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Finance Business Partner

Job description

Harris Hill is recruiting for a Finance Business Partner for this international development charity based in London.

  • Report to: Director of Finance
  • Flexible working: Hybrid
  • Salary: 42,500
  • Experience: International development, Humanitarian or any kind of charity/ donor/ grant experience will be beneficial.

Key accountabilities
Management Accounting

  • Support and review all rolling forecasts submitted by the projects and country offices
  • Ensure monthly management accounts are produced and reviewed and that variances are acted on
  • Analyse the monthly management accounts and ask countries and projects to account for the performance in those countries against the forecast, collating and providing the monthly feedback to the Finance Director

Financial Accounting

  • Providing advice, training and support to the finance team in country offices
  • Review all donor reports to ensure accurate and provide to the Finance Director for sign off and ensure that they are submitted on time
  • Review the month-end checklists from the country offices and bring to the attention of the Finance Director any items of concern
  • Ensure all Country Finance Managers, follow-up on matters raised in the month-end checklists and they are cleared within one month of the issue first arising

Technical Finance Support

  • Provide technical training to Country Finance Managers (and senior finance staff if appropriate) in enabling the role holder to learn and develop, and enabling them to be a strong support to the country teams
  • Provide day to day support on understanding the requirements of reporting both internal and external reporting

Budget Support and Financial Analysis

  • Support the HQ-based Business Development team and/or in country teams by compiling and reviewing budgets for new projects where required and providing the budgets for review by the Finance Director
  • Support the Finance Director with financial analysis required