STIR - Director - Finance & Administration

The Opportunity: Director Finance and Administration (F&A)

We are hiring for a leadership position that is pivotal to our international expansion. Based in New Delhi the Director F&A will lead all Financial and Administrative Operations for the organisation across India, UK and Uganda. S/he will report to the CEO and Global Operations Director based in UK and India. S/he will line manage a global team of 4-6 Finance & Admin Managers and Officers. Travel to both the UK and Uganda will be a requirement of the role.

The Finance Director's role provides an opportunity to apply your financial knowledge, analytical expertise and leadership experience to the scale up of a high - growth, high profile NGO. It will utilise and build your expertise to standardise systems, streamline processes and communicate financial information effectively to a global audience including Senior Management, Board Members and International Donors.

If you are passionate about improving education for disadvantaged children across the developing world; highly analytical with excellent writing and oral communications; like to generate practical approaches to challenging situations; like the fast pace of growth of a social enterprise; can imbibe the start up culture and are flexible to travel within India and across UK and Uganda, this role is for you!

The Candidate and Role

Driven and flexible, the ideal candidate will have at least eight to ten years of experience independently leading the operations of a Finance department. Expertise in financial management, procurement, contract and grant management including donor reporting in the development sector/donor agencies is mandatory. Previous experience outside of India especially UK or Africa and sound knowledge of statutory regulations across these geographies is desirable alongwith experience of working as part of a global finance team. Additionally the candidate should possess the following skills and qualifications:

- Masters in Business Administration /Commerce/CA/CPA with a sound understanding of Indian legal/statutory requirements.

- Expertise to manage the Finance department of a global organisation independently with minimal oversight. These include but not limited to managing donations (in US, UK and India), salaries and expenses of employees and vendor in India, Uganda and UK, vendor payments, etc.

- Ability to lead and prepare Global/Country and Donors budgets, including for large multilaterals and Private foundations and savvy enough to respond to nuanced feedback and donor preferences

- Comfortable working closely with the programme teams/budget holders to ensure their understanding and adherence to the budget.

- Expertise in reporting to funders on funds spent and judiciously tracking expenses monthly and flagging any concerns.

- Leading and developing periodic project financial reports for submission to CEO/Management and donors

- Comfortable with carrying out cash flow and cost effectiveness analysis.

- Expertise in preparing annual financial statements both for statutory reporting in all countries of operations. Managing external and internal audits

- Comfortable liasioning with lawyers, tax consultants, FCRA (Foreign contribution Regulations Act) advisors to ensure compliance with FCRA, Taxation and other charity related laws.

- Advanced MS Excel skills such as usage of pivot tables or data table analysis and proficiency in using an integrated accounting package such as tally.

- Line managing and developing a team of 3-5 Finance cum admin Mangers/Officers across geographies

- Procurement and contracting: -Institutionalise internal control mechanisms for competitive, unbiased and transparent procurement processes - Supervise and draft vendor and employee Contracts, Agreements/MoUs and Purchase Orders across geographies/office locations

- Liaison with service providers and vendors such as office landlords, facilities management companies, office supply vendors, etc