Executive Finance Opportunity: CIVICUS Is Hiring a Remote Head of Finance | Earn Nearly USD 88K Annually

Overview

CIVICUS, a global alliance that strengthens citizen action and civil society worldwide, is hiring a Head of Finance for a full-time, permanent, fully remote role. The annual salary is USD 87,845.85, excluding benefits. The Head of Finance reports to the Chief Operations Officer and oversees the Finance Manager and a team of seven indirect finance staff, providing strategic and operational leadership for financial governance, transparency, accountability and long-term sustainability.

Responsibilities include preparing financial reports for management, donors, the Board and other stakeholders, leading budgeting and forecasting, preparing annual financial statements, ensuring compliance with IFRS, US GAAP and other standards, managing month-end and year-end processes, coordinating statutory, donor and project audits and reviewing donor financial reports. The role also develops finance policies, procedures and controls, maintains the finance manual, drives automation and digital finance solutions, ensures tax and regulatory compliance in multiple jurisdictions, supports proposal budgets, builds financial management capacity among programme managers and leads and mentors a geographically dispersed team.

Requirements

Applicants need a recognised accounting qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CIMA or CIPFA, or an equivalent, at least seven years of post-qualification experience and at least three years as a Head of Finance, with senior leadership experience in organisations of similar size and complexity and excellent English. Essential experience includes nonprofit financial management, restricted donor funding, institutional donor regulations, compliance and governance, budgeting and forecasting, reporting, audit management, internal controls, training non-finance teams and leading distributed teams. Knowledge of European Union, European government and US foundation requirements is valuable. Knowledge of human rights and social justice principles, experience with automated financial systems and process improvement and another UN language are desirable.

How to apply

CIVICUS requires all application materials to be prepared manually and states that AI-generated CVs, resumes and cover letters are not accepted and may lead to disqualification. Only shortlisted candidates are contacted, roughly three weeks after the closing date.

Key dates

The deadline is 14 August 2026 at 11:59 p.m. SAST.