Full time – working 37.5 hours per week
Wage: From £34,000 FTE per yr (professional rata 4 days per week)
Line managed by: Enterprise & Operations Supervisor
Liable for line managing: n/a
Location: London, UK (hybrid – not less than 2 days per week in workplace)
About GISF
Welcome to GISF – a dynamic member organisation comprising over 150 Worldwide Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) worldwide. Our imaginative and prescient is obvious: to reinforce safety practices inside the NGO neighborhood, empowering organisations to successfully and securely serve communities in want.
Established in 2006, GISF operates from strategic hubs in London and Washington, D.C, increasing quickly to Kenya. We facilitate a spectrum of occasions geared toward fostering data change and collaboration, and nurturing networks inside the security and safety sphere of humanitarian, human rights, environmental, and associated sectors.
Furthermore, we’re devoted to producing insightful analysis and crafting best-practice technical guides. Our engagements with decision-makers, workshop supply, and operational assist for security and safety coordination additional underscore our dedication to advancing the sector.
Be a part of us in our endeavour to create a safer world for NGOs and the populations they serve.
What We Supply
- 25 days of annual go away growing yearly after 2 years, as much as a most 30 days (plus financial institution holidays)
- Workplace shutdown between Christmas and New Yr
- Employer Pension contributions
- A give attention to skilled growth, together with entry to abroad occasions, workshops, and coaching
The Job
The Finance Officer will work intently with the Enterprise & Operations Supervisor (BOM). GISF is funded by numerous donors on completely different tasks with overlapping assets. The Finance Officer will guarantee expenditure is allotted to related tasks and donor funds and can help within the preparation of GISF’s annual finances, proposal budgets, and implementing budgeting and grant forecasting programs with GISF’s management workforce and undertaking managers. The function will is obtainable on a component time foundation with the potential of growing variety of hours labored if required.
Job Description
Finance
- Invoicing – reviewing and paying invoices, invoicing members – guaranteeing compliance, authorisation necessities, flagging and investigating discrepancies and responding to associated queries
- Present monetary assist to the procurement course of, from elevating requests to assessing tenders for value-for-money and compliance.
- Validate journey bills prematurely of workers journey, and course of bills on return.
- Preserve the submitting system for monetary documentation
- Guarantee fee paperwork’ compliance with GISF inner monetary procedures and donor laws.
- Produce related monetary studies regularly.
- Fulfil every day accounting duties and help in coordinating monetary features and companies.
- Be the purpose of contact for GISF’s exterior bookkeeper and Monetary Accountant
Grants
- Present clear and related monetary steerage for the administration of ongoing tasks
- Be sure that all tasks applied by GISF adjust to donor monetary guidelines and laws in addition to GISF procedures.
- Put together and replace month-to-month studies on grant expenditures in comparison with Funds (BvA), together with staffing and operational price projections
- Work with programme managers to make sure programme projections are up to date, and organise month-to-month conferences to evaluate BvA and projections, to make sure programme implementation is aligned with anticipated finances consumption.
- Present monetary inputs to formal grant reporting.
- Put together budgets to assist GISF proposals for brand spanking new funding.
Company
- Help within the preparation of GISF’s annual finances, together with briefing the Treasurer and Board as required.
- Develop quarterly finances studies and forecasts for submission to the Board of Administrators.
- Contribute to the replace and growth of GISF’s monetary insurance policies and procedures with the Enterprise and Operations Supervisor
- Coordination with the Finance departments of GISF’s companion organisations.
- Help with all audit and compliance processes
- Along with the above, the Finance Officer could also be requested to hold out different duties requested by the senior management workforce
Individual Specification
Important Expertise/Expertise
- Related qualification in accounting – AAT or equal
- Information and expertise utilizing Xero or related platform
- Information and expertise of utilizing an expense processing platform
- Superior data of Excel (e.g. potential to create and manipulate pivot tables and use features reminiscent of VLOOKUP and SUMIF) (This will probably be assessed)
- Good communication expertise and good written and spoken English
- An eye fixed for element and a scientific method to work
- Capability to deal with confidential data
- A workforce participant, who relishes utilizing their initiative and is worked up to work in a quickly rising organisation
Fascinating
- Information of CRM programs (GISF makes use of Salesforce)
- Information/expertise of DEXT
- Expertise of working with a number of revenue streams from completely different donors
- Information of donor compliance and laws (USAID, ECHO, FCDO, and so on)
All GISF workers are anticipated to undertake the next normal duties;
- Work inside the framework of GISF’s core values, selling its ethos and mission assertion.
- Work in direction of reaching GISF’s aims
- Guarantee familiarity with and cling to all GISF insurance policies and procedures and preserve knowledgeable of GISF actions
- Undertake and apply studying from acceptable coaching and growth programmes.
- Journey abroad, typically to growing international locations and areas in battle, as and when required.
- Undertake the function in a fashion acceptable to the cultural context and inside the native authorized framework.
- Perceive and uphold the requirements outlined in GISF’s Safeguarding Framework
Easy methods to apply
Utility is by submission of an software kind, CV and canopy letter. This ought to be despatched to the Enterprise and Operations Supervisor, Justina Amenu (justina@gisf.ngo).
The quilt letter ought to be not more than two pages, and clarify why you have an interest on this put up with GISF and the way your expertise and expertise make you an excellent match.
Additionally full this Application Form. Your software won’t be thought-about with out this
Cut-off date: 25 April 2024 (Interviews will probably be scheduled as functions are acquired)
For additional particulars: See www.gisf.ngo/about or contact justina@gisf.ngo
As a result of excessive quantity of functions that we obtain, we aren’t ready to reply to each software. When you’ve got not heard again from us inside 3 weeks after the deadline, it signifies that your software has not been profitable.
As this put up is UK-based, you will have to point out proof of your eligibility to work within the UK. Additional data will probably be supplied when a suggestion of employment is made.
For additional particulars: see www.gisf.ngo or contact justina@gisf.ngo