Finance Manager

We are looking for an experienced finance professional wanting a new challenge that offers flexibility and purpose. CHASE Africa is a growing international NGO seeking a dedicated and qualified Part-Time Finance Manager to join our small, friendly team in Somerset.

This is a unique opportunity for someone with extensive financial expertise, who is seeking a part-time position where they can apply their skills to a meaningful mission.

We are a UK-based international NGO with ambitious plans for growth. We work through local partners in East Africa to improve health and wellbeing in marginalised communities, focusing on reproductive health, and a one-health approach that also incorporates environmental protection.

We are a small but dedicated team, committed to a collaborative approach to partnership. We’re currently going through an exciting period of transition and growth, with a new CEO in 2022, a new charitable structure in 2023, and registering of a new entity in Kenya in 2025. Our income is forecast to exceed £1 million in 2025. Your role will be vital in helping us achieve our future goals.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you will oversee all financial aspects of our UK and international operations. This is a critical role that ensures our financial stewardship is sound and our systems are effective.

• Leading financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Ensuring timely and accurate bookkeeping and preparing monthly management accounts.
• Preparing statutory accounts and managing the annual audit process.
• Managing donor grants, including producing budgets for applications and preparing financial reports.
• Ensuring compliance with UK charity financial regulations (Charity SORP).
• Providing financial capacity-building support to our in-country partners.

You are a qualified accountant (ACCA, CIMA, ACA) with at least five years of experience in financial management, including some in the charity or NGO sector. You have a strong working knowledge of UK charity financial regulations and are proficient with accounting software, especially SAGE
, and Microsoft Excel
.

You are a proactive self-starter with excellent analytical and communication skills, able to work both independently and as part of a small, dynamic team. Most importantly, you are committed to CHASE Africa’s mission to improve health and wellbeing in East Africa.

• An opportunity to shape a growing organisation during a critical period of transition.
• A flexible, hybrid working arrangement with the potential for occasional travel to our programme countries.
• The chance to contribute your skills to a mission-driven organisation that is making a real difference.
• Pro-rata benefits including 28 days of paid holiday (plus bank holidays), a contributory pension scheme, and enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption benefits after one year of service.
• SWIDN membership is open to any person or organisation who state they are working internationally towards the SDGs.