who we are
Unlimit Health is an international organisation working to end parasitic disease. We work closely with affected countries, sharing evidence and expertise to eliminate preventable infections. Our purpose is to support people to live healthy lives, free from limiting disease.
Our vision is for resilient systems that sustain good health, so everyone everywhere can reach their full potential. We achieve this by working across multiple sectors in numerous countries to deliver effective and robust health programmes that have a lasting impact.
We were founded in 2002 with a £20m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and started life as a research group, the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative, within Imperial College London. Consistently ranked globally as one of the most cost-effective non-profit initiatives, we have received significant funding since our inception including from the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), USAID and philanthropic investors.
What we do
Our work includes:
- Evidence-based disease elimination support
- Cross-sectoral health systems strengthening
- Building collaborative partnerships
Our main area of focus is the elimination of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases (intestinal worms). Endemic infections of these parasitic worms are found in some of the world’s most marginalised communities, and they can have a hugely detrimental effect on individuals, including:
- Reduced productivity
- Internal organ damage
- Impaired child development
- Reduced school attendance
- Increased risk of HIV in women
- Infertility
The role
This is an exciting role, to liaise and support partner organisations to ensure accounting records are complete, accurate, and up to date, coded correctly on UH’s cashbooks and reconciled against bank statements. You will also provide technical support to partners’ finance staff and train them on the use of the cashbooks and financial reporting to UH.
You will be educated to degree level and have experience in a fast-paced and complex finance role. You should have experience of working with technical accounting packages as well as experience in financial planning and monitoring.
The role is fast-paced and complex, and the ideal candidate will need to have proven inter-personal skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to assess priorities, organise workloads and initiate action and problem solve.
To apply
To apply, please submit an up-to-date CV and covering letter outlining your suitability for the role according to the job description and person specification.
Closing date: 6th May at 9am
Interview dates: W/C 19th May
Please ensure you are available to attend an interview on these dates.
Applicants are required to have the right to work in the UK, and documentary evidence will be requested at the interview stage.
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REF-221065
Your new company
A large, London-based charity.
Your new role
Reporting to the Deputy Financial Controller, you will help to support the organisation's year-end and audit process by preparing and providing information for the external audit as required.
Duties include assisting the finance team by consolidating financial information for both the UK and overseas divisions; reviewing various balances; supporting the production of financial statements and liaising with auditors. The anticipated duration is 6 months+.
To start ASAP.
Hybrid working: 2 days per month in the office.
What you'll need to succeed
You will be an experienced Financial Accountant, ideally with charity sector experience.
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
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