⚓ Location: Remote

💰 Salary: $1250 per month

⏰ Hours: 1.5 days a week [30 hours/week is full time at Chayn]

🗓️ Duration: One year, with a strong possibility to extend

👤 Reporting to: Director of Finance and Operations

Job Description

The Finance Manager at Chayn will ensure the organisation’s day to day finance function is managed to a high standard, financial records are thorough and up to date and financial controls are maintained.

Key stakeholders:

• Director of Operations
• CEO
• Director of Product
• Board of Trustees

Key responsibilities

On a day to day basis the Finance Manager will:

• Oversee all budget management.
• Budget reconciliation
• Cashflow Management
• Raising invoices
• Overseeing weekly payment runs
• Overseeing payroll using a global payroll management system, including those impemented via Employee of Record services.
• Managing charity banking across multiple accounts.
• Maintaining effective financial controls as directed by the Board of Trustees and [Head of] Finance and Operations, assisting them with financial forecasts, grant and partnership budget proposals and reports.
• Relationship management and support of our external bookkeepers and accountants, responsible for ensuring that they have all the information and paperwork they need to maintain accurate bookkeeping records, produce monthly management reports and create and file the annual return with the charities commission in line with the UK’s Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP), delegating tasks to Chayn’s finance administration staff as required.
• Respond to any external requests for financial information.
• Gift Aid returns and monthly accruals
• Provide coordination, note-taking and prepare updates for Board and Management on Board meetings

Longer term, the successful candidate will assist the Director, Operations to:

• Submit quarterly finance reports to the Board of Trustees.
• Implement new finance management software.
• Implement an efficient grants management system.
• Run an organised governance tracking and Board activities calendar.
• Develop and implement a strategy to streamline and strengthen the financial management across the organisation.

Skills and Knowledge

We want to work with a creative and passionate expert who has a track record within the sector.

Essential

• At least 5 years experience of finance management, with at least 2 years in a non profit organisation.
• A recognised accountancy qualification and member of professional body.
• Experience of developing and implementing HR procedures to a high standard, with a focus on DEI.
• Excellent Excel skills
• Experience of responding to changing organisational needs.
• Proactive and organised: capable of planning and managing your own workload particularly when at distance from the rest of the team.
• An assertive communicator: capable or articulating what you need to deliver your work to an excellent standard in both verbal and written form.
• An affinity with the aims and operational model of Chayn.
• Comfortable with a collaborative working style.
• Resident of the UK

Desirable

• Experience of managing income and expenditure in multiple currencies
• Familiarity with VAT Management
• Experience of working remotely or from home
• Passion for digital technology and fighting gender-based violence

It’s important that all team members have an understanding of intersectionality and systems of oppression and an affinity with Chayn’s aims and organisational values which can be found here

About Chayn

Chayn is a global nonprofit making healing accessible for all survivors of gender-based violence. By reimagining technology, we create online resources that are trauma-informed, multilingual, and feminist, supporting survivors to heal at their own pace, wherever they are.

Chayn started in 2013 to provide survivors of abuse with accurate, diverse and accessible information. Since our beginnings, over 700,000 people have accessed our award-winning work online, generating 1.2 million page views. Up to 70% of our volunteers are survivors of abuse, which means not only are our projects user-centred; they are user-led.

We are experts in trauma-informed work, and have developed trauma-informed design principles that we apply at every level of the organisation, from HR to user research and UX/UI. We are one of only a few feminist technology organisations tackling gender-based violence while creating and maintaining openly-licensed products and code.

While we’ve been going for over 10 years, Chayn was entirely volunteer-led until 2020 when we started to grow our team of paid staff. We are now a core team of 11, with up to 10 supporting contractors and a team of contributing volunteers, working together remotely from all over the world.

Our products

Research and thought leadership

📖 Orbits: A guide on how we can design interventions to tech abuse that are intersectional, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed. Co-created with thinkers, practitioners, and survivors from around the world, the guide focuses on three areas that are vital for effectively tackling tech abuse: technology, research, and policy. It explores how systems are failing survivors and how we can advance a different approach that leaves no survivor behind.

📖 Trauma-informed design: One of the many write-ups of our design principles and the accompanying white paper.

Resources and services for organisations

🌺 Bloom for Bumble and Badoo service is an industry-first partnership where we provide a customised version of our remote trauma support service Bloom for the Bumble and Badoo community.

🪔 Diya is our bespoke vicarious trauma training for organisations and their teams, geared towards humanitarian workers, frontline gender-based violence groups, customer support staff and content moderators.

Changing media narratives

Our CEO, Hera Hussain, is a media spokesperson and regularly talks to broadcast and print media about stories connected with gender-based violence and online safety. You can see some examples here: LBC, BBC News, HuffPo, BBC, Vice and Forbes.