Group Fc - London, United Kingdom - Accounting for International Development

Accounting for International Development

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Innovative non-profit actively supporting enviromental issues internationally seek senior finance professional during period of change and development.

As Group Financial Controller, you will play a leading role in the Enabling Services team, who together enable the organization to deliver innovation that creates the change we have committed to, meet our funders' needs, and support our partners and communityto work seamlessly alongside us.

The principal challenge for the finance leadership is to evolve our finance function from one optimized for serving a set of clearly specified, relatively stable, annually recurring programmes funded by a single large grantor to one designed for a multi-funderenvironment in which agility, responsiveness, financial acumen, risk intelligence and, above all, proactive business partnering and entrepreneurship in service of momentum and impact are critical.

These success factors must be underpinned by a focus on userexperience and on fit-for-purpose platforms, processes, procedures, systems, and tools

Teams: Finance, Legal, Operations, IT, People, Project teams

ABOUT YOU

Education/Qualifications

A university degree in business administration, financial management, operations, or a similar field.
Holder of a recognised accounting qualification with over six years post qualification experience.

Experience

5 years Group FC experience with min 3 years operating internationally.
Experience in the preparation of management, statutory and Group consolidation accounts.
Substantial experience of working in complex entities with multinational interests and distributed teams (working in different locations and through remote or virtual working) and experience of managing finance teams (preferable European).
Experience of multiple sectors, ideally with a mix of public and private; experience in the notforprofit sector/grant making environment including EU grant funding would be beneficial.
Experience with a variety of ERP systems, ideally including Unit
Bid, B2B sales, and fundraising business experience would be helpful.

Skills

Ability to present financial information in a clear, concise and accessible way for diverse audiences.
Able to work in an international, distributed, and multicultural team; strong awareness of other cultures and working practices.
Highlydeveloped adaptive leadership / leadership in complexity skills, emphasizing listening to learn, empathy, humancentred design, agility, empowerment, and collaboration.
Familiarity and proficiency in coaching others; able to build capacity by investing in the development of others and in the development of self.
Evidence of being able to build effective and sustainable relationships externally as well as internally.
Fluency in English and another European language.