Group Financial Controller

Group Financial Controller

Reading, Berkshire

Up to £43,000 pro rata hours (PT) Up to 4 days per week

Responsible for: 2 x part time finance officers

Job Purpose: The financial controller has overall responsibility for financial operations and controls, accounting, reporting (management and statutory), budgeting, forecasting, treasury management and audit.

Lattitude Overview

Our mission is to educate and develop young people worldwide by providing inclusive opportunities for them to make a positive difference to the lives of others through a distinctive, challenging, structured and supported international volunteering experience in a culture and community different from their own.

We achieve this by organising medium to long term international voluntary service placements, from 3 to 12 months, for young people aged 17 to 25.

We have well established long-lasting partnerships with a wide variety of charitable organisations around the world including schools, orphanages, care homes, hospitals and research centres to provide opportunities for young people to volunteer in the fields of education, health, community, conservation and the environment.

We provide unrivalled levels of structured service and support to our volunteers and hosts by: interviewing all applicants in their home country; briefing them (and their parents) before they depart; providing residential orientation on arrival; 24/7 emergency support during their placement and debriefing on return home.

The Lattitude group is comprised of 17 hosting and/or recruiting countries, in 7 regions coordinated by 4 offices managed by a global HQ.

The global HQ is based in the UK office along with the Europe team. North America is managed by the Canada office, Asia and Pacific by the Australia office and South Pacific by the New Zealand office.

Job responsibilities

As a part of the senior leadership team you will lead in the financial reporting to the Trustees and relevant regulatory offices.

The successful candidate will be CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified and will demonstrate;

 Experience of providing robust, timely and accurate financial information and having hands-on responsibility for financial processes and procedures

 Experience of contributing at strategic level to an organisation

 Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with senior managers and officers in other countries.

 Detailed knowledge of business planning, budgeting and forecasting

 Treasury management experience to optimise cash flow and minimise financial risk, including foreign exchange.

 The ability to manage the end to end audit process and prepare the consolidated financial statements to final draft.

 Track record of line management experience.

 Excellent excel and office IT skills with the ability to lead and develop the IT strategy for the charity.