Trainee Accountant #716

Trainee Accountant #716

c. £26,000

East of England, UK

Permanent

Our partner, an international Christian development NGO, provides life-changing healthcare, training and job opportunities to marginalised and excluded communities across Africa and Asia.

This is an exciting opportunity for a graduate or part-qualified accountant, with a passion for social justice, to begin forging a successful career in the international development sector. You will be joining a skilled and diverse team, with a culture of growing and learning together, in addition to award winning levels of staff engagement.

To ensure you succeed you'll be provided with the training and support you need, coupled with responsibility and autonomy to allow you to grow. In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, you will receive study support towards gaining your professional accountancy qualifications.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you may already have experience or have undertaken internships in an accounting role. In this role you will be delivering an effective financial management service, including purchase and sales ledger, processing of electronic donations, budgets, reporting and compliance, enabling the achievement of strategic and country level objectives. In addition, you will have the opportunity to learn about multi-currency accounting and reporting along with grant management working with donor institutions. Excellent prioritisation skills, self-motivation and an ability to coordinate across multiple tasks and projects simultaneously are essential.

There will also be opportunity to develop your cross-cultural communication skills. Working with other members of the team helping to build financial capacity overseas by providing virtual and potentially face-to-face support to partners across Asia and Africa. As such you will be willing to undertake occasional overseas travel.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.