{Filled} International Finance Manager

Key Responsibilities

Grant Finance Oversight

• - Lead all financial processes for international grants: budgeting, transfers, reconciliations, reporting.
• - Manage multi-currency payments into high-risk regions; ensure compliance, mitigate fraud/diversion risk.
• - Strengthen internal controls and financial systems for expanding global operations.
• - Be agile to respond quickly to humanitarian needs.

Risk & Compliance

• - Ensure due diligence (KYC, AML) and enhanced vetting particularly for overseas partners and informal/unincorporated networks.
• - Comply with HMRC and UK banking rules, counter-terrorism finance regulations. Work with the Compliance, Risk & Innovation team to improve policies/procedures.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• - Act as finance lead for philanthropic clients working in relief and grassroots activism.
• - Provide advice on financial risk, best practices.
• - Foster relationships with grassroots partners; ensure transparent, accessible reporting.
• - Apply trauma-informed approaches in working with clients in conflict or activist settings.

Humanitarian & Global Finance Expertise

• - Use knowledge of international finance especially in difficult contexts (e.g. unincorporated groups, sanctions, restricted jurisdictions) to design processes that satisfy both donors and grassroots partners.
• - Monitor emerging risks globally and help shape responses.

Person Specification (What They’re Looking For)

Essential Experience & Knowledge

• Significant experience in finance, grant making or compliance in international / humanitarian / philanthropic settings.
• Experience in managing overseas financial transactions, handling multi-currency payments, managing exchange rate risks etc.
• Experience dealing with high-risk jurisdictions and partners, including unincorporated or grassroots networks.
• Familiarity with due diligence, risk frameworks, KYC/AML, UK charity and banking regulations.

Desirable

• Arabic (spoken/ written) skills preferred
• Past work in NGOs, fiscal hosts, or international grant making.
• Experience with cryptocurrencies.

Skills & Ways of Working

• Strong interpersonal / stakeholder management skills. Cultural sensitivity.
• Ability to balance rigorous compliance with flexibility / urgency.
• Capacity to work in fast-paced, evolving environment; adapt priorities quickly.
• Alignment with our values: collaboration, curiosity, courage, creativity.

Terms & Benefits

• 9-month contract (possibility of permanent contract after completion)
• Salary: £45,000 per year.
• UK-based; London office with hybrid working (if you’re local, some office days; remote if elsewhere in UK)
• Occasional UK/ European travel.
• Annual leave: 22 days + bank holidays, plus 3 extra days between Christmas & New Year.
• Pension: 3% employer contribution after 3 months.
• Additional paid time off for voluntary work / trusteeship etc.
• Wellbeing support (counselling, online resources), financial wellbeing benefits & discounts etc.