Financial Business Partner (GSO and GIS)

About Us

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centered care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

This role reports to the Global Financial Controller and has primary responsibility for the financial & management reporting of MSI’s Global Support Office. The post holder will work with the executive team to agree a balanced budget and then work with cost centre managers to deliver their budgets.

This role will also business partner with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Global Information Systems (GIS) project leads to ensure that project business cases are scrutinised, budgets are well managed and aligned to donor funding.

The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with the ability to confidently communicate with and influence senior stakeholders and an interest in building their analytical skills in an international setting. They will have strong excel stills and be well-versed in explaining financial concepts to non-finance people and analysis into understandable language and a narrative that speaks to operational staff.

About You

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and clients alike.

To succeed in this role, you must have:

Experience:

• Experience of working with non-finance professionals on financial topics
• Finance Systems experience
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and managing conflicting priorities

Skills:

• Ability to work in a diverse and inclusive environment, respecting and collaborating with all individuals equally, and with a commitment to overcome bias and prejudice
• Excellent numerical and excel skills
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence
• Strong team player – someone who can build good relationships both within the global finance function and in the wider organisation.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to juggle multiple pieces of work simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail.

Education:

• Professionally Qualified/part qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, other) – essential.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent (accounting or business degree desirable).

Personal Attributes:

For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is:

• Committed to the protection of team members and clients, with a focus on vulnerable groups
• Able to role-model inclusive and culturally sensitive attitudes and behaviours
• Self-starter
• Responsive to changing priorities and demands
• Pro choice

For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.

Location: London Support Office (hybrid working)

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (UK contracted hours)

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £39,700 – £46,500 per annum + discretionary bonus + benefits. For internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country. Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.

Closing date: 15 September 2022 (midnight GMT+1). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.