Lead Finance Business Partner
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 10 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £56,594 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 23 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | N1 9LG |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Sense |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 283436JCP |
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Sense International are currently recruiting for a Lead Finance Business Partner. This permanent opportunity will work on hybrid basis from our office in King's Cross, London, working 37.5 hours per week.
The Lead Finance Business Partner is responsible for the financial management, reporting, and compliance for Sense International. This includes overseeing management accounts, budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations, donor reporting, and international financial operations.
The successful candidate will directly manage UK-based finance staff and lead financial oversight for international teams, ensuring best practice and compliance. It plays a key role in income processing, international transfers, and donor reporting, while also providing strategic financial insights to senior leadership. Additionally, you will produce financial reports for the Sense International Executive and Leadership teams, Board meetings, and Committees, ensuring financial integrity and operational efficiency across all areas.
Key Responsibilities
Oversee the financial management and finance operations of Sense International.
Reporting on Sense International at a senior level, including monthly management accounts for the UK and global consolidated, any high level donor reporting and any other reports requested by the Chief Executive and Executive Team.
Draft annual statutory accounts for SI and liaise with external auditors as required.
Support SI offices with account preparation and audits, and support SI offices to follow through on recommendations arising from audits.
Support the Sense International team, Global Leads and global finance teams in preparing budgets, offering training and financial guidance.
Consolidate UK and locally developed budgets into a comprehensive consolidated budget, ensuring corporate deadlines are met.
Mentor and guide both UK-based and overseas finance teams, ensuring high performance and timely responses to Sense International and country programme needs.
Provide training and ongoing financial policy support to Budget Holders, ensuring adherence to financial policies and procedures.
Ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations (FCDO and other public grants) and provide guidance to country programme staff on financial and compliance matters.
Liaise with internal and external audit teams to ensure robust financial auditing processes for UK and overseas activities.
Ensure international transfers and payments are made efficiently.
Manage foreign currency positions, ensuring financial stability across international operations.
Key skills and experience
Relevant financial qualification such as CCAB/CIMA, with evidence of own continuing professional development.
Significant experience of Charity and International reporting at a senior level, including working with institutional donors and the management of donor reporting.
Significant experience at a senior management level in developing and implementing financial management information and managing day to day ledger accounts in a multi cost-centre organisation with diverse income streams.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to nurture and develop relationships with key stakeholders and external agencies, so that objectives are met consistently, and change is introduced successfully.
Ability to influence and partner with leadership and colleagues across the finance department.
Able to plan and organise your own workload or contribute to the planning of team workload with an appreciation of short- and long-term deadlines.
Knowledge and understanding of Data Protection issues.
For a full job description and person specification, please see the link on the left hand side of the page.
About Sense International
Sense International is the only international non-governmental organisation dedicated to supporting people with deafblindness and their families around the world. Sense International supports programmes in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Romania, Peru, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
The Sense International team provides strategic leadership to the Sense International global family and supports global programmes and fundraising in addition to day-to-day support on operations including finance and human resources. Additionally, the Director of Sense International is line manager to the Regional Director of East Africa, who overseas programmes and operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and she also line manages the Director of Sense International Romania and the Director of Sense International Peru. The Director of Sense International also sits on the boards of Sense International Kenya, Sense International Uganda, Sense International Tanzania, Sense International Romania and Sense International Peru.
To apply
Please use the link below to complete your application. Managers will use your application to shortlist candidates for interview; in relation to the Personal Specification. Therefore, it is very important you complete this section thoroughly. We would recommend that you read the job description and person specification before applying.
Please note to avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.
No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.
If you require any further assistance, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0121 415 6735 or recruitment@sense.org.uk
Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment, where appropriate, are subject to a DBS check; level dependent on the nature of the role.
The Lead Finance Business Partner is responsible for the financial management, reporting, and compliance for Sense International. This includes overseeing management accounts, budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations, donor reporting, and international financial operations.
The successful candidate will directly manage UK-based finance staff and lead financial oversight for international teams, ensuring best practice and compliance. It plays a key role in income processing, international transfers, and donor reporting, while also providing strategic financial insights to senior leadership. Additionally, you will produce financial reports for the Sense International Executive and Leadership teams, Board meetings, and Committees, ensuring financial integrity and operational efficiency across all areas.
Key Responsibilities
Oversee the financial management and finance operations of Sense International.
Reporting on Sense International at a senior level, including monthly management accounts for the UK and global consolidated, any high level donor reporting and any other reports requested by the Chief Executive and Executive Team.
Draft annual statutory accounts for SI and liaise with external auditors as required.
Support SI offices with account preparation and audits, and support SI offices to follow through on recommendations arising from audits.
Support the Sense International team, Global Leads and global finance teams in preparing budgets, offering training and financial guidance.
Consolidate UK and locally developed budgets into a comprehensive consolidated budget, ensuring corporate deadlines are met.
Mentor and guide both UK-based and overseas finance teams, ensuring high performance and timely responses to Sense International and country programme needs.
Provide training and ongoing financial policy support to Budget Holders, ensuring adherence to financial policies and procedures.
Ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations (FCDO and other public grants) and provide guidance to country programme staff on financial and compliance matters.
Liaise with internal and external audit teams to ensure robust financial auditing processes for UK and overseas activities.
Ensure international transfers and payments are made efficiently.
Manage foreign currency positions, ensuring financial stability across international operations.
Key skills and experience
Relevant financial qualification such as CCAB/CIMA, with evidence of own continuing professional development.
Significant experience of Charity and International reporting at a senior level, including working with institutional donors and the management of donor reporting.
Significant experience at a senior management level in developing and implementing financial management information and managing day to day ledger accounts in a multi cost-centre organisation with diverse income streams.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to nurture and develop relationships with key stakeholders and external agencies, so that objectives are met consistently, and change is introduced successfully.
Ability to influence and partner with leadership and colleagues across the finance department.
Able to plan and organise your own workload or contribute to the planning of team workload with an appreciation of short- and long-term deadlines.
Knowledge and understanding of Data Protection issues.
For a full job description and person specification, please see the link on the left hand side of the page.
About Sense International
Sense International is the only international non-governmental organisation dedicated to supporting people with deafblindness and their families around the world. Sense International supports programmes in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Romania, Peru, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
The Sense International team provides strategic leadership to the Sense International global family and supports global programmes and fundraising in addition to day-to-day support on operations including finance and human resources. Additionally, the Director of Sense International is line manager to the Regional Director of East Africa, who overseas programmes and operations in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and she also line manages the Director of Sense International Romania and the Director of Sense International Peru. The Director of Sense International also sits on the boards of Sense International Kenya, Sense International Uganda, Sense International Tanzania, Sense International Romania and Sense International Peru.
To apply
Please use the link below to complete your application. Managers will use your application to shortlist candidates for interview; in relation to the Personal Specification. Therefore, it is very important you complete this section thoroughly. We would recommend that you read the job description and person specification before applying.
Please note to avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.
No agency submissions please: any submissions without prior authorisation from the Sense Recruitment Team will be treated as our own and as such no fee will be payable.
If you require any further assistance, please contact the Recruitment Team on 0121 415 6735 or recruitment@sense.org.uk
Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment, where appropriate, are subject to a DBS check; level dependent on the nature of the role.
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