United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Programme Finance Adviser x 2

Programme Finance Advisers x2
London
Permanent
£39,375 per annum

War Child are looking for two Programme Finance Advisers (Africa and Asia/Middle East) to play an essential role in advancing our mission to support and improve the care and protection of children and young people who live with a combination of insecurity, poverty and exclusion in some of the worse conflict-affected places. War Child’s strategic plan anticipates significant growth in the number of children we support and the funding we need to make that happen. Based in London, the Programme Finance Advisers are essential to support that growth and to help War Child operate more efficiently.

As the Programme Finance Adviser, you will use your initiative, creativity and strong business partnering skills to play a crucial role in providing technical support in accounting, compliance including War Child internal procedures and donors’ requirements, reporting and proposal development for our Africa and Middle East/Asia country teams. The roles work closely with the finance and programme teams and are key for embedding and enhancing quality during a period of exceptional growth and continuous improvement in War Child.

Your expertise also means you have the gravitas to encourage and enable change. With a recognised accounting qualification and strong technical accounting expertise, you’re likely to be working in a NGO/charity at a similar level, or be looking for the chance to take the next step up.

Key duties:

• Supporting the Programmes Directorate and overseas Country Directors and Finance Managers in the preparation and presentation of multi-currency budgets, forecasts and cash-flows.
• Co-ordinating the production of the financial elements of donor reports
• Carrying out field visits to country programmes in order to perform finance capacity assessments.
• Review restricted income and expenditure against programme implementation and follow up with Programmes Directorate and country programmes to ensure timely spend in line with donor regulations.
• Analysis and follow up of monthly financial reporting packs from country offices.
• Capacity building by supporting department teams in London and the Country Directors in country programmes in their evaluations and ongoing development of the in-country finance teams.

The successful applicants will have:

• Proven experience of financial management experience in a non-profit organisation with a good understanding of multi-currency accounting and reporting
• Experience of financial capacity building, including non-finance staff
• Proven financial analysis and forecasting ability with high attention to detail
• Experience of working with donor institutions such as DfID, UNICEF, EU and major trusts such as Comic Relief
• Familiar with a range of computerised accounts packages and a highly experienced and competent user of MS Excel and other MS Office packages
• Good organisational skills with the ability to plan ahead, to work well under pressure and manage priorities to meet deadlines in a changing and challenging environment whilst making effective decisions.
• Ability to work effectively within and across departments, and build and maintain relationships with remote teams
• Fluency in French (for Programme Finance Adviser-Africa role only)
• Right to work in the UK
• Willingness to travel to country offices (approx. 25% of the role)

Please note that both Programmes Finance Adviser positions have the same core/shared job description. Please indicate on the Application form whether you would like to be considered for the PFA – Africa role or the PFA – Asia/Middle East position. If you wish to be considered for either position, please indicate this.

Application process

• Download and complete the War Child Application Form from our website.
• Application deadline is 10am on Monday 5 September 2016 and all applications must be received by this date. Please note individual CVs will not be accepted.
• First round interviews will be held the week commencing 12 September 2016.
• Second round interviews may also take place if necessary.
• The successful applicant will be expected to undergo a DBS Police check and/or international police check, a medical check for overseas travel purposes, be compliant and sign up to War Child’s Child Safeguarding Policy prior to a final offer being made.