{NEW} Business Model Review #944

Accounting for International Development; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A UK-based charity is looking for a senior finance leader to support a crucial consultancy aimed at reviewing its business model for future sustainability. The role includes assessing income streams and improving cost recovery strategies. Successful candidates will need to have experience with international charity transitions, including financial planning and operational redesign. The position allows for a hybrid work arrangement, mainly remote with some London office meetings, targeting completion by Q1 2026.

Qualifications

• Senior finance leader with experience in complex international charities.
• Experience supporting transitions and redesigning operating models.
• Strong skills in developing commercial business models and raising investments.

Responsibilities

• Review the organisation’s current business model and identify financial sustainability gaps.
• Assess potential income streams and model future income scenarios.
• Support improvements in cost recovery and efficiency.

Skills

Financial planning

Scenario modelling

Cost reduction

Cash management

Commercial business models

Education

Qualified accountant

Job description

{NEW} Business Model Review #944

Sustainable livelihoods

c. £450

Hybrid, UK

15-20 days to be completed with Q1 2026

Our partner is working towards a new strategy launching in 2027and is seeking external support to review its business and operating model. The organisation is operating in a challenging funding environment, with volatile grant income and a concentrated, ageing donor base, and wants to ensure its future model is financially sustainable, affordable, and resilient.

The review will combine an assessment of income sustainability, cost recovery, and organisational structure. Alongside continued efforts to diversify donor income, they are exploring opportunities for growth and efficiency, including potential changes to theiroperating model and the feasibility of moving to a dual-entity structure. The consultancy will support senior leadership and trustees to make evidence-based decisions during this transition.

Indicative scope of support includes:

• Reviewing the organisation’s current business model, income profile and cost base, identifying gaps, risks and opportunities for improved financial sustainability.
• Assessing the potential of existing and emerging income streams, the investment required to grow them, and modelling future income scenarios over the medium term.
• Supporting improvements to cost recovery, including benchmarking against peer organisations, refreshing cost recovery policies, and considering adjustments to recovery rates while remaining competitive with donors.
• Reviewing the current organisational and operating structure to identify efficiencies and alternative ways of working, including consideration of a dual-entity or other revised operating models.
• Modelling the financial and operational implications of proposed changes and supporting senior leadership through facilitated discussions and decision-making.

Requirements

• A senior finance leader (preferably qualified accountant) with expereince supporting a complex international charity through a period of transition, including reviewing and redesigning operating models.
• Experience in multi-year financial planning, scenario modelling, cost reduction and cash management.
• Experience of developing commercial business models and raising investment is strongly desirable.

Working arrangements

• It is expected the consultancy will take 15-20 days
• Expected start date is January/February 2026, with the work to be completed within the first quarter of 2026
• Mainly remote in the UK with some meetings in their London office
• Right to work in the UK essential

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