Oxfam
Oxfam International Secretariat is looking for a Chief Finance Officer to:
- Lead a transformational process to provide financial support to countries and regions. This will include the harmonisation of financial systems (people, process, and technology) across the Confederation. This expands the focus of the role from its current primary focus on the secretariat.
- Monitoring, Managing and Modelling the Collective Funding Mechanism that the Confederation invests in its collective infrastructure and work.
- Ensure that the confederation has a strong collective global financial strategy, measures of success, planning, monitoring and action mechanisms and processes in place to ensure long-term financial sustainability.
- Provide monetary management of the Oxfam International Secretariat.
Please see the Job description for more information.
Who we’re looking for
The ideal candidate will have:
- Full finance professional qualification (ACCA/ACA or equivalent).
- Substantial experience of successfully managing finance functions in multi-country and global organizations.
- Experience of successfully leading major financial transformation initiatives and programs.
- Prior experience as a Finance Director or CFO including substantial Board and Board Committee experience.
- Demonstrable experience of strategic, creative leadership, management, and co-ordination in a complex organization (i.e., network, confederation or a federation with multiple teams and functions).
- Experience of sponsoring, planning and/or managing major projects
- Proven ability to work collaboratively with others in a complex organization (i.e., network, confederation or a federation with multiple teams and functions), demonstrating team building and facilitation skills
- Demonstrable experience of successfully empowering, motivating, managing, and mentoring staff from diverse back grounds (including remote/virtual management)
- Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills across a range of audiences, diplomacy, negotiations, influencing and conflict mediation skills in a culturally and linguistically diverse environment where English is the working language.