United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Project Accountant

About us

Marie Stopes International (MSI) is one of the 20 largest charities in the UK, providing family planning & safe abortion services across the globe. The organisation operates as a social enterprise, and revenues are divided almost equally between donor funds and revenue from clients that receive our services.

Our donor revenue comes from a variety of governmental and private donors (including DFID, EU and USAID) and funds activities in 43 countries around the world and the Global Accounting team play a crucial role in ensuring that MSI is financially compliant with donor requirements.

About the role

We are recruiting a Project Accountant to support our London-based Global Accounting team. As a Project Accountant, you will be lead on standard budgeting, accounting and reporting for a defined region/donor in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, MSI regulations and specific grant requirements. In addition you will work with our country programmes to support on intercompany accounting and programme financial analysis, with a key focus on building capacity within our field Finance teams.

This is a high profile role, partnering with donor management teams and country programmes.

For more information, please see the job framework on our website.

About you

We see you being a qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), with experience in project accounting and financial management of country programmes or projects. You will have/be:

• experience working with financial systems and software (SUN systems preferred) (essential)


• recent proven interest in the development sector, either through work experience or volunteering (essential)


• exposure to accounting in developing countries (essential)


• experience working with Department for International Development (DFID) awards (desirable)


• an excellent communicator who is able to build strong professional relationships (essential)

We welcome applicants from commercial backgrounds.

The successful candidate will be pro-choice and have the right to work in the UK.

What we can offer you

At Marie Stopes International you will be a part of a progressive and collaborative work environment and we can guarantee that you will be surrounded by passionate, focused, intelligent, high-achieving, talented individuals.

In return for your commitment, we can offer you a supportive environment for development, as well as a competitive salary and benefits package (including discretionary bonus scheme, 25 days annual leave, up to 5% pension contribution, season ticket loan etc.).

The closing date for this role is Sunday 8th November 2015 (midnight UK time).