Fundraising & Finance Business Partner

Job Description

Calling all Qualified Finance Business Partners, are you looking for your next exciting contract to start in the New YearI am partnered with SOS Childrens Villages, a global charity working to ensure that children everywhere have the right to grow up feeling loved, safe, and supported.They are looking for a Finance Business Partner - Fundraising, who will partner with the income generation teams responsible for an income budget of approximately £5m. You will be supporting the delivery of consistent, robust, and first-classfinancial information to advise and assist management decision making in the Fundraising directorate.This is a contract for a minimum of 3 months, on a fully remote basis, and paying a daily rate of £300Main Responsibilities

• Fostering collaborative relationships with members of the Fundraising team, working to understand the fundraising activities and drivers of income as well as cost for each area.
• Supporting the Director of Fundraising and Heads of individual fundraising departments (Individual Giving, Corporate Partnerships & Programme Funding) during the annual budgeting and regular forecasting processes, reporting, analysing, commenting on, andchallenging budget holders with a focus on tying this into the organisational strategic priorities.
• Delivery of a consolidated view with insight, robust analysis, and succinct commentary for key organisational processes such as the annual budgeting process, quarterly forecasting process and the monthly management accounts.
• Establishing regular meetings with the departmental Heads of fundraising to capture and reconcile income and expenditure.
• Producing high-quality financial analysis, commercial insight, and challenge for fundraising teams, helping them to maximise their income and deliver against their target whilst ensuring best value for money and return on investment efficiencies, in linewith the fundraising strategy.
• Contributing to the design, development, and review of complex business modelling to inform financial planning and investment decisions.
• Supporting proposal development, grant management and reporting to grant making organisations, institutional funders and corporate partners by pro-actively reviewing, discussing and questioning project budgets and financial reports submitted by SOS ChildrensVillages programme implementing country teams, to facilitate high quality, transparent, accurate and timely donor reporting.
• Developing reports on restricted funding and setting up processes to monitor income and expenditure, implement the timely transfer of secured restricted funds and the spending down of restricted reserves.
• Supporting the fundraising team in optimising SOS Childrens Villages UK cost recovery and maximising on the leverage of unrestricted funds, in line with the fundraising strategy.
• Working closely with the income processing teams to improve and strengthen reconciliations, reporting and system links between the CRM database (Salesforce) and the Finance System (Accounting Seed).
• Developing the financial acumen of budget holders through constructive dialogue, regular support, and formal training. Supporting the development of robust income/cost ratio and return on investment analyses and accompanying narratives to improve financialtransparency and accountability.
• Proactively driving forward improvements to finance processes, implementing and maintaining strong business processes between finance and fundraising.
• Working with the other members of the Finance and IT team to provide effective financial management and control, development of financial policies and improving the impact of financial reporting on organisational performance.
• Supporting the annual external audit, preparation of statutory accounts and reporting to the Charity Commission.
• Any other reasonable tasks as required by the Director of Finance and IT.

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