Manager, Finance

FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY
MANAGER
Finance Division
A number of Areas Thought of
Software Deadline: 8 October 2023

The Finance Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is searching for a Finance Supervisor in Europe to offer assist to the Finance Division with accounting and accounts receivables.

The Finance Division is led by the CFO, supported by the World Controller, and is answerable for offering monetary administration, implementing monetary technique and sustaining the fiscal integrity of Human Rights Watch (HRW).

This full-time place can be based mostly in one in every of HRW’s European workplaces (Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, London, Stockholm) and can report back to the World Controller, based mostly in New York.

The profitable candidate might have the choice to work remotely. We intention to be as versatile and supportive as potential in each the recruitment for and onboarding of this place.

Tasks:

1. Oversee and keep accounting of all HRW organization-wide income and contributions receivables;

2. Reconcile the financials with the CRM system (Salesforce) and Growth Division revenue monitoring information;

3. Evaluate or put together recorded/posted transactions of all HRW European entities;

4. Oversee the well timed and correct fiscal yr closings for all HRW European-wide exterior reporting and coordinate with closings worldwide;

5. Handle native annual fiscal audits for HRW European entities as relevant;

6. Set up and keep relationships with distributors (accounting, payroll, pensions, banking and auditing) and negotiate to get the very best charges for these providers in Europe;

7. Handle procedures for granting of funds between all European charities and coordinate consistency the place potential with the worldwide procedures;

8. Work with Operations Directors and when wanted, present coaching on fundamental accounting ideas, in order that they will help in financial institution reconciliations, journal entries and evaluation;

9. Suggest accounting insurance policies and procedures for European based mostly entities to the World Controller and take the lead in its implementation and consistency with HRW worldwide;

10. Work with headquarters and Operations employees to make sure that money circulate, budgeting and forecasting in all European places is budgeted and monitored appropriately;

11. Strengthen HRW’s transaction mechanisms whereas making certain the required inside controls and compliance (e.g., IFRS, IAS native laws and taxation);

12. Ship outputs in a well timed method whereas sustaining consistency with the agreed technique and priorities of the Finance Division;

13. Produce reviews and proposals following inside audits or public-sector audits;

14. Function in compliance with organizational insurance policies and procedures; and

15. Carry out extra tasks as required.

{Qualifications}:

Training: Chartered Accountant, or equal work expertise, or a bachelor’s diploma in Accounting is required.

Expertise: A minimal of 5 (5) years of expertise with progressively complicated accountability within the accounting subject is required.

Associated Abilities and Information:

1. Confirmed monitor file of all features of accounting, together with basic ledger, journal entries, budgets, account evaluation, monetary statements, and different accounting capabilities, is required.

2. Strong understanding of statutory necessities, authorized procedures (audits, taxes, and so on.) and authorities laws in Europe is required.

3. Strong expertise in creating techniques, insurance policies, and inside controls associated to accounting and finance is required.

4. Expertise managing accounting in a corporation with a fancy construction in a number of international places is required.

5. Excessive diploma of proficiency in a computer-based accounting system and Excel is required; prior expertise with not-for-profit software program comparable to NetSuite is very fascinating.

6. Robust analytical, downside fixing and artistic expertise and the flexibility to train sound judgment are required.

7. Wonderful time-management expertise and talent to prioritize duties whereas sustaining a robust consideration to element are required.

8. Robust interpersonal expertise, with the flexibility to speak properly in any respect ranges of the group and with employees at distant places are required.

9. Robust oral and written communications expertise in English and French are required; proficiency in one other language is fascinating.

10. Prior expertise working in nonprofit/NGO monetary operations is fascinating.

Wage and Advantages:** HRW seeks distinctive candidates and provides aggressive compensation and employer-paid advantages. HRW provides a relocation help package deal and can help workers in acquiring crucial work authorization, if required; residents of all nationalities are inspired to use.

**The way to Apply:**Please apply instantly or by 8 October 2023 by visiting our on-line job portal at www.careers.hrw.org and attaching a letter of curiosity and a resume or CV. No telephone calls or e-mail inquiries, please. Solely full purposes can be reviewed and solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted.

If you’re experiencing technical difficulties together with your utility submission, or when you require any lodging in the course of the utility course of, please e-mail [email protected]. Because of the giant response, utility submissions through e-mail won’t be accepted and inquiries relating to the standing of purposes will go unanswered.

Human Rights Watch is powerful as a result of it’s numerous. We actively search a various applicant pool and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to use. Human Rights Watch doesn’t discriminate on the idea of incapacity, age, gender identification and expression, nationwide origin, race and ethnicity, spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation, or felony file. We welcome every kind of variety. Our workers embody people who find themselves mother and father and nonparents, the self-taught and college educated, and from a large span of socio-economic backgrounds and views on the world. Human Rights Watch is an equal alternative employer.

Human Rights Watch is a world human rights monitoring and advocacy group recognized for its in-depth investigations, its incisive and well timed reporting, its revolutionary and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in altering the human rights-related insurance policies and practices of influential governments and worldwide establishments.