Associate Director, Corporate Services - Penicuik, United Kingdom - GALVmed

Description

FULLTIME & PERMANENT POSITION

Job title Associate Director, Corporate Services

Location Edinburgh, Scotland

Reporting line Senior Director, Corporate Services


Main purpose and scope of the job

Overall responsibility for the strategic and organisational financial compliance of GALVmed, and the efficient and effective management of the governance and Corporate Services activities including insurance, risk management, treasury management, IT, Indian Liaison Office (ILO) compliance and portfolio management activities.

Key activities

Financial Compliance

• Responsible for all strategic and financial compliance activities, including: funding proposal financial contributions; funded programme compliance; review of project contract financial commitments whilst working collaboratively and closely with the Snr Manager, Finance as necessary

Corporate Services

• Responsible for risk management including: risk management framework and policy; strengthening the risk culture across GALVmed's business model; corporate and project risk identification and mitigation; and project risk escalation
• Responsible for monitoring, adoption and regular review of all corporate policies (e.g., Anti-Bribery & Fraud)
• Undertake treasury management activities including deposit arrangements in compliance with the Liquidity Management Policy
• Administration of all insurance renewals (exc. professional indemnity insurance)
• Ensure full compliance with ILO statutory requirements and other country compliance as required

Governance

• Support the Company Secretary (SD, F&CS) to ensure compliance with statute and statutory bodies, adoption of best practice in its operation
• Ensure GALVmed's governance activities (Board, Members, AGM and Committee), especially in relation to meetings event planning and management, are undertaken efficiently and effectively.
• Supervise, support and ensure the function's activities are delivered to the highest standard whilst optimising resource utilisation.

Portfolio

• Support the Snr Portfolio Manager to ensure adoption of GALVmed's Strategy Execution (Handbook), project management disciplines (64PM) and performance management (Scan and Pulse) throughout GALVmed's project life cycle as appropriate.

Audit

• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements during the statutory accounts and audit process including responsibility for the preparation of the Trustees' Report (working closely with the Snr Manager, Finance).

Finance & Risk Committee

• Attend, prepare papers and present to the Finance & Risk Committee on relevant topics.

Other

• Ensure the functioning and effective management of the IT infrastructure to ensure that a robust and secure IT system is in place.
• Accountable for office management, ensuring that all GALVmed facilities operate effectively.

Deputise and support the SD, F&CS as necessary especially in strategic financial management


Qualifications and experience Essential:

• CCAB qualified, ideally Chartered Accountant
• Minimum of 8 years' finance experience in a small organization
• Experience of governance responsibilities & executive interaction.
• Experience with funder organisations and their reporting requirements
• Well versed with internal controls from a best practice, embedding & compliance perspective
• Understanding of the charity sector and statutory reporting requirements and future developments
• Experience of overseeing IT and office management in a small organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to communicate complex financial theories to lay individuals.
• Experience in working in a multicultural organisations
• Excel literate to a detailed degree plus experience of other MS Office programmes.

Salary:
£58,000.00-£64,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Life insurance
• Relocation assistance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Penicuik