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Avaaz

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51 - 200 employees

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

Avaaz is a global civic organization and online advocacy platform that mobilizes people worldwide to campaign on issues such as climate and environment, human rights, migration, and political causes. Through online petitions, fundraising appeals, member-driven campaigns and media outreach, Avaaz organizes collective action, asks supporters to contact policymakers, and runs public campaigns to influence policy and public opinion.

📋 Description

• Support Avaaz Finance in planning and implementing the Avaaz UK functional currency transition from USD to EUR, including: • - mapping the operational, accounting and reporting impact of the transition; • - helping define the cutover approach, including treatment of transition-period transactions and opening balances; • - coordinating input from QuickBooks specialists, accounting advisers, auditors and tax advisers; • - identifying data, reconciliation and reporting requirements; • - ensuring the transition is properly documented for audit and accounts purposes; • - helping Finance understand the impact on monthly reporting, budget tracking, revenue reporting and consolidated reporting. • Review current finance systems and workflows, including accounting software, expense management, banking/payment processes, card processes, revenue reporting and related trackers. • Document current pain points across cards, payments, expenses, approvals and invoice workflows. • Identify where current systems are creating manual work, control risk, delays or poor user experience. • Prepare recommendations for Finance and Operations leadership. • Support Avaaz in preparing for a future ERP transition, even if full implementation is led by a separate implementation partner. • Act as a central internal project lead across connected finance transformation workstreams.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in finance transformation, finance systems implementation, accounting operations or finance process improvement. • Experience working with multi-entity and multi-currency finance environments. • Strong understanding of accounting operations, AP, expenses, payments, reconciliations, close processes and financial reporting. • Proven ability to lead or support systems/process change in a complex organisation. • Experience translating finance team needs into system requirements and implementation plans. • Strong project management skills, including managing timelines, risks, dependencies and external vendors. • Ability to work independently, structure ambiguity and drive work forward. • Strong judgement: able to distinguish urgent from important, strategic from tactical, and good-enough from over-engineered. • Excellent communication skills, including ability to explain complex finance systems issues clearly to non-specialists. • Strong documentation skills. • Ability to work effectively in a fully remote, global and multicultural team. • High level of proficiency in English. • Experience with ERP implementation or ERP readiness work. • Experience with Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Online, Intuit Enterprise or similar finance systems. • Experience with spend management, AP automation, card or expense platforms such as Airwallex, Ramp, Brex, Concur or similar. • Experience supporting a functional currency transition or major accounting system migration. • Experience working with implementation partners, external accountants, auditors, tax advisers and software vendors. • Experience in nonprofit, NGO, advocacy, campaigning, grant-making or international organisations. • Experience with UK/US entity structures, VAT, multi-currency reporting or global payment operations.