Job Description

Overview
The Finance Department at Oxford Policy Management is currently seeking a Group Financial Accountant on a permanent basis.
Based in our Oxford office, with flexible hybrid or remote working options within the UK. Occasional office visits required by agreement.
We are an international development consultancy working to improve lives through sustainable policy change in low- and middle-income countries. Our vision is for fair public policy that benefits both people and the planet.
Through our global network of offices, we work in partnership with national stakeholders and decision makers to research, design, implement and evaluate impactful public policy. We draw on our local and international sector experts to provide the very best evidence-based support. We deliver projects with expert knowledge and experience, and can be relied upon for excellence in all aspects of project delivery. We work collaboratively, with ambition, to help deliver impactful public policy that will bring about lasting change.
Position Summary
The Finance Department at OPM is responsible for the management of the company's Commercial Finance, Financial Accounting and Project Finance activities.
The Group Financial Accountant is primarily responsible for managing consolidation and UK entity accounting, supporting and reviewing accounting within global offices and ensuring that OPM's ledgers accurately reflect the company's financial activity, in line with the appropriate accounting standards. Strengthening implementation of standard reporting and control frameworks across our global offices, the role significantly contributes towards robust and streamlined group accounting for the business.
As a Group Financial Accountant at OPM you will:

• Ensure that all ledgers and accounting activities are completed accurately, to the relevant standards and in a timely manner.
• Review the ledgers of global offices and ensure that these are promptly updated and accurate.
• Ensure all balance sheets are reconciled.
• Ensure robust cashflow management and forecasting.
• Maintain UK banking, including exchange exposures.
• Manage tax issues and queries as well as UK VAT returns.
• Manage Intercompany process and issues.
• Lead group audit process and support local office audits.
• Provide day to day line management of the A/P and A/R team.

Key Qualifications / Experience / Skills / Behaviours

• Fully qualified (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with significant post qualification experience.
• Proven corporate accounting experience.
• Experience of managing the consolidation process.
• Experience in an international environment operating with multiple currencies.
• Experience of people management and developing high-performing teams.
• Proven experience and skill in building productive relationships internally, particularly across geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience of supporting global offices with the ability to understand their needs and to guide and advise accordingly.
• Excellent numeracy and IT skills (especially Excel) and very good attention to detail.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to use own initiative productively.
• Ability to handle a complex workload, whilst maintaining a high degree of accuracy.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience of MS Dynamics is advantageous.

Our Offer

• We enable colleagues' capacity to grow professionally through enhanced learning resources, opportunities to work cross functionally, and space to engage with a range of internal and external industry events.
• Our non-hierarchical culture values support, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and a rich diversity of perspectives.
• We provide an exceptionally generous annual leave entitlement and a hybrid working model to encourage and enable healthy work/life balance.
• Wellbeing resources including a global Employee Assistance Programme and access to the UnMind app.
• Competitive salary and contributory pension scheme.

We are strengthened by the diversity of colleagues across our global business and are committed to being an equal opportunities employer, promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace for all.
Our recruitment practices reflect our ambition to make the international development sector more inclusive and firm belief that our work delivers the best outcomes when we actively include a diversity of perspectives and experiences.
Application
If you share our vision for fair public policy that benefits both people and planet, we would love to hear from you.
We review and interview applicants on a rolling basis and encourage you to apply by way of CV via our careers site at the earliest. We may close this advertisement before the published closing date, should a suitable candidate be identified.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role and candidates must have a pre-existing right to work in the UK for their application to be considered.
Oxford Policy Management is committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion at every level of the business. Should you require adjustments to make the application process more accessible please inform us through completing or scan the QR code below.

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