Audit & Assurance

• Lead the annual organisational audit: prepare schedules, financial statements, and required disclosures.
• Ensure compliance with charity accounting standards (SORP)
• Oversee financial donor audits, ensuring timely, accurate responses and evidence.
• Strengthen processes to maintain a clean audit trail across all offices and functions.

Risk Management

• Contribute to the organisational risk register by recording and presenting on financial risks to the Board and Finance and Audit Committee.
• Lead on fraud prevention, detection, reporting, and investigation standards.
• Ensure compliance with anti-money-laundering legislation and act as MRLO for the organization.
• Implement financial due diligence for donors, suppliers, and country operations as required to meet organisation and donor policies.

Oversight of International Operations

• Ensure strong financial management of new country programmes creating and reviewing and renewing policies as required.
• Support secondees in new countries ensuring they are paid and can make payments as required.
• Support the development or review of financial systems, capacity, and reporting in relation to new country expansion work.
• Oversee financial arrangements for countries where the INGO has no legal entity, including fiscal hosts, secondee payments, and contract structures.
• Ensure multi-currency management, FX exposure monitoring, and cashflow forecasting.

Leadership, Management & Culture

• Lead, mentor, and develop the finance team to achieve operational excellence.
• Promote a culture of integrity, accountability, and financial literacy across the organisation.
• Provide training and guidance to programme and non-finance staff.
• Uphold the organisation’s values, safeguarding principles, and anti-corruption commitments.

Person Specification

Essential

• Worked as a Finance Director or as a Head of Finance (with autonomy of decision making and board reporting duties)
• Strong understanding of charity accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
• Senior-level finance experience in an INGO, charity, or multi-country organisation (preferably with operations in the Global South)
• Fully qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, CPA or equivalent).
• High integrity, sound judgement, and commitment to NGO values.
• Demonstrable experience with institutional donor compliance.
• Experience leading annual audits and preparing financial statements.
• Strong leadership and team management skills, including developing staff.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis skills.
• Experience managing multi-currency environments and international financial operations.
• Ability to communicate financial information clearly to non-finance staff, senior leaders, and Boards.

Desirable

• Experience working with local partners and capacity-strengthening in the Global South.
• Knowledge of risk management frameworks and counter-fraud systems.
• Experience with digital transformation of financial systems.
• Familiarity with grant management systems and cloud-based accounting tools.
• Understanding of tax, registration, or legal issues related to INGOs working without in-country entities.
• Lived and worked in Sub Saharan Africa

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