Job Details:
Organisation: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Deadline Tue, 16 Feb 2016
Job type: Permanent
Location:
United Kingdom
Description
The Thomson Reuters Foundation acts to promote socio-economic progress and the rule of law through a number of high impact programmes that leverage the unique skills and values of the Thomson Reuters enterprise.
The Foundation stands for free, independent journalism, human rights and women’s empowerment, playing a leading role in the global fight against human trafficking.
With over 80 staff members around the world and offices in 13 locations across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, the Foundation has quickly become a point of reference in the corporate philanthropic world.
Some of the Foundation’s high profile initiatives include:
- TrustLaw - the world’s leading service providing free legal assistance to NGOs and social enterprise. The network boasts 3,000 members across 177 countries, including 500 law firms and corporate legal teams and more than 100,000 lawyers.
- Trust Women – an influential international conference to advance women’s rights and fight human trafficking; Coverage of under-reported stories – a dedicated team of journalists covering the stories at the heart of women’s rights, slavery, human trafficking, climate change and land and property rights;
- Media development and corporate training- dedicated to improving the standards of journalism around the world through philanthropic high impact training and ad-hoc communication training for corporations around the world.
The Position:
We are seeking a Financial Controller who will be responsible for all aspects of the Foundations Financial Accounting, Audits, Balance Sheet Accounting and Program Accounting. The role will support the Foundation’s Program Directors and Managers and report to the Finance Director of the Foundation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the preparation of the Thomson Reuters Foundation ( TRF) Group and TRF INC ( US Entity) statutory accounts including leading on Statutory and Grant audit/s.
- Producing monthly management accounts for projects and programs including variance analysis.
- Meet monthly with relevant Program managers / budget holders to review financial performance and provide coaching and active support regarding financial processes and concepts as required.
- Responsible for external Donor reporting on specific Projects and Programs in collaboration with Directors and Head Monitoring & Evaluation ( inc preparation of information for grant audits and assist in providing responses to questions from the external auditors).
- Supporting the establishment of new programs and other legal entities globally, working with the Finance Director and relevant colleagues in the UK, regions and countries ensuring appropriate control and compliance frameworks in place.
- Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.
- Supports the Finance Director in preparing budgets and Board Reporting.
- Other ad-hoc responsibilities as required
Qualifications
Essential Experience:
- Qualified Accountant
- Extensive experience in producing Statutory Accounts (preferably for a Charity) and leading on all aspects of audit in a complex organization ,
- Experienced in management information reporting – Essential
- Experienced in Program Accounting and Donor Reporting.
- Financial control and compliance
- Comprehensive Excel Skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills; proven ability to relate to all levels of management and both finance and non-finance staff.
- etail-oriented with excellent analytical, quantitative and investigative skills; ability to present complex data in a simplified and meaningful way.
Desired Skills:
- Highly motivated with ability to work independently or in a team environment and drive results; a self-starter and able to work with changing priorities and time pressures.
- Experience with SAP / BEX
- Bachelor Degree
Want to know more about Thomson Reuters Foundation, please follow the link: http://www.trust.org
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Financial Controller
Job posted by: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Wed, 3 Feb 2016Job Details:
Organisation: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Deadline Tue, 16 Feb 2016
Job type: Permanent
Location: United Kingdom
Description
The Thomson Reuters Foundation acts to promote socio-economic progress and the rule of law through a number of high impact programmes that leverage the unique skills and values of the Thomson Reuters enterprise.
The Foundation stands for free, independent journalism, human rights and women’s empowerment, playing a leading role in the global fight against human trafficking.
With over 80 staff members around the world and offices in 13 locations across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, the Foundation has quickly become a point of reference in the corporate philanthropic world.
Some of the Foundation’s high profile initiatives include:
The Position:
We are seeking a Financial Controller who will be responsible for all aspects of the Foundations Financial Accounting, Audits, Balance Sheet Accounting and Program Accounting. The role will support the Foundation’s Program Directors and Managers and report to the Finance Director of the Foundation.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications
Essential Experience:
Desired Skills:
Want to know more about Thomson Reuters Foundation, please follow the link: http://www.trust.org
To learn more about what we offer, please visit thomsonreuters.com/careers
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
https://toc.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=JREQ057008&iniurl.src=CWS-10140