Youth For Understanding (YFU) advances intercultural understanding, life-long learning, global competences, mutual respect, and social responsibility through transformational educational exchanges for generations of youth, families, and communities, supported by dedicated volunteers and professional staff.
YFU is a volunteer-based global non-profit community driven by the passion of people, consisting of 55+ member organizations across six continents. As a leader in intercultural exchange and educational programs for more than 60 years, YFU has impacted more than 260.000 students – and their host families, schools and networks – and more than 75.000 volunteers.
Our new global strategy sets the direction to operate as one global organization, and our organizational structure is currently being reorganized to meet the changed needs of our global YFU community.
To support its Global Office in managing, restructuring and administrating finances and operations, we are recruiting a
Director Finance and Administration.
The Director Finance and Administration reports to the Secretary General and is responsible for finance, controlling and administration of our two legal entities YFU IES and EEE YFU, together forming the Global Office. This new senior role has been created in Brussels to manage the financial and administrative transition process and design and implement efficient finance management, controlling and accounting processes, within the Global Office and with regard to financial interactions with YFU’s member organizations.
Responsibilities
Global finances & investments
- ICDF loans and grants assessment and support: manage and advice on risk management, global investment strategy
- Strategic financial support to MOs
- Managing investment operations
- Financial processes and policies: re-design the finance processes across the global membership, develop and implement financial policies
Finances and accounting
- Business Planning and Budgeting: Analyze and forecast cost, performance and cash flow and provide budget planning
- Accounts management and consolidation: manage accounting operations, reconciliations, project/grant tracking
- Finance operations: finalize migration of finance operations to Brussels; invoicing and payments, liaise with external accountant, auditor, tax advisor and payroll accountant
Controlling and compliance
- Management reporting: financial reporting on cash flow, P&L
- Audit management
- Legal and Tax compliance: Manage and complete Audit and Tax return filings
Legal aspects and contracts
- Management of contracts and legal setup and registration requirements of the organizations
Candidate profile and qualifications
- Master’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Finance, Accounting, CPA or relevant field
- At least 10 years of professional finance and administrative experience in matrixed and multinational organization(s), at senior level
- Start-up mentality, capability and drive to implement change and solve challenges, with an eye for detail
- Knowledge of accounting principles for Non-Profit organizations
- Proven experience in organizing resources and establishing priorities and working with virtual, culturally diverse and multi-disciplinary teams
- Experience in developing and implementing finance and accounting policies, procedures and systems
- Ability to coach, mentor and develop (financial/ administrative) capacity of member organization’s staff
- Detail-oriented and efficient organizational, project and time management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and fluency in French or Dutch for collaborating with Belgian authorities is a requirement.
- Occasional travel
Framework: What we offer
- A Belgian fulltime permanent contract
- A competitive salary and a comprehensive employee benefits package
- The opportunity to create and operate an efficient and contemporary finance and controlling function
- An attractive level of autonomy and responsibility in an intercultural, collaborative and energetic working environment
- Work in a small organization with a diverse and committed team to deliver impact
- The opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization with global operations
Application details
- Meaningful application, including motivation letter with expected salary and comprehensive CV including references and current/ past salary
- Submit by email to work@yfu.world with reference “Director Finance and Administration” (in email title)
- EU work permit
- Location: Brussels, Belgium
- Starting date: immediate, or as per availability
YFU IES encourages any person with the required qualifications to apply, without distinction to gender, disability, social or ethnic origins, religion, convictions or sexual orientation. YFU IES recognizes different types of experience, including professional and volunteering.
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