Head of Accounting & Financial Control

TN United Kingdom; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Head of Accounting & Financial Control to transform its financial approach globally. This pivotal role involves leading a diverse team, ensuring compliance, and enhancing financial processes across various country offices. The ideal candidate will be a qualified accounting professional with extensive experience in the non-profit sector, adept at navigating complex financial landscapes. Join this forward-thinking organization and contribute to meaningful change while working in a flexible environment that values diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• Qualified accounting professional with strong grasp of US GAAP and IFRS.
• Extensive financial expertise in INGO, humanitarian, or non-profit sectors.
• Hands-on experience with SAP or similar financial suites.

Responsibilities

• Transforming financial accounting and compliance at country level.
• Leading a globally dispersed, multi-cultural team.
• Engaging with finance managers and non-finance colleagues.

Skills

US GAAP

IFRS

Financial Accounting Controls

Analytical Skills

Process Efficiency

Leadership

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Language Skills (Spanish or French)

Education

Qualified Accounting Professional (ACA, CPA, ACCA)

Tools

SAP

Job description

Head of Accounting & Financial Control, Woking

Client:

Location:

Woking, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

0310c078ae3e

Job Views:

8

Posted:

24.04.2025

Expiry Date:

08.06.2025

Job Description:

Head of Accounting & Financial Control

Date: 3 Sep 2024

Location: Globally flexible, Flexible

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

This role is responsible for transforming Plan International’s approach to country-level financial accounting, control, and compliance, embedding a customer-focused approach. The aim is to balance serving Country Offices to help them mature and deliver their objectives while ensuring PII meets its statutory and regulatory compliance requirements.

This is a business-critical role with a global remit. Leads a globally dispersed, multi-cultural team of approximately 6-8. Influences engage and communicate with Regional Finance Directors, Senior managers within Global Hub Finance, finance managers and practitioners and non-finance colleagues in regional, country offices, and national organisations. The role will be based within Global Hub (GH); it will require continuous engagement across Plan’s global network, though travel will be very limited.

About You

You are a qualified accounting professional (ACA, CPA, ACCA, or equivalent) with a strong grasp of US GAAP and IFRS, coupled with experience in financial accounting controls. You bring extensive financial expertise, particularly within the INGO, humanitarian, development, or non-profit sectors, and have hands-on experience with SAP or similar financial suites.

Your analytical skills are sharp, and you focus on process efficiency. You’re proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint. You have a deep understanding of organizational priorities, values, and finance business processes, with a proven ability to lead teams, motivate colleagues, and drive improvements in financial compliance.

You thrive under pressure, can manage ambiguity, and work effectively within diverse teams. Your leadership is inclusive and empowering, and you excel at imparting knowledge. Additional language skills in Spanish or French are a plus.

Please note that only applications submitted in English will be accepted

Please follow this link for the full role profile;

Location:The location of this role can be flexible where Plan International has an office* that can employ on behalf of the Global Hub and you have the pre-existing right to work and live. You may be office, home or hybrid based.

Type of Role: Permanent or maximum fixed term contract as per employing office’s standard terms and conditions.

Reports to: Director of Global Programmes and Operations Finance

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

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Created on 24/04/2025 by TN United Kingdom