Director of Corporate Finance and Treasury

• Director of Corporate Finance & Treasury for International Charity
• ACA or ACCA qualified accountant

About Our Client

Leading International NGO are looking to recruit a Director of Corporate Finance & Treasury candidate on a permanent basis. This could be the ideal job for you if you are able to hit the ground running with recent experience managing large accounting teams, delivering year-end / audit, & managing accounting services.

Job Description

• Oversee the preparation of the consolidated financial accounts to ensure that these are presented accurately and on time.
• Oversee the preparation of consolidated financial accounts for the different entities within the international and worldwide organisations
• Oversee National Organisation's financial returns and permanent files.
• Support the team to manage and deliver external audit and compliance services (including US Government Audits and US Tax Filing for PII).
• Oversee delivery and management of internal audit programmes, ensuring compliant completion of all audit requirements.
• Identify improvements to the internal process to support audits, working with the Director of Finance Transformation and Continuous Improvement on larger-scale changes
• Establish and maintain an internal Financial Controls Framework that can be adopted across Global Hub, regions and countries, working with the Director of Global Programmes and Operation Finance.
• Establish and agree key control and compliance targets and KPIs (against sector benchmarks) for GH to optimise functional performance in line with the corporate objectives.
• Maintain overall responsibility for core Finance & Treasury Systems (SAP and BPC being the primary systems), and work with IT function leadership to manage these.
• Develop and share understanding of direct and indirect tax policies and requirements, working to build capability across teams.
• Provide support to manage tax disclosures in the countries in which we operate.
• Oversee management and delivery of US Tax disclosures.
• Maintain the organisations Treasury policies, processes, and reporting conventions to ensure regulatory requirements are met.
• Manage Financial Market Risk across the organisation, including leading analysis of worldwide currently risk, and delivery of exposure reduction mechanisms via natural or bank hedging.
• Develop and nurture strong, positive relationships with key stakeholders across the Finance function and with core partners, including global banks.
• Monitor accounting standard changes (such as IFRS, US GAAP) and ensure capability requirements are articulated and delivered alongside Director of Finance Transformation & Continuous improvement.
• Identify and support delivery of key capability improvement progammes for financial and non-financial core accounting methods to improve organisation's financial literacy.
• Provide key input into optimisation initiative across Finance to prepare us for the implementation of Dynamics 365 ERP
• Contribute to the design and development of new strategic initiatives, and support business change activities across the Directorate.
• Provide input and support into the ERP implementation.

The Successful Applicant

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (ICAEW or recognised equivalent).
• Large-scale accounting services/corporate finance delivery, including management of complex intercompany accounting processes and procedures.
• Expert understanding of financial accounting principles, approaches, and tools.
• Strong understanding of global reporting processes and requirements, with a specific focus on regulatory compliance reporting across major geographies (such as the USA).
• Strong technical financial instrument knowledge and analytical skills and be well-versed in internal and external audit processes.
• Strong understanding of financial risk management and ability to develop and implement mitigations.
• Strong understanding of control and compliance frameworks, methodologies, and tools, with an ability to roll them out across geographies.
• Have strong relationship and negotiation skills to be able to be the external face of the organisation to its bankers and negotiate favourable terms.
• Ability to manage multiple large-scale strategy, transformation and change projects simultaneously.
• Communication skills, tailored to the audiences with whom you will work - including external stakeholders, and global, regional, and local teams.
• Strong negotiating, facilitating, and influencing skills to support delivery of initiatives.
• Highly developed interpersonal, advocacy and communication skills to work effectively with stakeholders and bring the best out of teams.
• Possess the capabilities needed to deliver effective solutions to complex business challenges.
• Knowledge and experience of using any/all of the following would be an added value:
• SAP ERP systems
• Power BI
• Dynamics 365
• Breadth of financial experience within an INGO (ideally with both humanitarian and development focus) or non-profit sectors and audit practice.
• Experience of leading or managing a Treasury function within a large organisation.
• Experience of working at a similar level within an INGO would be an advantage but we are receptive to experience from other sectors.
• Understanding of INGO funding streams would be an advantage.
• Breadth of financial experience, ideally with an INGO or not-for-profit sector organisation. Experience of working in countries delivering development programmes would be a significant advantage.
• MBA is desirable but not mandatory.
• Additional languages advantageous

What's on Offer

35 hour working week

Hybrid job opportunity

25 days holiday rising to 28 after years' service

Generous pension

Salary sacrifice scheme

Life assurance

Ride to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

A chance to work for an amazing & worthwhile organisation

Career progression