Group Financial Controller

About MSI

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has around 10,000 team members working in 36 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centred care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For others, it means being able to look after the family they already have. For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a fairer, more equal world.

About the Role

Reporting to the CFO, the Group Financial Controller is a senior global Finance leader and a member of the Senior Leadership Team, accountable for the integrity of MSI’s actual financial position and control environment. The role combines technical depth, enterprise leadership and significant organisational influence, with direct engagement with the Executive Team, Board and relevant Committees.

Across MSI’s complex network of entities, countries, funding arrangements and regulatory environments, the role provides the financial foundations that enable the organisation to perform effectively. Timely, reliable financial information and clear forward visibility of cash and liquidity allow leaders to make faster, more confident decisions. Reliable reporting and proportionate controls protect MSI’s resources and the confidence of donors, regulators and the Board, while supporting effective country and operational delivery. The postholder also helps modernise and simplify Finance, reducing manual effort and enabling MSI to deploy its resources more effectively in support of its mission.

About You

For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.

This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.

Our values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction. They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all that they do.

We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open-mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.

We seek exceptional communicators who are self-motivated, solutions-driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous setting.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills:

Expert technical accounting and financial control capability, supported by sound enterprise and risk judgement.

Strong people and matrix leadership, able to lead experienced specialists, develop talent and secure delivery across teams with and without direct authority.

Clear and credible communication, including the ability to explain complex issues and challenge and influence senior stakeholders.

Confidence working with Finance systems and data and assessing the control implications of master data, automation and AI.

Ability to manage competing priorities and demanding reporting, audit and regulatory deadlines without compromising quality.

To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience:

Operating as a senior Finance leader within a large, complex organisation, contributing to organisation-wide decisions and advising CFO, Executive Team and Board-level stakeholders.

Leading group close, consolidation, complex balance-sheet accounting, statutory reporting and external audit across multiple entities and jurisdictions.

Developing and embedding financial policies, control frameworks and remediation across a decentralised or international organisation.

Leading a broad Finance portfolio, including treasury, liquidity, investment and banking, with relevant exposure to tax and entity governance.

Leading shared or transactional Finance operations and acting as business owner for significant Finance process, systems or operating-model change.

Leading and developing high-performing Finance teams, together with functional or matrix leadership beyond the direct reporting line.

Formal education/qualification

A recognised professional accountancy qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA

Current technical knowledge of applicable accounting, statutory and UK charity-reporting requirements, supported by relevant continuing professional development.

Please see job description here.

Location: London, UK (minimum of 2 days per week in the office).

Full-time: 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday.

Contract type: Permanent.

Salary: £95,400 - £119,300 per annum.

Salary band: BG 13

Closing date: 21st October 2026. Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.