Director, Financial Management in London

The Director, Financial Management, will lead the development and delivery of robust financial management practices across the organisation. This role ensures effective systems, processes, and controls are in place to support global operations, drive compliance, and enable informed decision‐making. They will provide strategic oversight of secretariat wide financial transactions, global audits, financial policies and procedures including those relating to procurement management, financial systems and compliance, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives and safeguarding requirements.

Reporting to the Director of Finance & Technology, this position sits within the integrated Finance, Admin & IT function. The role plays a critical part in shaping and implementing global financial frameworks, supporting organisational evolution, and maintaining high standards of governance, transparency and accountability. This role requires close collaboration across functions and adherence to safeguarding reporting and monitoring obligations.

Deliverables

• Policies & Procedures: Conceptualise, design, and keep up to date in line with the SROP guidelines, the global financial policies, frameworks, processes, and systems that enhance service delivery aligned with IPPF's financial strategy, internal resources, and donor requirements.
• Accounting: Continually conceptualise, build and review frameworks and processes to improve overall financial Key performance indicators (KPIs). Build budgets and oversee their utilisation for the finance function. Advise and collaborate with the Director – Financial Planning and Analysis and Donor Reporting Global manager for all planning and budgeting processes.
• Procurement: Conceptualise, design and oversee implementation of procurement policies and processes to ensure value for money.
• Statutory Reporting & Compliance: Oversee and direct implementation of systems/processes to ensure timely and accurate statutory compliance directly in the UK.
• Financial Systems Oversight: Conceptualise, design and manage financial systems for efficiently managing financial transactions across the secretariat.
• Audit and Oversight: Conceptualise and design a system for generating timely and accurate year-end statutory financial statements.
• People Management: Mentor and guide the team through all engagements ensuring a strong culture of accountability, collaboration and mutual sharing.

Expertise/Skills

• Fully qualified Chartered Accountant
• Strong knowledge of UK Charities Commission, SORP and other statutory requirements
• Experience of turning around a Finance function
• Proactive problem-solver
• Great interpersonal skills and works well across different cultures
• Experience in ensuring value for money decision making processes
• Excellent analytical skills with a keen eye for detail
• High level of organisation skills, planning, time management

Your Ethos: Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context. Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti‐racist and respectful of others.

IPPF is an equal‐opportunity employer. We are a multi‐cultural, multi‐lingual, intergenerational and diverse work environment. Applications are particularly encouraged from women, people living with HIV, people living with disability and people with diverse SOGIESC.