Global Head of Finance — Charity & Impact

Environmental Justice Foundation Limited; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days’ annual leave (exclusive of银行假

Generous pension scheme

Flexible working hours

Hybrid working (3 days in office / 2)

Professional development opportunities

Impactful work

Job summary

The Environmental Justice Foundation Limited is seeking an experienced, precise and conscientious qualified accountant to lead its international finance team and provide financial insight to the CEO and Senior Management Team to support fast-growing, ambitious charitable work.

You will oversee global financial administration across countries, ensuring value for money and accuracy, while mentoring staff and coordinating budgeting, treasury and regulatory requirements to deliver impact for people

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with attention to detail and integrity.
• Minimum of six years' work experience, preferably in the international charity sector, including responsibility for managing a finance team.
• Experience designing and implementing financial controls and securing good value for money through procurement.
• Strong IT skills, and experience managing IT systems/databases.
• Excellent communication skills, in writing and in person.
• Proactive and solution-oriented, highly organised and self-motivated.
• Experience of working with the UK Charity SORP and the production of the annual report and accounts.
• Experience with multi-currency income & expenditure and management of the processes around sub-grants to overseas partners.
• Ability to travel to EJF's countries of operation to assess the development and implementation of financial systems and to manage finance staff.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and improving EJF's global financial policies, systems, controls and processes, ensuring they are applied consistently in every country where EJF operates.
• Managing six finance staff working in the UK and overseas.
• Ensuring the production of accurate, accessible and insightful monthly and annual global financial reporting for internal and external audiences.
• Providing strategic financial forecasts, insights and advice to the CEO, Senior Management Team and Trustees to inform planning and decision-making.
• Preparing budgets for funding proposals and ensuring accurate and timely financial projections of spend against grants and reporting to funders.
• Leading the annual organisational budget process, including multi-year financial plans.
• Mentoring team leads on financial budgeting, tracking and expenditure oversight.
• Monitoring and ensuring value for money in expenditure, identifying and removing inefficiencies and waste.
• Developing and executing EJF's treasury strategy, including managing currency risk and reserves.
• Overseeing payroll and pensions, working with external providers where relevant.
• Completing regulatory returns as required by the Charity Commission and statutory bodies in the countries of operation.
• Leading the annual external audit and overseeing the preparation of statutory accounts.
• Managing financial risk, including safeguarding EJF against fraud, and maintaining relationships with auditors, banks and other professional advisers.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Detail-oriented

Six years experience

Financial controls design

IT systems management

Communication skills

Proactive and organised

Team leadership

Multi-currency accounting

Travel willingness

Tools

IT systems/databases management

Job description

The Environmental Justice Foundation Limited is seeking an experienced, precise and conscientious qualified accountant to lead its international finance team and provide financial insight to the CEO and Senior Management Team to support fast-growing, ambitious charitable work.

You will oversee global financial administration across countries, ensuring value for money and accuracy, while mentoring staff and coordinating budgeting, treasury and regulatory requirements to deliver impact for people