A leading health charity based in Haywards Heath, West Sussex is seeking a Finance & Risk Officer to join their team on a permanent basis.

The Finance & Risk Officer - Disability Inclusive Development will support the day to day administration of the Inclusion Works programme to ensure all financial requirements of the project are fully met. This role will involve close collaboration with the Institutional Funding team, which has overall responsibility for the funding, as well as the Planning, Performance and Reporting (PPR) team, consortium partners and implementing partners. The post holder is expected to travel up to 5 weeks a year

Duties involved:

- Support the development, review and amendment of coordinating and implementing consortium partner contracts and budgets to enable project delivery

- Coordinate the process for timely and accurate donor financial submissions including core financial expenditure reports, forecasts and ad hoc requests.

- Undertake ongoing financial monitoring of consortium partner projects budgets and sharing this analysis as required

- Support the preparation of financial reports and forecasts for the donor

- Work with the Finance & Risk Manager Inclusion Works and relevant teams to ensure income and expenditure on projects funded by institutional donors is correctly reflected in financial systems

- Support the commissioning of risk and audit reviews of consortium and implementing partners

Requirements:

- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities

- Experience of institutional donor or large scale contract management. In particular experience of DFID funding would be useful

- Able to travel for up to 5 weeks per year

- Finance and Accounting experience

- High proficiency with Excel (pivot tables) is required and experience of a computer based accounting system

Closing date 14th January

Please send your CV for consideration