£ 53000 Per year
Financial Accountant
Permanent,Full-time
Job Description
- Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including effective performance feedback, training, appropriate task delegation and otherwise empower employees to perform their job and meet deadlines.
- Provide oversight, direction and workload balancing to the employees on the reporting team to ensure successful completion of tasks and deadlines for the unit.
- Oversee revenue recognition process and associated receivables/payments from funders.
- Oversee and/or prepare internal reports for Internews management teams, including review and investigation of discrepancies, including management reports
- Oversee support to the Audit Manager, during audits, by providing general ledger information and reconciling amounts reported on funder financial reports.
- Financial Analysis on various aspects of the business including future trends, going concern, multi-currency analysis, etc.
- Oversee and/or prepare staff budgeting and forecasting, including monitoring actuals versus budget
- Due diligence assessment for implementing partners and signoffs
- Other duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Experience of financial and management accounts systems/processes, including annual accounts, budgeting, cost allocations, audits and external reporting- Essential
- Experience of liaising with and advising non-financial managers and staff- Essential
- Experience of managing external professional and service provider relationships- Essential
- Experience of external (donor project) reporting- Essential
- Experience of working in, or dealing with, developing countries and fragile states- Desirable
- Proven ability to effectively mentor direct reports - Essential
- Understanding of charity finance regulations and systems- Essential
- Accounting qualification - Essential
- Advanced Excel skills (considered necessary for this role)- Essential
- A willingness and ability to adopt a hands-on approach to your work- Essential
- Be comfortable working in a collaborative and diverse environment- Essential
- Strong communication, liaison and interpersonal skills to work effectively with people at all levels- Essential
- Strong analytical, problem solving and creative thinking skills- Essential
- Willingness to travel- Desirable
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