Finance Business Partner

We’re looking for a Finance Business Partner to join our Finance Global team and play a key role in financial planning and analysis. You’ll manage a diverse grant portfolio, ensure accurate donor reporting, and support programme teams in making the best use of resources. This is a great opportunity to apply your financial expertise in a strategic role that drives business performance and global impact.

Meet your Manager

In this role, you will be managed by Alice Salisbury who joined ClientEarth in 2019 and is based in London. Alice is one of two Finance Business Partner Managers working in the Finance Planning and Analysis team. From 2025 Alice’s portfolio will focus on ClientEarth’s European Systems. Previously Alice has worked closely with the Food, Ocean and Land Use systems in Africa, Asia and South America as well as in London. Alice has extensive experience of working in Finance and Programme teams in International NGOs including International Committee of the Red Cross and Conciliation Resources. Working with Directors, Heads and the Programme Management Group Alice ensures transparency, value for money and efficiency across ClientEarth and that teams and that individuals within ClientEarth feel confident with their budgets. Alice enjoys supporting her team to develop and enjoy their work.

Main Duties

• Lead on the financial management of a portfolio of departments and projects as part of a team of FBPs supporting Programme teams, keeping budgets under continuous review, and providing regular financial information and analysis.
• Assist the Programme Management Group to keep track and reconcile actual and committed project expenditure.
• Maintain organisational budget and re-forecasts for the assigned portfolio of grants, working to agreed organisation-level timetables - through regular updates to individual projects and portfolio review with relevant budget holders and Development.
• Draft budgets for concept notes and proposals in line with donor requirements and ClientEarth standards.
• Ensure that the financial aspects, reporting and audit requirements of grant/donor funded projects are aligned with donors’ contractual requirements and ClientEarth standards.

See the job description (below) for a full list of duties for this role.

Role requirements

• Demonstrable experience of financial administration of a portfolio of grants (essential)
• Experience of communicating complex budgets to an audience with different levels of experience with budgets (essential)
• Experience and knowledge of donor funding and compliance (essential)
• Experience of working with multiple currencies (essential)
• Good knowledge of charity financial processes including allocation of project costs and apportionment of cost recovery (desirable)
• Qualified Accountant (desirable)

See the job description (below) for a full list of requirements for this role.

Note to candidates: We know that long lists of criteria can be daunting and that some candidates will not apply for a role unless they feel they are 100% qualified. If you feel you meet at least some of the essential criteria, we still encourage you to apply.

Further Information

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Flexible working:  We are proud to be a Flexa accredited Employer. Visit our Flexa Employer page for more information on our approach to flexible working. Our flexible working policy allows our people the choice to decide to work from home/another location in the country where their contract of employment is issued for 80% of their month, with the other 20% of their month being office-based  See our Benefits page for more.

ClientEarth values diversity and inclusion and the benefits this brings. We aim to appoint the most suitable candidate at all times and welcome applications from people from all different backgrounds. 

Please note that ClientEarth is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in the UK.

ClientEarth is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice or legal services to third parties.