Accountant, UK

Our Package

We offer flexible working, a competitive benefits package:

• Grade E; £38,000 gross per annum
• Global team, UK
• Fixed term (6 months), Full Time
• 8.5% employer pension contribution
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Opportunity to work for a leading organisation working with and for older people globally

Job Purpose

In collaboration with your colleagues, you will be able to shape and design specific activities that are relevant at any point in time. We want you to work creatively to deliver impact and respond to relevant opportunities.

With your colleagues, you will develop your team workplan to drive initiatives, develop ideas, as well ensure there is space for cross organisational working and short-term tasks. From this you will devise your individual workplan that will form the basis of your day to day activities and your performance reviews.

Let’s talk about you:

Key areas for impact, influence and responsibility

Essential skills, knowledge and experience

As Accountant, you will be expected to perform:

• A review of all Management Accounts reports template
• Take a lead role in rolling over the KPI for countries and portfolios
• Take a lead role in developing and improving the financial accounting and budgeting system.
• Take an investigation across the organisation and identify all the required changes on the new system upgrade …
• Support in Collate/analyse corporate-level financial information for internal and external use.
• Support the global team in managing their department budgets and recoveries.
• Work with Finance Business Partners during country localisation to ensure country office business units are separated from the HelpAge accounts system and have a robust financial system.

Person Specification

Essential

You will be someone with:

• Full qualification with a recognised financial body (e.g. ACCA, CIMA)
• Good Analytical and reporting skills (verbal and in writing).
• Good knowledge of major financial systems for mid-size organisation preferably SUN financial system and Vision Reporting software.
• Understanding of donor requirements and the management of restricted funds.
• Demonstrated experience in the preparation, production, and interpretation of monthly accounts and interpreting management accounts (budgeting, forecasting)
• Demonstrated experience in preparing corporate level statutory accounts in accordance to SORP requirements.

The Organisation

HelpAge International is entering into an exciting phase of its evolution as we fundamentally transform what we do, how we do it and how we are organised. Driven by our commitment to the localization agenda, we are evolving the way we partner and deliver value at the country and local level. In the coming 3 years, we will localize our country offices and programmes, and develop new and diverse forms of partnerships globally.

We seek to give primacy to local agents for change. To this end, we will replace all programmes delivered by HelpAge staff and resources on the ground with implementation by partners. This will apply across all our work -humanitarian and long-term development. Going forward, our value is framed around supporting, convening and thought leadership.

A key way of creating value and bringing impact is collaborating across boundaries and by bringing different perspectives, skills and talent together. We will deliver our work through agile teams and a global operating model, with regional roots, to focus on impact and maintain the relationships at the national level to help build collaborations and support others to set their own agendas.

Our Values

At HelpAge International we work hard to achieve our goals together as a team with a clear shared purpose. Our values inform how we work together:

Inclusive

We respect people, value diversity and are committed to equality.

Impact

We value and recognise the contribution of our staff and network members, as we put older people at the center of everything we do.

Partners

We work alongside network members and others to increase reach, influence and impact. We are committed to a culture of collaboration and building positive relationships.

Learning

We are passionate about learning, accountable and work together to find creative solutions.

Everyone who works at HelpAge share our values and are committed to behaviors that demonstrate and support them.

Safeguarding

Everyone has a role in creating and sustaining a safe and respectful working environment, where no one comes to any harm or is maltreated. At HelpAge we take our responsibilities very seriously and will take action against wrongdoing. We will do everything we can to ensure that we do not engage people that pose a safeguarding risk and will undertake criminal record checks as required.

Equal Opportunities

HelpAge International is committed to creating an inclusive working environment, promoting and providing equal opportunities and respecting diversity in employment. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. HelpAge encourages people with disabilities to apply and commits to make reasonable accessibility adjustments to workplace, if/as needed – this may depend on country/office location.

How to apply

To apply for a job at HelpAge, please submit the following documents:

• A cover letter, setting out how you meet the requirements of the job profile. Please use bold headings for each requirement and provide examples.
• Your current curriculum vitae (3 pages maximum)
• Three referees, including your most recent employer

To be considered, please read the job description to find out more information and then email your application to [email protected] before the closing date. If you have any queries regarding any vacancies, please [email protected]

Closing date: Monday August 8, 2022 at 24:00 (GMT+1)

Important Message: Please ensure that you remove personal information including your date of birth, age, gender and marital status from your CV. Please do not include any photographs.