Finance Assistant - Shared Services

About MSI

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has almost 9,000 team members working in 36 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centred care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too. 

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

The Finance Assistant is responsible for assisting the payroll and purchase ledger team with the day-to-day processes and requirements for the MSI’s global support office and MSI Reproductive Choices UK. This role will involve ensuring accurate and timely payroll and PL processing, compliance with government regulations, maintaining records and supporting the PL Manager and Payroll Manager in streamlining processes.

You will need an excellent knowledge of Excel, good attention to detail and experience of Dayforce Payroll Systems and Purchase ledger systems is desirable.

Working across the UK finance team, you will need excellent communication skills and be motivated to seek out answers and provide resolution.

About You

For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.

This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.

Our values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction. They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all that they do.

We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open-mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.

We seek exceptional communicators who are self-motivated, solutions-driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous setting.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills:

• Ability to work in a diverse and inclusive environment, respecting and collaborating with all individuals equally, and with a commitment to overcome bias and prejudice.
• Excellent numerical and excel skills.
• Effective communicator, a good listener.
• Strong team player – someone who can build good relationships both within the global finance function and in the wider organisation.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to juggle multiple pieces of work simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience:

• Experience of working within a busy finance team servicing a workforce of 250+.
• Previous experience of working in a payroll environment.
• Experience in the use of payroll software and purchase order systems such as Dayforce/Ceridian or similar payroll systems.
• Experience in the use of Microsoft Excel.
• Experienced in Sun Accounts or other similar accounts systems.

Formal education/qualification

• CIPP qualified, or working towards a CIPP qualification would be desirable, but is not essential for this role.

Please view the job framework on our website.

Location: London UK, 2 days per week in the office.

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (For UK based team members).

Contract type: 6 month fixed term contract.

Salary: £24,975 - £31,213 per annum for UK based candidates. Discretionary bonus + benefits. For all other locations, the salary will be banded within the national context.

Salary band: BG 5

Closing date: 25th March 2025 (midnight GMT). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.

For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.