Finance & Operations Manager

3 weeks ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Centre for Global Equality Ltd Full time

The Centre for Global Equality is looking for a self-motivated, highly organised individual with excellent people skills to lead our finance and operations functions.

About CGE

The Centre for Global Equality (CGE) is a UK-based civil society organisation that evolves innovative solutions to challenges in sustainable development, particularly those relating to food, water, health, income generation, energy, climate and the environment. Through our inclusive innovation approach, CGE mobilises science and technology for the benefit of people across the world who live on less than $5 a day, without harming the environment or the interests of future generations. Bringing together collaborators from civil society, academia, government and business we enable the cocreation of innovative solutions with the people they are intended to benefit.

Through our global civil society network, we identify challenges faced by low-resource communities in developing and emerging economies. We match these challenges with the interests of academic researchers, and support proposal development along with the delivery of resulting research programmes. An example is CGE’s leadership of the Country Partnership function in the Climate Compatible Growth consortium research programme.

CGE also supports the implementation of research findings, which generally require significant R&D to ensure that the resulting innovations are context-appropriate and deliver the intended positive social and environmental impacts. Through our Inclusive Innovation Cultivator, a specialist sustainable development incubator, we support 30 environmental and social enterprise startups.

CGE has a global network of partners in low- and middle-income countries. Presently we work directly in the UK, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, Lao PDR, Vietnam, India and Indonesia. Our Cultivator ventures also work in Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda.

CGE’s UK activities are run from our Inclusive Innovation Hub in central Cambridge, where the Cultivator is housed. Our contribution to research and teaching at the University of Cambridge is enabled through the Cambridge Centre for Inclusive Innovation based in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (CEB). Other UK universities and research institutions we collaborate with include Imperial, UCL, Oxford, Loughborough, Strathclyde, NIAB and the British Antarctic Survey.

The role

This is a key role in CGE’s core team at an exciting time in our evolution as an organisation. We have grown fast over the past few years, and we seek an experienced finance and operations professional excited by the opportunity to enhance CGE’s systems and processes to ensure that we follow good practice in all spheres of our work. Reporting directly to the CEO, the Finance and Operations Manager will be at the operational and strategic heart of CGE. As a small but fast-growing organisation, daily activities will range from minor tasks to long-term strategic planning, and flexibility will be needed. 

Overall, the Finance and Operations Manager will be responsible for managing CGE’s finances and overseeing the operational and administration systems required to deliver our programme activities effectively. As we work both in-person and virtually, management of both physical and digital organisational infrastructure is required. A key part of the physical operations function will be managing our new Inclusive Innovation Hub in central Cambridge, including a hot-desking facility for members of our Cultivator ventures.

Key Responsibilities

Finances:

  • Manage CGE’s bank account and make payments
  • Maintain CGE’s accounts in Xero: all ledgers (bank/sales/purchase) to monthly trial balance
  • Prepare financial project and programme reports as required by funders
  • Prepare monthly management accounts and quarterly reports for the Board of Trustees
  • Prepare annual statutory accounts for submission to auditors
  • Assist the drafting of, and adherence to, financial policies and processes

Operations:

  • Support the CEO in leading the staff team and creating a positive, productive working environment and mutually supportive organisational culture
  • Manage CGE’s virtual office infrastructure including our digital organisational and content management systems
  • Manage CGE’s physical facilities and ensure effective day-to-day running of CGE’s office and new Inclusive Innovation Hub in central Cambridge
  • With the support of CGE’s outsourced HR service provider, oversee CGE’s HR function, including implementation of the organisation’s policies and procedures
  • With the support of CGE’s outsourced HR service provider, oversee implementation of our health and safety policies and procedures
  • Manage relationships with external suppliers and service providers
  • Support the recruitment and management of staff, interns and volunteers

Skills, knowledge and experience

Essential:

  • At least five years’ experience in a similar finance and operations role
  • An accountancy qualification such as CIMA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent
  • Experience of charity (SORP) accounting and preparation of statutory accounts
  • Excellent IT skills including use of the Microsoft suite and Xero, or similar accounting package
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

Desirable:

  • Experience managing financial processes and reporting for large government grants particularly where programme delivery takes place internationally
  • An understanding of international development results frameworks such as log frames and Theory of Change, particularly as these relate to budgets and financial reporting
  • Experience in an ‘academic-related’ role at the University of Cambridge or similar at another UK University
  • Experience running an office or equivalent physical facility
  • Experience of line management and development of staff

Person specification:

  • Be highly organised with excellent time-management skills
  • Be able to work fast and accurately under time pressure
  • Have strong interpersonal skills and a friendly, enthusiastic personality
  • Be self-motivated with the ability to work alone and as part of a team
  • Be committed to CGE’s mission and approach

Terms and Conditions:

  • This post is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Employment of the Centre for Global Equality
  • The Centre for Global Equality is an equal opportunities employer
  • The right to work in the UK on application is required

Application process

To apply for this role please email your CV and a cover letter to Dr Lara Allen (recruitment@centreforglobalequality.org) by 09.00 on Tuesday the 10th of September 2024.

Interviews will take place between the 16th and 20th of September 2024.

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