Finance Business Partner NGO Job Leep

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Responsibilities

Business Partnering, Budgeting, and Reporting

• Act as a finance business partner, partnering with program managers to drive accurate, actionable insights for strategic decision-making.
• Proactively identify and resolve finance-related challenges faced by program staff, to promote effective and efficient financial management. These often include handling government and NGO payments in our program countries.
• Produce monthly program-level budget-vs-actual reports, forecasts, variance analysis and insight, helping our wider team to understand and act on financial data.
• Prepare and contribute to organisational financial reporting (management accounts, Board packs, donor reports, funding proposals), ensuring clear data visualisation, insightful analysis, and accurate financial planning and modelling.
• Support the design and delivery of finance-related training of program staff.
• Support audit requirements by coordinating timely and accurate information for external auditors.
• Manage the outsourced bookkeeper to ensure that transactions are correctly recorded through QuickBooks Online and PayHawk.

Grants and Contracts Management

• Support program managers in reviewing partner expenditure and financial reports, conducting due diligence where required.
• Review and approve partner disbursements, initiated by the outsourced bookkeeper.
• Accurately track restricted and unrestricted fund utilisation, ensuring compliance with grant budgets and organisational policies.
• Support the preparation of financial reports for funders, working closely with program teams and the Head of Finance.

Financial Strategy and Continuous Improvement

• As right-hand to the Head of Finance, work closely together on financial strategy and strategic planning.
• Contribute to a culture of collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement within the finance team and across the organisation.
• Create and monitor financial KPIs and dashboards.
• Review, build, and improve LEEP’s financial management processes and systems to drive automation, standardisation and efficiency.
• Review, build, and improve LEEP’s grant and contract processes, templates, and guidance, shaping financial aspects of our CRM.
• As a growing organisation, we’re looking for someone excited to help shape and adapt our finance function, so responsibilities may evolve.

What We’re Looking For

A successful applicant will possess or be the following:

• Fully qualified in a recognised accounting qualification (AAT, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent).
• Passion for LEEP’s mission and a strong commitment to financial stewardship and impact.
• 5+ years’ experience in finance roles, ideally in nonprofit/charity or international program contexts.
• Experience with accounting software (QuickBooks Online preferred).
• Strong knowledge of budgeting, financial monitoring, and reporting in a multi-currency, multi-program context.
• Familiarity with restricted funding and donor compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with at least one of US and UK legal/ financial compliance.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain finance concepts clearly to non-finance colleagues.
• Strong Excel/Google Sheets skills; comfortable manipulating and analysing data.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple parallel responsibilities, while maintaining attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively with outsourced providers and internal teams.
• Organised, proactive, and comfortable in a changing environment where processes are still developing.

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