Head of Finance

Morgan Law; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days' annual leave

Private healthcare

Generous pension scheme

Hybrid working (3 days in office / 2)

Cycle-to-work scheme

Professional development opportunities

Impactful environmental/ human rights,

Job summary

Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is seeking a Head of Finance to lead the international finance team from Bath, with a minimum requirement of six years’ experience in finance leadership within a charity setting. You will report to the COO and drive robust financial governance across multiple countries.

You will manage global reporting, budgeting, forecasting and treasury strategies while ensuring value for money and compliance with statutory requirements.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience leading an international finance team in a charity/NGO setting is preferred.
• Strong IT skills and experience managing IT systems/databases.
• Excellent written and spoken communication; proactive and highly organized.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve global financial policies, controls and processes across all countries.
• Manage six finance staff in UK and overseas.
• Produce accurate monthly and annual global financial reporting for stakeholders.
• Provide strategic financial forecasts, insights and advice to CEO and Trustees.
• Lead the annual budget process and multi-year financial planning.
• Support procurement and ensure value for money in expenditure.
• Oversee payroll, pensions, and external providers; manage treasury and currency risk.
• Coordinate external audit and statutory accounts; manage relationships with auditors and banks.

Skills

Qualified accountant

Eye for detail

Strategic IT skills

Communication skills

Organised / self-motivated

Travel willingness

Education

Chartered Accountant (CA/ACCA/ACA)

Tools

IT systems management

Job description

Head of Finance

56,000- 65,000
Bath basedwith a minimum of 3 days per week in the office

About EJF

The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) is a global non-profit organisation working to protect the natural world and our fundamental human right to a secure environment. We work at the frontlines of environmental injustice, alongside communities most affected by climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and exploitation - transforming evidence into action, and injustice into lasting change.
Through field investigations, rigorous research, and strategic international advocacy, we expose environmental crime, challenge impunity, and catalyse systemic reform. Our work delivers real-world impact, shaping policy, strengthening governance, protecting vital ecosystems, and defending those who risk their lives to safeguard them.
Our campaigns span four interconnected areas: oceans, climate, forests and wetlands, and the training, protection, and empowerment of environmental defenders and investigative journalists. From illegal fishing and plastic pollution to deforestation, land grabs, and climate breakdown, we confront some of the most complex and urgent crises of our time - always with a focus on accountability, equity, and durable solutions.

About the role:

This is a rare opportunity for an experienced and conscientious qualified accountant to join a dynamic, high-impact team working to protect the global environment and defend human rights. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you'll lead the international finance team and provide financial insight and analysis to the CEO and Senior Management Team to support a fast-growing, ambitious charity.
This role is right for you if you're an energetic, meticulously organised finance professional with a strong commitment to protecting the environment and the people who depend on it. You'll work globally to ensure EJF's financial administration runs efficiently in every country where we operate, securing value for money so that resources are focused on delivering impact.

Key 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.

Essential skills and experience

• Demonstrable commitment to EJF's vision, mission and values and a determination to change the world for the better.
• Qualified accountant with a superb eye for detail.
• Minimum of six years' work experience, preferably in the international charity sector, including responsibility for managing a finance team.
• Demonstrable experience designing and implementing financial controls and securing good value for money through procurement and commissioning.
• Strong IT skills, and experience managing IT systems and/or databases.
• Excellent communication skills, in writing and in person.
• Proactive and solution-oriented, highly organised and self-motivated.
• Enthusiastic, outgoing and friendly, able to work in a growing, diverse, international team with minimal supervision.
• 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.

What we offer

• 22 days' annual leave (exclusive of bank holidays), increasing with each year of service, plus additional paid leave between Christmas and New Year.
• Private healthcare package.
• Generous pension scheme, with employer contributions increasing over time.
• Flexible working hours and hybrid working (typically 3 days in the office / 2 from home).
• Cycle-to-work scheme.
• A dynamic, supportive, and inclusive working environment, with genuine opportunities for professional development and career progression.
• The chance to contribute to an organisation delivering real-world impact for people and planet.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds.