Finance Manager
Finance Manager
Company Description
Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery with an effective and proven multi-disciplinary model. Our wholly owned social enterprise, Slave-Free Alliance, provides services to global companies and public bodies seeking to protect their operations and supply chains against the risks of modern slavery and labor exploitation. We have active program in the UK, USA, Ethiopia and Uganda, reaching approximately 200,000 adults and children a year. Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance have staff and volunteers involved in operational support, fundraising or other initiatives in Australia. Hope for Justice exists to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery by identifying victims, supporting survivors and preventing exploitation. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you.Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion. We are a global organization with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.
Position
We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to join our team on a 6 month fixed-term contract to provide essential cover during a period of extended leave. This role is critical in ensuring continuity across our finance operations, with a strong focus on grant management, management reporting, and statutory accounting across our global group of entities (UK, US, and Africa).
This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced, mission‑driven organization and who brings both technical expertise and excellent stakeholder management skills.
Requirements
- Maintain the granular level data on each grant, monitoring spending against restricted funds and communicating available spending/completion of spending.
- Recording monthly restricted grant spending against budgets, and reporting variances.
- Attending monthly meetings to present grant spending updates.
- Allocating costs to grants and posting journals in the finance system
- Preparing monthly grant drawdown documents and submitting drawdown requests.
- Support the income generating teams with Donor Financial Reports, ensuring data is provided in adequate time and in the required format, as per each bid requirement
- Reconciling donor income in accounting records to donor portals
- Assist with submission of grant records for annual statutory audits
- Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.
Benefits
Other information
Benefits of working at Hope for Justice: Hope for Justice is committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff. This includes:
Medical, dental and vison benefits with employer contributions
Supplemental life insurance
Hybrid and Flexible working environments
4 weeks paid vacation (prorated based on start date and hours worked)
11 paid holidays
8 accrued sick days
Birthday Day
Dependent leave
Paid maternity and paternity leave
401(k) with employer match
Professional development opportunities
Employee Assistance Program for staff and their family.
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Job Type: Part time - 30 hours per week, 6 month fixed term contract ending October 1st, 2026.
Salary: Up to $60,000 depending on experience
Closing date: March 27th, 2026
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy – to view this please click here. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.