Sightsavers is looking for a Finance Officer - Disability Inclusive Development (DID) to deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met.
Salary: £30,299 - £35,646 depending upon experience
Location: UK remote - with occasional travel to Haywards Heath, West Sussex when required
Contract:15-month Fixed-Term Contract from January 2025
Hours: This is a full-time role with some flexibility around hours worked and some home working
The Finance Officer - Disability Inclusive Development (DID) will deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met. Key duties will include:
- To develop, review and amend coordinating and implementing consortium partner contracts and budgets to enable project delivery with the guidance of the Head of Inclusive Futures
- Coordinate the process for timely and accurate donor financial submissions including core monthly financial expenditure reports, forecasts and ad hoc requests.
- Work with the Head of Finance to develop tools to improve financial analysis throughout the project, for instance Power-BI dashboards, using data linked from the programme financial database (MyCLAIMS)
- Support the preparation of financial reports and forecasts for the donor.
- Deliver the day-to-day finance and administration tasks on the DID project including partner transfers, cost recovery, fund management, procurement, manage the assets register.
To succeed in this role you will need:
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities
- Experience of institutional donor or large-scale contract management. In particular experience of FCDO funding would be useful.
- Excellent numerical skills
- Finance and Accounting experience
- High proficiency with Excel (pivot tables) is required and experience of a computer-based accounting system
- Strong attention to detail when needed, with a willingness to follow issues through to resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritise work in a high-pressure environment working to competing deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Experience of conducting/participating in finance workshops (desirable)
- Willingness to continuously develop skills and knowledge to remain current with donor funding developments. (desirable)
- Experience and awareness/understanding of international development context and humanitarian sector (desirable)
- Able to travel for up to 4 weeks per year
- Desire to follow up an accounting professional certification (i.e. ACCA or CIMA)
Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit. This is a varied role, please read the full job description for further details
Benefits
Sightsavers offers some fantastic benefits. Our comprehensive benefits package includes generous annual leave allowance, pension, season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and wellness discounts. If you choose to work in or are visiting our collaborative, modern office space, you will find it an easy 20-minute train journey from Brighton or 45 minutes from London.
Please complete an application via our recruitment portal. Please note that there will be an expectation that you can occasionally visit our modern and collaborative offices in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (RH16 3BW). We anticipate that remote interviews will take place during week commencing 2 December 2024 and the evaluation process will include a role-speciifc task to be completed by shortlisted candidates in advance of this. We would like the successful applicant to be in post in January 2025. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.
In line with its commitment to safe programming and recruitment, Sightsavers participates in the inter-agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS) administered by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. Through collaboration with other MDS members, Sightsavers aims to ensure that there are no sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment issues relating to potential new hires and that we can respond systematically to checks from fellow MDS members. This ensures our work is accountable, delivered to a high standard and supports safeguarding across the development and humanitarian fields.
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