Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 05 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:

About ADD International
The movement for disability equality is powered by the vision and courage of disability rights activists. We support organisations of activists in Africa and Asia to fight discrimination and build powerful movements for change.
We want disabled people to have greater access to funding and more power in deciding how this money is used to build powerful movements for positive change. We are working towards becoming a participatory grant maker. Find out more about this process at add.org.uk/transformation.

Job Purpose:
This is a new role that will lead our newly centralised and geographically distributed finance team in serving the changing financial management needs of ADD International and its partners. You will be a qualified accounting professional with strong financial budgeting, reporting and management skills. You will also have a commitment to shifting and sharing power in international development and understand and be able to think through the implications of that for financial management across the organisation.
You will take over from the current interim Head of Finance in leading initiatives to simplify internal financial procedures and implement new financial accounting systems and processes that will simplify internal financial procedures and reduce workloads, while continuing to meet ADD’s donor reporting requirements.
You will have the strong leadership skills needed to shape a newly formed finance team and orient them towards being a customer-focused team supporting ADD and its partners on financial management. You will remotely line manage two Finance Managers who will work closely with a finance officer based in each of the six countries where ADD currently has a presence to support the organisation with high quality financial management information and donor reporting. You will take overall responsibility for the organisational-level budget, management reports and audits and regularly attend Trustee & Senior Leadership Team (SLT) meetings to brief them on financial matters.

Key Responsibilities:
• Design and manage the annual budget process and regular re-forecasts to ensure ADD’s financial sustainability, with a view to optimising the mix of restricted and unrestricted income, value for money in the context of the risks the organisation faces.
• Work with the Technical Team & Regional Directors to devise an effective approach to budgeting for ADD’s new model and ensure that we train all relevant staff in its use.
• Lead our new ADD Finance Team, helping our finance staff to be motivated and feel supported as they get used to our new way of working.
• Ensure that internal controls are well designed and implemented and that ADD International is compliant with all its statutory and donor requirements that relate to financial management.
• Review existing and if necessary, develop a strong financial management and procurement system and policies that align with other internal changes we are making.
• Lead on Global and Country Audit processes on an annual basis.
• Monitor & Report on external audit recommendations, liaising with our auditors in all the countries where we work as necessary to ensure audits take place in a timely and effective manner.
• Ensuring we liaise with consortium partners to report accurately on the spend in existing programmes.
• Manage the transition of our financial accounting system and ensure that an appropriate system is in place working with the Director of Resources, People and Culture.
• Be part of a team working closely with colleagues and your Director to ensure that ADD has the resources and culture needed to make the transformation we are pursuing a reality
• Line manage two Finance Managers (who will in turn work closely with & line manage our Finance Officers in each country) and the UK Finance Officer, in close liaison with the wider Resources, People and Culture and with relevant Regional Directors and Programme Team Leads.
• Help realise any necessary cost savings within our overall budget liaising with staff across ADD and with external parties as necessary.
• Deliver timely financial reports to SLT and Trustees and ensure that we are looking 1 and 3 years ahead at all times and that we continue to build out our top-line 5-year financial projection and financial modelling that will sit alongside our Business Plan.
• Develop the internal financial systems necessary to transition to a model where a significant amount of our turnover is shared on with disability rights organisations as grants and working with the Director of Resources, Systems and Culture help support the development of the processes and procedures we will need to make that a reality, ensuring that the due diligence and reporting we ask of grantees remains flexible and proportionate inline with our commitment to provide flexible funding mechanisms to the sector as part of our new approach.
• Take overall responsibility for ensuring that we have an efficient and effective finance system in place, making necessary changes to ensure it meets the needs of ADD’s internal and external users of financial information and reports.

Safeguarding responsibilities:
• Contribute to creating and maintaining an environment (including within ADD) that prevents safeguarding violations and promotes the implementation of ADD’s policy
• Ensure team are fully briefed and trained on ADD’s safeguarding policy and respond appropriately to any safeguarding concerns they might raise

Safeguarding level.
We are committed to ensure we are a safe organisation, delivering safe programmes that ensure we do no harm to people we work with. Our processes ensure all posts are graded, based on interaction with children and vulnerable adults. This post is a Level 1 post, see outline of all levels below:
• Level 1 - office based, no real direct access to children/vulnerable adults
• Level 2 - possible access to children/vulnerable adults but unlikely to be alone
• Level 3 - regular access to children/vulnerable adults including on their own, or lead responsibility for safeguarding within office/location

Person Specification:
• Strong customer service focus and commitment to continuous improvement
• Finance/Accounting qualification and significant senior level financial accounting and management experience
• Experience of charity/non-profit law and governance requirements
• Experience of managing and leading a geographically diverse/global team
• An excellent understanding of the requirements of donor reporting
• Experience of working with senior management and a good understanding of the financial reporting and analysis needs of SLT and Trustees
• Ability to ensure strong financial oversight of programme work that is diverse in both content and location
• Experience of designing and supporting implementation of internal controls and financial procedures for staff with limited financial expertise working in low resource settings
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work with colleagues across cultural difference
• A commitment to shifting and sharing power in international development and a willingness to work out how this should impact our approach to financial management and reporting
• A commitment to safeguarding children and/or vulnerable adults
• Commitment to, and understanding of, the Social Model of Disability and a rights based approach to development.

Job Experience:No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested applicants should send the following attachments by email:
• Your CV (max 3 pages)
• Your answers to the below 3 questions (maximum 1,000 words)
• Completed equal opportunities form
• The names, contact numbers and addresses of 2 referees (please state if you are not happy for them to be contacted at this stage)

• Please also send your answers to the following questions in no more than 1,000 words or in an audio or video recording of no more than 6 minutes. Please note these will be anonymised and reviewed before we look at the CVs of candidates (so please send as a separate document and do not include your name). Audio/video recordings will be transcribed before being shared with the recruiting panel to maintain anonymity.
• How do you see this role supporting the commitment to shifting and sharing power in international development?
• How do you think your skills and experience are relevant to this role?
• How have you supported change processes within organisations you have worked for previously?

Please send your application to: recruitment@add.org.uk  by the closing date specified below.
If you need an accessible format, please contact recruitment@add.org.uk  and specify which format you require.
• Application deadline: 17 May 2023
• Interviews will be held online 25 May

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