Finance Officer

The role controls and coordinate accounting information flows between the Global Office and the Programme Offices (POs) to ensure accuracy in submitted monthly and quarterly reports to senior management and compliance with company policies and procedures. The temporary position will also be involved in Global month end processes including cost recovery calculations, various reconciliations and completion of critical schedules and reporting. The role is vital in supporting the year end process and production of statutory accounts following Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) Financial Reporting Standard (FRS102) ready for audit review.

SPECIFIC DUTIES

Financial management and reporting

• Support the monthly cost recovery process – includes checking data integrity, resolution of queries, reconciliation and posting onto Sage.
• Monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations.
• Full review of reporting on Programme Office monthly financial information, provision of support to ensure correct financial treatment for statutory reporting and as per the Financial Policies and Procedures Manual.
• Produce monthly consolidated report for all offices and entities distributed to the Chief Operations Officer , , Project Directors and Programme Office Directors .
• Produce monthly SLT report.
• Review monthly cashflow forecasts and provide meaningful feedback to the offices to ensure full understanding of short and medium cash requirements.
• Managing the reconciliation process of core inter branch/ company transactions and balances on quarterly basis and ensuring communication and processing of adjustments on a timely basis.
• Managing the review of programme office balance sheets, to ensure they are complete and correct with processing of adjustments on a timely basis.
• Responsible for the management of core funding to Programme Office and ensuring all accruals and reconciliations are completed on a quarterly basis.

Statutory reporting and audit

• Assist with the preparation of statutory accounts following Charities SORP (FRS102) including but not limited to project income recognition, subcontractor and other year-end accruals, inter branch/ company and reserves reconciliations.
• Manage completion of inter branch/ company reconciliations and produce closing balance sheet schedules.
• Assist Head of Finance to ensure Programme Office financial reports have correct treatment of core and project balances and are in line with TRAFFIC’s statutory requirements.
• Support Head of Finance in analysing information and ensuring correct presentation for the purposes of statutory reporting, audit and internal KPI reporting.

REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant and proven work experience in year end statutory account preparations, intercompany reconciliations and reporting.
• Excellent organisational skills, with experience gathering, analysing and presenting accurate information.Preferably ACCA/ ACA part of fully qualified.
• Excellent IT skills, particularly Excel.
• Strong experience in operation of computerised accounting system – in particular the SAGE family /SAGE 300 products an advantage.
• Proven ability to be proactive in prioritising own workload to meet deadlines.
• Ability to multi-task and work well within a team.
• Strong fluency in written and oral English required.

Source: https://hrms.iucn.org/iresy/index.cfm?event=vac.show&vacId=10866&lang=en