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Operations and Finance Manager
peaceful change initiative

Job Description

About the Role

When PCi was established in 2012, we began our work with a staff of just three and an income of £166,255 (FY13). Today we have around 30 team members working from five offices on three continents, implementing peacebuilding projects that are reflecting a projected annual income of around £4.5 million in FY18. This rapid growth in charitable income is driven by the delivery of cutting edge and impactful programming on the ground in Syria, Libya and Ukraine. As our programmes continue to grow, PCi is building up its operational capacity to continue to support the delivery of high-quality charitable activities in some of the most difficult areas of the world. In 2016 we brought on-board a Chief Operating Officer to provide support to and management of PCi’s non-programmatic operations. The Financial and Operations Manager is a new role within PCi’s London hub, and represents a further commitment from PCi to expand the organisation’s financial, operational and administrational capacity.

The role manages PCi’s financial systems and processes as well as PCi’s daily operations such as outsourced IT and HR services, oversight of staff security management protocols, and coordination to ensure that PCi meets all its statutory obligations. Example responsibilities include:

  • Reviewing month-end accounts and supporting year-end preparations
  • Providing guidance to and quality control of bookkeeping by PCi field teams.
  • Supporting the roll-out and embedding of a cloud-based finance package
  • Preparing annual organisational budget and long-term forecasts
  • Leading the development and implementation of PCi’s health and safety strategy
  • Sourcing and managing relevant insurance arrangements for PCi operations
  • Managing day-to-day relationships with outsourced IT and HR services providers
  • Supporting the Chief Operating Officer in developing relevant briefings and documentation for the Board

Person Specification

The ideal candidate to has significant financial acumen and brings substantial experience in both preparing management accounts and taking responsibility for the smooth functioning of a range of operation and administrative function within an organisation, such as IT systems, HR, Legal and insurance relationships. S/he brings a “can-do” problem solving attitude into the office and sees their role as critical to supporting both PCi’s executive management team and the programme teams that are carrying out PCi’s charitable objectives in challenging conflict situations. S/he will enjoy carrying out detailed work on finance systems, budgets, insurance requirements, contract reviews and so forth. S/he will also enjoy planning and implementing more strategic projects such as developing, socializing and checking compliance with new operational and finance policies. S/he will enjoy interacting with other colleagues, including in remote and culturally diverse teams, and providing coaching and mentoring support where needed. S/he will be able and motivated to play a key role in driving the development of PCi’s operations and financial systems to the “next level”.

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.