Non-profit Organizations · 50 people
Financial Analyst, 9-months contract
What’s this role about? Manage core finance operations, including ledgers, reconciliations, supplier payments, payroll support, credit control, and audit documentation. Produce financial analysis, reports, budgets, forecasts, and models, while supporting the Credit Trading Platform, the Bonsucro Impact Fund, and office operations.
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Responsibilities
- Support credit control, supplier payments and reconciliations accurately and on time.
- Maintain accurate ledgers, journals, records and weekly bank reconciliations, including foreign-currency accounts.
- Prepare and schedule supplier payments and review expense claims in line with policy and approval controls.
- Build financial models and scenarios to support business cases, investment decisions and performance tracking.
- Provide responsive financial information to colleagues, members and external stakeholders.
- Monitor performance against budgets, forecasts and KPIs, explaining trends and material variances.
- Produce clear monthly, quarterly and annual reports for financial and non-financial audiences.
- Support accurate, timely financial statements, disclosures and management information.
- Deliver monthly variance analysis, identify key drivers and recommend practical improvements.
- Analyse costs and resource allocation, identify efficiencies and assess the financial impact of business decisions.
- Contribute to the annual budget and rolling forecasts, working with budget holders and senior colleagues.
- Prepare timely actual-versus-budget data, query assumptions where appropriate and highlight potential actions.
- Help colleagues understand financial performance across departments.
- Support accurate, well-controlled monthly payroll for UK and overseas employees.
- Provide auditors with accurate documentation, clear explanations and timely access to financial information.
- Respond to findings and help strengthen compliance, accuracy and process efficiency.
- Partner with teams on new initiatives, assessing feasibility, costs, benefits and profitability.
- Maintain Credit Trading Platform accounts and complete required due diligence.
- Support due diligence, grantee-report reviews, forecasting, cash flow and reserve tracking for the Bonsucro Impact Fund.
- Contribute to the smooth day-to-day running of office functions as needed.
Qualification
- Relevant experience in FP&A, management accounting, finance analysis or a related role.
- Experience preparing clear analysis and information for managers and senior colleagues.
- Good financial modelling and data-analysis skills, with strong Excel capability
- Experience of accounting systems, with actual working experience of Xero a bonus
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with financial and non-financial colleagues in a diverse international setting, across cultures and time zones.
- Organised, accurate and proactive, with the ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
- A degree or equivalent experience in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
- Progress towards, or interest in pursuing, a relevant professional qualification such as CIMA, ACA or ACCA would be an advantage.
Company
Bonsucro
The global platform for sustainable sugarcane.
Bonsucro is the leading global sustainability platform and standard for sugarcane, one of the world’s most important crops. Our purpose is to collectively accelerate the sustainable production and uses of sugarcane. We convene over 300 members from more than 50 countries to address critical challenges in the sugarcane sector and drive both performance and impact through our system of sustainability standards. We work across all sugarcane products and derivatives – sugar, ethanol, molasses, and bagasse in traditional and newer market sectors, from sugar and alcohol to biofuels and bioplastics.
Offices
- 1-3 Brixton Road, Unit KP.CC3.01, London, England, GB