Finance Manager

September 26

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Description

• About Global Schools Forum: a community for improving education for underserved children • Growing a global learning community across Asia, Africa, and South America • Testing promising education approaches and diffusing evidence • Partnering to shape policy and scale solutions • Developing a robust finance function for a growing remote organization • Connecting financial information with strategic decision-making • Collaborating with teams to support financial understanding • Leading financial planning, management, reporting, and audit processes • Supporting project teams in budget development and fundraising efforts

Requirements

• Charity finance experience – You may be a fully qualified accountant, or you may be qualified by strong prior experience with charity accounts, data and formats. • Accounting - You will have experience with QuickBooks or similar accounting software, knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls. • The non-finance persons finance person – You'll have a keen ability to extract meaning from financial data and reports and make it accessible to GSF team members in a range of roles for a wide range of purposes. • Proactivity and solution orientation – You’ll be a self-starter, able to work independently and show initiative in identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions. • Pragmatic and practical - You are passionate about developing a finance function and producing financial information that engages and supports the GSF team to deliver their work. • Planning and organising - You’ll have strong planning and time management skills with the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and stakeholders. • Attention-to-detail - You’ll be someone who prides yourself on getting the details right, with experience of managing high-volume workloads, without compromising on quality and accuracy. • Flexibility - You’ll be comfortable working in a young, fully remote organisation. You’ll be quick to adapt to changes in priorities and tasks. • Communication - You’ll have excellent written and oral communication skills, and experience communicating effectively with a range of audiences in a range of formats. • Collaborative team player – You value others’ ideas, skills, perspectives and contributions and work actively to share ideas and support with colleagues. • Commitment to continuous improvement – you are committed to actively developing and sharing your knowledge and skills, to seeking and applying feedback and to sharing feedback with others. • Honesty and transparency – you share information and updates in a clear and transparent way, when things are going to plan and when they aren’t. • Intentionally inclusive – You are committed to understanding, respecting and collaborating with colleagues from a wide range of backgrounds and experience levels. • Tech literacy – You’ll be proficient in working with the Microsoft 365 suite and other platforms and tools that make remote work possible. You will have excellent excel skills • Passion and motivation - You’ll be passionate about education and making a difference, with a strong work ethic and willingness to get stuck in.

Benefits

• 35 fully flexible holiday days (including flexible bank holidays) • Flexible working - work from home or at a location that suits you and at the times that work best for you • Co-working space allowance • Personal learning and development budget • Access to GSF events • Access to Learning Platform iHasco • Annual team retreat • Employee pension scheme (only available to UK employees at present)