[Hiring] Senior Finance Transformation & Systems Consultant @Avaaz

Role Description

Avaaz is seeking an experienced, mission-driven Senior Finance Transformation & Systems Consultant to support a major period of finance systems, process and operating model change. This is a fixed-term internal transformation role within the Finance team.

The consultant will work alongside Finance leadership to help design, coordinate and deliver connected workstreams, including:

• Avaaz UK’s functional currency transition from USD to EUR
• Finance operations improvements across payments, cards, expenses and AP workflows
• Assessment and possible implementation of a spend/AP/card platform
• Preparation for a future ERP transition
• Alignment of finance systems and reporting with Avaaz’s evolving multi-entity, multi-currency operating model

This role exists to help Avaaz move through this transition in a structured, practical and sustainable way, while preparing the organisation for its longer-term finance systems architecture.

Responsibilities

• Functional currency transition and systems roadmap:
  • Support Avaaz Finance in planning and implementing the Avaaz UK functional currency transition from USD to EUR.
  • Map the operational, accounting and reporting impact of the transition.
  • Help define the cutover approach, including treatment of transition-period transactions and opening balances.
  • Coordinate input from QuickBooks specialists, accounting advisers, auditors and tax advisers.
  • Identify data, reconciliation and reporting requirements.
  • Ensure the transition is properly documented for audit and accounts purposes.
  • Help Finance understand the impact on monthly reporting, budget tracking, revenue reporting and consolidated reporting.
• Finance operations, spend, AP, cards and payments improvement:
  • 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.
  • Define selection criteria for a spend/AP/card platform.
  • Assess vendor capabilities across global cards, multi-currency payments, approvals, expense management, invoice processing, VAT, reporting, controls and ERP integration.
  • Coordinate demos and vendor follow-up.
  • Prepare recommendations for Finance and Operations leadership.
  • Support implementation if a platform is selected.
• ERP readiness and multi-entity finance design:
  • Support Avaaz in preparing for a future ERP transition.
  • Help define future-state finance requirements.
  • Map processes and data flows that will need to be reflected in a new ERP.
  • Support chart of accounts, dimensions, entity, currency, campaign and reporting design considerations.
  • Identify workflows that should be cleaned up before ERP implementation.
  • Prepare data, documentation and process maps for implementation partners.
  • Ensure system design supports audit, tax, VAT, transfer pricing and reporting requirements.
• Project management, vendor coordination and documentation:
  • Act as a central internal project lead across connected finance transformation workstreams.
  • Build and maintain project plans, timelines, risk logs and decision logs.
  • Coordinate external advisers, implementation partners and vendors.
  • Prepare clear decision materials for Finance and Operations leadership.
  • Make dependencies visible and actively managed.
  • Keep workstreams moving without overloading core Finance team members.
  • Document decisions, workflows, controls and handover materials.
  • Support knowledge transfer within the Finance team.
  • Help embed improvements so they survive beyond the contract period.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Candidate Profile

• A systems thinker who also understands day-to-day finance operations.
• Senior enough to operate with limited hand-holding.
• Practical and implementation-oriented, not just advisory.
• Comfortable working across messy, real-world finance processes.
• Able to bring structure to complexity.
• Collaborative, low-ego and mission-aligned.
• Able to work with both strategic leaders and hands-on finance staff.
• Clear, organised and calm under pressure.
• Focused on making Finance easier to run, not more complicated.

Location

Avaaz is a global organisation, with most of our work done remotely. Our staff are based all over the world. For this position, candidates based in the Americas, Europe, Africa or overlapping time zones are preferred, although strong candidates from other regions are encouraged to apply.

Contract Structure

This is a fixed-term consulting contract, expected to run for an initial 6 months, with possibility to extend depending on the candidate profile, project needs and Avaaz’s implementation timeline.

Compensation

Compensation will vary with location, experience and time commitment, and will be competitive with international NGO and finance transformation consulting roles. Specific details will be discussed with shortlisted candidates.

Application Timeline

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis, and encourage all candidates to submit applications as soon as possible.