Financial Controller, Moonshot
£60-70k
Anti-extremism data analysis and advertising
Be an early applicant
Anti-extremism data analysis and advertising
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£60-70k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To end online harms and provide vulnerable people with positive, supportive messages and services.
Role
Who you are
- Attention to detail and highly organised
- Ability to complete tasks within tight deadlines
- Good knowledge and experience of using Google Workspace especially Google Sheet or MS Excel
- CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified.,
- Excellent knowledge of cost accounting and reporting
- Excellent knowledge or risk analysis, budgeting and forecasting
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Tenacity in identifying and investigating inconsistencies
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Previous experience in a similar finance role
- Eligible to work in the UK
Desirable
- Available for immediate start/short notice
- Experience of preparing for audits
- Grant reporting and project accounting
- Xero bookkeeping experience
What the job involves
- Do you have a passion for a career in international finance and a genuine interest in working for an organisation tackling online harms - from violent extremism and gender-based violence to disinformation and child online exploitation
- Do you have experience working in finance and want to develop further?
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Financial Controller to join Moonshot, supporting the finance team
- In this role you will help push the organisation forward by continuing to improve its financial processes, as well as helping to manage the organisation's key contracts and reporting requirements
- Leading on the multi-currency consolidation of 5 operating companies, across the UK, Ireland, Canada and the United States
- Prepare and analyse project profitability, variance analysis and management reports
- Liaise with the project team on a monthly basis on adherence to grant/contract rules, billing and margin reporting
- Support the Financial Director in preparing monthly and quarterly KPI and financial reports to clients, investors, and the board
- Facilitate the audit process with the external auditors on a yearly basis
- Line management of one direct report
- Working with external payroll agents, processing and reviewing payroll for UK, US, Canada and Ireland entities
- Processing and reviewing of accounts payables and receivables transactions, and ensure timely reconciliation with monthly supplier accounts
- Coordinate and participate in meetings with clients and leadership team on a regular basis
- Responsible for the compliance across the organisation including statutory and VAT returns across all entities
- Investigate any inconsistencies
- 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, but 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-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-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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