Work Type/s:

Permanent employee, full time or part time (at least 0.6 FTE). Contractor or retainer arrangement considered. Flexibility available. Please specify your preference when applying.

Salary:

$140,000 - $160,000 pa + super depending on experience, pro rata for part time

Location:

Any Australian location, east coast hours preferred, working from home in Australia (supported by ACCR); or ACCR’s Sydney or Canberra office.

Role:

This new senior role will provide strategic financial leadership for ACCR in a dynamic period of rapid organisational growth. The position holder will come with extensive relevant CFO (or similar) experience, and be capable of quickly understanding ACCR’s context so as to be a trusted financial advisor to the Executive Director, our Board, and other leaders. The position will be accountable for ACCR’s financial management overall, leading a 1-2 person finance team. 

You’ll love this job if:

• You’re excited about using your extensive strategic finance experience within a climate-focused not-for-profit organisation.

• You would be energised by a growing organisation with an ambitious strategy for impact and a highly skilled, multi-disciplinary team. You get the balance right - enabling growth and change, while ensuring prudential financial management

• You can take a high level, future-focused perspective, though don’t mind jumping into the details as needed to ensure scrupulous accuracy and compliance.

• You enjoy communicating the impact of financial analysis meaningfully with non-finance professionals - you understand your audience and use tailored tools to ensure deep understanding.

Responsibilities

The role will include the following types of tasks:

• In collaboration with the Executive Director, develop and implement strategic plans, providing financial input into ACCR’s strategic direction and to guide fundraising targets and donor engagement

• Lead and mentor a small finance team to deliver exceptional financial management

• In collaboration with the Chief Operations Officer, develop and monitor finance and balance sheet-related policies and internal controls

• Oversee ACCR’s financial and cash flow performance including developing relevant financial models, budgets and dynamically monitoring and re-forecasting

• Manage ACCR’s investment portfolio and liquidity and implement and make recommendations as to its reserves and investment policies

• Attend board-level meetings and support the Audit and Compliance Committee in the performance of its finance-related functions

Criteria

We’re looking for someone with these types of skills and experience in the following areas:

• Relevant tertiary qualifications e.g. accountant with CA or CPA or equivalent qualifications

• Extensive experience in relevant finance roles, ideally at least 10 years’ experience as a CFO or in a similar capacity 

• An understanding of the not-for-profit space, ideally with experience in a not-for-profit organisation funded by grants and donations (including the development of budgets and financial reports for grantors) and an understanding of the impact of DGR status

• Strong change management and strategy implementation skills

• First class stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience engaging at board level

• Critical and analytical thinking with excellent attention to detail 

• Alignment with the values and mission of ACCR

• Able to clear a police check

If you don’t meet every point above, please still apply if you can see your skills well used in this role. 

Accountable to:

• Executive Director

Key Relationships:

• Finance Manager, Strategic Partnerships Lead, Chief Operating Officer, Chief of Staff

Background:

ACCR is a non-profit shareholder advocacy and research organisation founded in 2012. We use shareholder strategy to enable investors to escalate engagements with heavy-emitting companies in their portfolios, and provide research and analysis for institutional capital seeking long term value in a zero-emissions economy. Thanks to a heightened awareness of the importance of our work, and the urgency to act on climate change, we are growing rapidly. More information about our latest work can be found in our FY23 Annual Review. In 2023, ACCR won ESG engagement initiative of the year - Asia at Environmental Finance’s Sustainable Investment Awards.

ACCR has a dynamic team of over 30 driven and experienced staff, mostly based in Australia, working globally. Our growing team has a wide range of relevant expertise - climate science, communications, engineering, law, equities analysis, finance, investor relations, IT and more. Due to our high levels of staff satisfaction and engagement, ACCR won one of Voice Project’s Best Workplace Awards for 2021.

What we offer: 

• We enjoy flexible work hours and supportive home-based working for those who want it. 

• Personal leave is double the statutory requirement, plus additional paid leave from Christmas to New Year. Option to purchase additional leave.

• We value peer learning and each of us has a professional development budget. 

• Our Employee Assistance Program also includes our employees’ households. 

• ACCR offices are accessible and further detail can be provided.

Application Guidelines

We use Applied as our recruitment platform, helping us reduce the risk of unconscious bias in our hiring process.

The application will require answering 3 short questions so give yourself time to complete it. Once started, you can save and return to your application before submitting. For example;

• How do you approach communicating financial reports and analysis to (a) senior management and (b) the board? What have you learnt over time about this and how have you adjusted your approach?

  [Word limit is 250 words]

Please note, for this role, ACCR is only able to employ those who have the pre-existing legal right to work in Australia.

We value diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace. ACCR encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people of all cultures, abilities, sex and genders. 

ACCR is committed to improving accessibility to enable the full participation of a diverse workforce. If there are any alterations to this recruitment process that would assist you in applying, please let us know.