Finance Coordinator (Global Team)
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WHEN WE EDUCATE THE FUTURE, WE CHANGE THE FUTURE
Education accelerates poverty reduction, female empowerment, and improved infant mortality.
Yet, 251 million children worldwide are out of school.
This changes now.
UWS works to ensure children have access to quality, inclusive education in remote and marginalised communities by collaborating with local partners, communities and governments.
We deliver schools, we train teachers and we strengthen education systems.
Our low-cost, high impact model builds capacity, not dependency. This ensures that education systems continue to flourish beyond our involvement.
Shifting focus from delivering change in the short term, to empowering change for the long term, we go beyond educating the future, to changing it.
Our vision is Zero Education Poverty.
UWS is an international nonprofit that was established in 2008 to provide children in remote and marginalised regions access to free quality, inclusive primary education. We currently operate in rural areas of Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal, and Madagascar, working with over 320 communities and over 80,000 children to date.
Role summary
Role: Finance Coordinator (Global Team)
Remuneration: In line with UWS salary scales in Madagascar
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Reports to: Global Financial Controller (Nepal Office)
Type of contract: Full time, renewable
Location: Antananarivo or Toliara, Madagascar (min 3 days pw in office)
Benefits: 24 days annual leave plus Madagascar public holidays; 2 wellbeing days annually; Personal accident insurance with ARO; Medical coverage for you and your dependants (80%) with Allianz/Sanlam; Investment in your learning and development; Opportunity to work as part of a global team
Role summary
This is a new role within UWS’s Global Finance team, which supports finance operations across UWS’ country programmes in Madagascar, Myanmar, Cambodia and Nepal. Based in Madagascar, the role is uniquely positioned to act as a bridge between UWS’ fastest-growing country operation and the wider global finance function, bringing day-to-day country finance insight into global systems, reporting and process improvement.
The Finance Coordinator will support country teams in strengthening accounting processes, internal controls, procurement processes, financial data quality, and technology-enabled financial reporting.
The role will play a key part in simplifying financial workflows, improving the use of digital tools and dashboards, strengthening grant and donor financial management, and supporting data-driven decision-making across the organisation.
This role would suit a confident and proactive finance professional who enjoys improving how things work. We are looking for someone who can spot gaps, bring structure and efficiency to financial processes, and work collaboratively with country teams to strengthen knowledge, systems and ways of working. The role requires someone who values accuracy, accountability and continuous improvement, and who is motivated by the opportunity to use their finance skills in support of a global charity working to end education poverty.
Key tasks and responsibilities
Reporting Analysis & Financial Data
Prepare monthly financial reports, bank reconciliations, account reconciliations, dashboards, and supporting schedules for review.
Use data analytics to identify trends, exceptions, gaps, and risks in finance, procurement, advances, and budget utilisation.
Support the improvement of financial data quality, consistency, and reliability across country and global finance reporting.
Systems, Processes and Digital Tools
Review existing finance processes and identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve efficiency while maintaining strong financial controls.
Contribute to the integration and effective use of finance systems, spreadsheets, templates, dashboards, and digital tools to improve accuracy, reduce manual effort, simplify recurring finance processes, and increase reporting visibility.
Support the development of practical tools and templates that standardise finance workflows across country programmes.
Controls, Compliance & Grant Management
Assist in reviewing and improving internal controls across finance, procurement, cash management, advances, asset management, and digital finance workflows.
Support grant budgeting, financial monitoring, donor reporting, compliance reviews, and grant close-out processes.
Help ensure finance processes are aligned with internal policies, donor requirements, and audit-ready documentation standards.
Country Team Support & Capacity Building
Provide practical finance support to country teams, particularly Madagascar, to strengthen accounting processes, reporting routines, and day-to-day problem solving.
Support country finance teams to understand and apply finance templates, dashboards, procurement tools, and reporting requirements consistently.
Share learning, guidance, and good practice across country and global finance teams to strengthen capacity and promote continuous improvement.
Please note, this is not an exhaustive list and other duties may be required in agreement with your line manager.
Experience, Knowledge and Competencies
Essential
Graduate in management, finance, accounting or a related field.
2 to 3 years of relevant work experience in finance, accounting, grants, audit.
Strong proficiency in MS applications, especially Excel for data cleaning, KPI analysis, reconciliations, exception reporting, management reporting, and financial analysis.
Experience analysing financial data, developing KPIs, identifying trends and exceptions, and producing dashboards using Power BI, Excel dashboards or similar platforms.
Interest in using technology to improve accounting processes, internal controls, procurement tracking, and financial reporting.
Ability to learn new financial systems, digital tools, and technology-enabled working methods quickly.
Highly organised with strong attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining accurate and reliable financial data.
Acts with the highest levels of accountability, integrity and confidentiality, recognising the importance of trusted financial management in a global charity context
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to explain financial information clearly to colleagues across country and global teams.
Desireable
Experience in a charity, NGO, donor-funded programme, social impact organisation, grant management and auditing is an advantage.
Experience working as part of a global team
Application process
Send your CV and a cover letter (max. 2 pages) outlining your suitability to via here by Friday 18 September. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficientth number of suitable applications.
Application guidelines
Please include a CV and a cover letter as part of your application
You must declare if you know anyone at UWS.
UWS is a safe recruitment employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of the selection process, please let us know.
Expect to hear by: 1 October 2026.st
273 million children are currently denied their right to quality education. We've been on a mission to end education poverty since 2009, together we have...
91,800+ children supported
397 schools established
1,915 teachers trained and employed
UWS is committed to the safeguarding of children, and ensuring we recruit safely is central to this commitment. All applicants will be required to undertake a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check (or country-equivalent background check) as a condition of employment. UWS is an equal opportunity employer and commits to treating all applicants fairly. We actively promote diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from under- represented groups. We oppose all forms of unlawful and unfair discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
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