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Required to perform a combination
of the following, depending on team/unit and experience:
Deliver outcomes:
Prepare and maintain long and short-term financial information
and reports including financial forecasting.
Analyse and interpret financial information to facilitate
decision-making for the senior Management Team, budget managers
and fundraising teams.
Provide assistance and training to budget managers as required.
Assist the Finance Manager in developing and maintaining
documented financial policies and procedures which are available
to Friends of the Earth staff, and to assist with monitoring
of appropriate financial controls, ensuring that any necessary
improvements are made.
Contribute to decisions on, and assist in implementation
of new computer software packages to enhance the effectiveness
and efficiency of the team's work.
Advise on short, medium and long term cash deposits suitable
for each company in order to maximise financial returns
or minimise costs.
Support Fundraising teams in developing forecasting systems
Responsible to do the tasks they agree to take from the
project team, balancing their work between work arising
from the project and other work and to prioritise effectively
and to work together with other project team members to
bring their experience to bear on the common objective in
accordance with Project Management Guidelines.
Develop others:
Support less experienced team members.
Recruit volunteers including intern or placement students,
government-sponsored trainee schemes, train, supervise and
review their work.
May have delegated authority for allocating and managing
the work of other staff or consultants.
Build relationships:
Present financial information, have a dialogue with and
train colleagues with limited experience and understanding
of financial matters, at all levels within Friends of the
Earth.
Ideas and solutions:
Uses analytical skills and knowledge to identify and develop
creative solutions through extracting and manipulating financial
data.
Develop new and improved systems and IT solutions (including
spreadsheets) in order to add value to Friends of the Earth
systems and procedures.
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Expertise:
Needs to have:
At least part qualified (ACA, ACCA, CIMA), or able to demonstrate
equivalent knowledge and experience.
Extensive experience of developing complex spreadsheets.
Experience in setting up and maintaining financial procedures
and controls within a computerised accounts environment.
Experience in budget preparation and variance analysis.
Proven ability to present information accurately and in
an appropriate and effective manner.
Focus of expertise:
Using specialist technical knowledge to support the overall
objectives and remit of the section.
Focus of development:
Building knowledge and experience of financial management,
including relevant statutory, charity, tax and VAT implications.
Experience of preparing statutory accounts and a good understanding
of VAT principles
Training other members of staff on new financial IT systems
and to understand financial information.
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