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Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
CHIEF FINANCE OFFICER - SYS-1211
September 2, 2024
The Role
As CFO, you will play a pivotal role in our Strategic Management Team (SMT), providing financial leadership that aligns with our bold strategy. You will ensure that GAIN’s financial plans are robust, transparent, and meet the highest standards of probity, while also ensuring compliance with donor requirements for budgeting and reporting. You will lead GAIN’s finance team, providing the strategic direction necessary to support our ambitious goals.
This role can be based in London (UK), Nairobi (Kenya), or New Delhi (India), offering flexibility for the right candidate.
- Strategic Financial Leadership: Provide expert financial analysis, strategic guidance, and sound financial management across GAIN. Lead the finance team to support the organization’s strategic goals.
- Corporate Finance: Develop and manage GAIN’s corporate finance activities, ensuring robust financial systems and processes that are user-centric and future-proofed for a growing organization.
- Budgeting and Reporting: Oversee effective budgeting and financial planning, supporting the development and use of KPIs, and ensuring transparency and value for money.
- Risk, Compliance, and Controls: Manage relationships with external auditors and ensure compliance with all relevant accounting standards. Oversee risk management, financial controls, and regulatory compliance.
The ideal candidate will have a distinguished career in finance, ideally within the non-profit or related sectors, and a proven track record at the Finance Director or CFO level in a multi-country context. Key attributes include:
- A recognised professional finance qualification (e.g., ACA, FCA, CPA).
- Extensive experience in strategic financial planning, budgeting, and managing financial operations in a complex, global environment.
- Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to lead a geographically dispersed team.
- Deep understanding of diverse regulatory environments, particularly those relevant to Swiss Foundations.
- Expertise in donor and project funding, FOREX, and cash optimisation in a non-profit context.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders, including Board members, donors, and non-financial staff.
Benefits
Competitive Salary: A competitive salary package will be offered, commensurate with experience and qualifications.
GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance.
We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible working, additional leave allowances, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching and access to independent and confidential counselling.
For more information about GAIN, our work, and the impact we are making, please visit our website.
GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.
All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.
GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.
This advert closes on 27th September 2024. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.
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