Director, Financial Management

Responsible to: Director, Finance & Technology

The Director, Financial Management, will lead the development and delivery of robust financial management practices across the organisation. This role ensures effective systems, processes, and controls are in place to support global operations, drive compliance, and enable informed decision making. They will provide strategic oversight of secretariat wide financial transactions (unrestricted core funding), global audits, financial policies and procedures including those relating to procurement management, financial systems and compliance, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and safeguarding requirements.

Reporting to the Director of Finance & Technology, this position sits within the integrated Finance, Admin & IT function. The role plays a critical part in shaping and implementing global financial frameworks, supporting organisational evolution, and maintaining high standards of governance, transparency and accountability. This role requires close collaboration across functions and adherence to safeguarding reporting and monitoring obligations.

• Conceptualise, build and review frameworks and processes to improve overall financial KPIs.
• Build budgets and oversee their utilisation for the finance function in line with the journey developed to strengthen the finance and other functions.
• Advise and collaborate with the Director - Financial Planning and Analysis and Donor Reporting Global manager for all planning and budgeting processes and specific financial processes and policies, applicable to restricted projects, respectively.
• Influence and galvanise a strong culture of transparency and financial control across the Secretariat by setting clear expectations, developing reporting and oversight tools and adequate follow up.
• Design and oversee implementation of regular review and approval systems inline with the policies and procedures.
• Conceptualise, design and oversee implementation of a strong treasury and investment management system, optimising returns on investment.
• Ensure timely review and sign off of monthly payroll transactions, ensuring all compliances inline with internal policies and HMRC requirements (note people management matters are managed by People, Organisation and Culture division and the payroll services for most offices are outsourced).

• Conceptualise, design and oversee implementation of procurement policies and processes to ensure value for money, which includes speed, quality and timeliness of the delivery.
• Conceptualise and design vendor management solutions to efficiently and transparently manage procurement across the Secretariat.
• Oversee and direct implementation of systems/processes to ensure timely and accurate statutory compliance directly in the UK (VAT / PAYE / Gift Aid).
• Oversee compliance in line with the requirements of the UK Charities Commission, HMRC, US Internal Revenue Service and Donors.
• Oversee financial compliance across all Secretariat offices. In doing so conceptualise and direct the team to input a system to ensure oversight of financial compliance.
• Conceptualise, design and manage financial systems for efficiently and transparently manage financial transactions across the Secretariat.
• Conceptualise, design and manage a timesheet management system to ensure fair allocation of costs across different sources of funding across the Secretariat.
• Conceptualise and design accounting systems to help in lead consolidation of accounts for the Charity Group ensuring timely closure of statutory audits.

• Influence and oversee implementation of the external audit process on an annual basis to ensure timely closure of audits.
• Be the focal person for oversight and follow up on fraud and mismanagement complaints from across the finance function within the Secretariat.
• Advise Director Finance & Technology and where needed the internal audit to ensure efficient responses and follow up to the internal audit recommendations.
• Assist the Director Finance & Technology in preparation work (including preparation of documents) related to the DLT, Finance, Audit and Risk committee and Board of Trustee meetings.
• Lead the global financial responses to internal/ external audit requests.
• Attend and participate, as required by DLT, Finance, Audit and Risk Committee, Board of Trustees and the annual Donor Meeting.

• Advise senior management and staff on financial policy/process/system changes that embed new ways of working and improve financial management within the wider workforce.
• Champion change within the team and with stakeholders on adopting new financial approaches that position IPPF at the forefront of innovation.

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