Grants Accountant

The Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Grants Accountant with in our Business Resources and Solutions department. The role is required temporarily to support the Grants Finance Remediation project until end of June 2018. The role will support the Grants Finance Manager with collating information, determining accuracy, and processing corrections as agreed with Grant Finance Manager. In this role your focus will be to provide ‘clean’ financial grant data for year end and to enable regular monitoring.

You will provide second line support to Grants Finance Officers as they support the Regional Offices (ROs), Country Offices (Cos) and National Offices (NOs) efforts to financially close grants and liquidate partner advances. Provide guidance and training in financial systems, as well as develop and evolve existing reports and tools to support the process.

The Individual

Qualified accountant or part qualified accountant with strong financial systems expertise. You will need extensive demonstrated experience of the financial aspects of grant management from institutional donors in an INGO.

Expert command of Excel and multi-currency accounting packages is necessary, as well as demonstrable knowledge of how financial accounting and grant accounting interact.

Strong written and spoken English (French or Spanish is an added advantage)

Please follow this link for a full job description or person specification; https://www.dropbox.com/s/0q1f64uzb83jy6m/Grants%20Accountant%20JD.DOCX?dl=0

Location: International Headquarters, Woking (approximately 23 minutes from London Waterloo)

Type of Role: Full time Fixed term contract ending 30 June 2018

Reports to: Grants Finance Manager

Salary: £40,000 - £45,000

Closing Date: Thursday 4 January 2018

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Please note that only applications and CVs written in English will be accepted.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Child Protection Policy.

As an international child centred community development organisation, Plan International is fully committed to promoting the realisation of children's rights including their right to protection from violence and abuse. That means we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. We must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

Plan International operates an equal opportunities policy and actively encourages diversity, welcoming applications from all areas of the international community.

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