Arabic speaking Office & Finance Manager

Ref: PL30555

Location: London

Our client, a large international charity, is seeking to recruit a Arabic speaking Office & Finance Manager for their office located in London.

Job Role

You will be responsible for 2 key areas, Finance Management and Office Management.

Finance management: Deliver quality financial management systems, including managing and reporting on finances, developing policies and preparing budgets; this includes headquarters activities and dealing with overseas partners.

• Produce, develop and present accurate financial information, including variance analysis; present monthly reports for the Director and quarterly reports for the Trustees
• Book-keeping, including bank reconciliation and petty cash
• Maintain records, including restricted and unrestricted funds
• Liaise with overseas offices to ensure preparation of budgets, oversee budgets, payment of agreed grants and reconciliation against them
• Monitoring income and expenditure against budget and commitments
• Oversee receipt of commitments and manage reporting to donors
• Manage staff salaries payments, payment of invoices and expense claims payments
• Monitor bank balance to ensure that income is received when expected; ensure that cheques and cash are deposited promptly
• Ensure that travel expenses are submitted for trips within a reasonable times; ensure that these are within travel procedures and are supported by receipts; reimburse expenses
• Liaise with our auditor to prepare statutory accounts
• Present monthly accounts reports for the Director and Trustees.

Office management: Organizing and supervising all of the administrative activities that facilitate the smooth running of our office.

The candidate

You are expected to be a real team player and leader, willing to take on more challenges and responsibilities in this very demanding role. The Office and Finance Manager will work very closely with the Director, Programme Manager and Fundraising Manager.
Your previous experience will demonstrate the above skills. You will also need to have the following experience:

• 3 years book-keeping experience.
• An excellent command of English and Arabic (written and spoken), other languages would also be an advantage.
• To be able to approach issues and problems in creative and innovative ways.
• To be an effective communicator verbally and in writing, with people at all levels.
• To be able to present financial and other information in tables, forms and spreadsheets that is accessible and visually appealing.
• To have medium to advanced proficiency in TASBOOK2, Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Access and Internet Explorer.
• To be proficient with calculations, basic budgets and basic financial management.
• To organise an office relocation and other events; excellent organisational skills.
• To have good interpersonal and team development skills.
• To have an ability to deal sensitively with confidential information

Desirable skills include an understanding of international development or public policy, and an understanding of protocol

UK work permit or visa requires – No student visas please!

Salary: up to 25K
20 days holiday, after probationary period (6 months) pension rights.

To apply for this role, please email your CV to , or call: 0845 226 4748 for more information

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