Marie Stopes International is an international non-governmental organisation providing contraception and safe abortion services in 37 countries around the world. Marie Stopes International as an organisation lobbies in favour of access to abortion, and provides a variety of sexual and reproductive healthcare services including advice, vasectomies, and abortions in the UK and other countries where it is legal to do so. In 2015 there were an estimated 21 million women around the world using a method of contraception provided by Marie Stopes International provided. The contraception and safe abortion services that the organisation provided in 2015 averted 6.3 million unintended pregnancies, 4 million unsafe abortions and 18,100 maternal deaths. The organisation’s core services include family planning; safe abortion and post-abortion care; maternal and child health care, including safe delivery and obstetrics; diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections; and HIV/AIDS prevention.
The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: The Prevention of Unwanted Births and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to: Children by Choice Not Chance.
The Role:
Reporting to the Regional Finance Director (East Africa), the main purpose of this role is two-fold: to build the finance capacity of MSI Country Programmes including Partner Programmes to adequately support the delivery of their work; and secondly to support the timely management reporting and analysis of Country finance reports to MSI support programmes including the International Programmes Department.
You will provide support to a number of designated countries to build capacity across a range of areas including Financial Accounting & Reporting, Business Planning, Financial Management Systems, Financial Controls, Business Processes, Financial Leadership and Risk management.
About you
You should be a fully qualified (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) accountant. Educated to degree level or equivalent, with experience of multi-currency accounting and reporting, as well as building finance capacity. You’ll be competent with Excel and have familiarity with Sun Accounting or Vision Reporting Tools (or similar). You need to be someone who enjoys working with, and training, people from a many different cultures.
There is a considerable amount of travelling in this role as you will be supporting several different countries.
In return we offer the opportunity to develop your career and have a direct impact on the lives of millions or women.
For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.
In addition, you will be pro-choice on children by choice & not chance
