Job Details:
Organisation: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Deadline Sun, 18 Jan 2015
Job type: Permanent
Location:
United Kingdom
Description
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
At the Thomson Reuters Foundation we stand for free, independent journalism, human rights, women’s empowerment and the rule of law. We expose corruption worldwide and play a leading role in the global fight against human trafficking. We use the skills, values, and expertise of Thomson Reuters to run programmes that trigger real change and empower people around the world. We tackle global issues. We achieve lasting impact.
With over 70 staff members around the world and offices in 10 locations across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, the Foundation has quickly become a point of reference in the corporate philanthropic world.
Some of our high profile initiatives include:
- Media Development - for the past 30 years we have been training journalists and media professionals, improving the standards of journalism around the world. We also build platforms for independent journalism like Aswat Masriya, an independent and unbiased political news website launched in Egypt in 2011.
- Under-reported stories - our growing team of journalists covers the stories other media won’t cover with an emphasis on humanitarian relief, corruption, women’s rights and climate change.
–Free legal assistance- TrustLaw is the world’s leading service providing free legal assistance to NGOs and social enterprise. The network boasts 1,600 members, including 1,700 NGOs and social enterprises, 380 law firms and corporate legal teams, and more than 100,000 lawyers.
- Trust Women - an influential international conference to take action by putting the rule of law behind women’s rights. Every year Trust Women forges new strategic commitments to help women to know and defend their rights.
The Position
This entry level role will be based within the Media Development team and the successful candidate will provide a range of support to multiple media development projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Keep track of overall project spend by preparing and reconciling monthly accounts and forecasts for projects
- Assist Project Managers with financial donor reporting, including preparing financial reports, budgets and forecasts.
- Collect and analyse project metrics as required by donors and the Foundation- Record keeping and management of documentation (receipts, invoices etc) for projects
- Processing payments and invoices, including managing petty cash for projects.
- To assist with other duties as required
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to juggle tasks and meet deadlines
- Highly motivated with ability to work with multiple members of a team
- Comfortable with numbers, statistics and spreadsheets
- Some experience of finance/administration work is a plus, including experience of systems for processing payments and invoices
- Fluency in English is required
- Must be fully competent in Excel – candidates will need to demonstrate this at interview stage
- Competency in other office applications including Word and Outlook
To apply :
Please send your CV and a cover letter to trustmedia@thomsonreuters.com by 18th January 2015.
Project Finance Assistant
Job posted by: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 22 Dec 2014Job Details:
Organisation: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Deadline Sun, 18 Jan 2015
Job type: Permanent
Location: United Kingdom
Description
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization.
At the Thomson Reuters Foundation we stand for free, independent journalism, human rights, women’s empowerment and the rule of law. We expose corruption worldwide and play a leading role in the global fight against human trafficking. We use the skills, values, and expertise of Thomson Reuters to run programmes that trigger real change and empower people around the world. We tackle global issues. We achieve lasting impact.
With over 70 staff members around the world and offices in 10 locations across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, the Foundation has quickly become a point of reference in the corporate philanthropic world.
Some of our high profile initiatives include:
- Media Development - for the past 30 years we have been training journalists and media professionals, improving the standards of journalism around the world. We also build platforms for independent journalism like Aswat Masriya, an independent and unbiased political news website launched in Egypt in 2011.
- Under-reported stories - our growing team of journalists covers the stories other media won’t cover with an emphasis on humanitarian relief, corruption, women’s rights and climate change.
–Free legal assistance- TrustLaw is the world’s leading service providing free legal assistance to NGOs and social enterprise. The network boasts 1,600 members, including 1,700 NGOs and social enterprises, 380 law firms and corporate legal teams, and more than 100,000 lawyers.
- Trust Women - an influential international conference to take action by putting the rule of law behind women’s rights. Every year Trust Women forges new strategic commitments to help women to know and defend their rights.
The Position
This entry level role will be based within the Media Development team and the successful candidate will provide a range of support to multiple media development projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Keep track of overall project spend by preparing and reconciling monthly accounts and forecasts for projects
- Assist Project Managers with financial donor reporting, including preparing financial reports, budgets and forecasts.
- Collect and analyse project metrics as required by donors and the Foundation- Record keeping and management of documentation (receipts, invoices etc) for projects
- Processing payments and invoices, including managing petty cash for projects.
- To assist with other duties as required
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to juggle tasks and meet deadlines
- Highly motivated with ability to work with multiple members of a team
- Comfortable with numbers, statistics and spreadsheets
- Some experience of finance/administration work is a plus, including experience of systems for processing payments and invoices
- Fluency in English is required
- Must be fully competent in Excel – candidates will need to demonstrate this at interview stage
- Competency in other office applications including Word and Outlook
To apply :
Please send your CV and a cover letter to trustmedia@thomsonreuters.com by 18th January 2015.