Financial Controller, Moonshot
£65-78k
Anti-extremism data analysis and advertising
Be an early applicant
Anti-extremism data analysis and advertising
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£65-78k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To end online harms and provide vulnerable people with positive, supportive messages and services.
Role
Who you are
- Do you have a passion for international finance and a genuine interest in working for an organisation tackling online harms? Do you have experience working in finance and want to develop further?
- ACCA qualification
- Proven experience in a similar finance role
- Excellent knowledge of cost accounting and reporting
- Strong expertise in risk analysis, budgeting, and forecasting
- Advanced proficiency with Google Workspace (especially Google Sheets) or MS Excel
- Exceptional attention to detail and highly organised
- Ability to complete tasks within tight deadlines
- Proactive, self-motivated, and tenacious in identifying and investigating inconsistencies
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- We require and will check on candidates' eligibility to work in the UK and pass any relevant security clearance procedures per the needs of clients
Desirable
- Availability for immediate start or short notice period
- Experience preparing for and facilitating audits
- Grant reporting and project accounting experience
- Xero bookkeeping experience
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Financial Controller to join Moonshot, supporting our finance team
- In this role, you will help drive the organisation forward by continuing to improve our financial processes, lead our cash management processes as well as reporting requirements
- Lead the cash forecasting process in both the short and medium term
- Lead the multi-currency consolidation of five operating companies across the UK, Ireland, Canada, and the United States
- Prepare and analyse project profitability, variance analysis, and management reports
- Liaise with project teams on a monthly basis regarding adherence to grant/contract rules, billing, and margin reporting
- Support the Finance Director in preparing monthly and quarterly KPI and financial reports for clients, investors, and the Board
- Facilitate the annual audit process with external auditors
- Provide line management to one direct report
- Work with external payroll agents to process and review payroll for UK, US, Canada, and Ireland entities
- Process and review accounts payable and receivable transactions, ensuring timely reconciliation with monthly supplier accounts
- Coordinate and participate in regular meetings with clients and the leadership team
- Ensure compliance across the organisation, including statutory and sales tax returns across all entities
- Investigate any financial inconsistencies
- Undertake other activities as required
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Events such as the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville and the January 6 Insurrection are a grim warning of the dangers of allowing extremist material to spread unchecked. Unfortunately, the internet makes this content easy to access, with extremists able to spread their message to vulnerable people across social media and through web searches. Moonshot CVE exists to counter this trend with data analysis and careful advertising strategies.
Unlike other ways of preventing access to dangerous materials, such as site blocking and blacklisted search terms, Moonshot uses its Redirect Method to purchase ad space alongside extremist content. Not all of the advertising is designed to counter extremism. Still, it humanises the targets of propaganda and offers an alternative for people who would otherwise go on to be radicalised by extremist materials. This was trialled effectively against ISIS and was rolled out to combat white supremacists and dangerous conspiracy theories.
Moonshot closed a funding round in 2022 that will be used to drive its international expansion and increase the range of its operations. It is focusing on forming partnerships with tech companies like Google and Facebook to protect their users from extremist content, and is working to develop corporate security products to complement its offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2021
$7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $7m
Company benefits
- 30 daysʼ paid annual leave
- Private healthcare package, including coverage for partners and children
- Employee Assistance Programme providing access to mental health support
- Generous maternity and paternity package
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Vidhya Ramalingam
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Board Member for Life After Hate. Was previously a Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
Ross Frenett
(Co-Founder & Co-CEO)Co-Chair for the Radicalisation Awareness Network. Was Director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, and before that a freelance Terrorism Analyst.
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