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Posted 1 year ago |
Job Title: Finance Coordinator
Location: Borno, Nigeria
Job Schedule: Full time
Grade: 3
Job Category: Finance
Contract Length: Open Ended
Team/Programme: Finance/Humanitarian
Child Safeguarding
- Level 3: either the role holder will have access to personal data about children and/or young people as part of their work; or they will be working in a ‘regulated’ position (accountant, barrister, solicitor, legal executive); therefore a police check will be required (at ‘standard’ level in the UK or equivalent in other countries).
Role Purpose
- The Finance Coordinator role will support the Area Office, Humanitarian Finance Manager and/or Country Finance Manager in the relevant geographic area in emergency response programmes in delivering the Finance teams’ objectives in a timely and accurate manner.
- Supervise the Finance officer(s) and Finance Assistant(s) ensure that processing and reporting deadlines are fully met; financial controls and procedures are strictly adhered to by all field office staff
- The main responsibilities of this post will vary according to the terms of reference for each assignment. The post-holder is likely to undertake senior deployments.
Scope of Role
- Reports to: Humanitarian Finance Manager
- Dimensions: Direct reporting
- Staff directly reporting to this post: Finance Officers and Finance Assistants
- Technical responsibility: Yes
- Budget responsibility: None
Key Areas of Accountability
Financial Reporting and Control:
- Prepare and Monitor accurate and timely submission of financial reports and attachments to members, donors and government regulatory agencies.
- Responsible for checking and verifying the food voucher e-payment to beneficiaries on all humanitarian cash transfer awards.
- Compile Monthly transaction listings for review by the budget holders and provide upon request by the budget holders.
- Provide the budget holders a monthly update on the budget variance analysis.
- Review and signs off purchase orders and represent Finance at Procurement Committee Meetings
Budget Management, Monitoring and Control:
- Support the Humanitarian Finance Manager in the master budget development for the response
- Support budget holders in the proposal budget costings, creating Reporting Templates and DEAs
- Support budget holders in the understanding of budget reports including phasing and re-phasing of budgets
- Support budget holder in the realignment of budgets
- Support the Humanitarian Finance manager in the preparation of the field office Budget with potential gaps actively highlighted and communicated for inclusion in new proposals.
- Provide support to budget holders in reviewing and understanding monthly financial budget monitoring reports and follow up on any recommended action points.
- Provide support to Humanitarian Finance Manager with advice/training to budget holders on budget management and phasing.
Audit & Evaluation:
- Assist with the Internal and External audit preparations including putting together relevant documentation and TOR for the Audit
- Ensures humanitarian grants audits are conducted effective
- Follow up on audit issues and provide appropriate response with support from Humanitarian Finance Manager
Working Relationships
- Internal: All sub and area office staff.
- External: Bank/ Auditors
Qualifications and Experience
Essential:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting / Finance / Business Administration or other relevant professional qualification with 3-5 years working experience in relevant field.
- Extensive experience, including first phase responses, with NGOs in an international emergency environment or in fragile states.
- Knowledge of the requirements and experience managing grants from the major emergency donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting.
- Experience of and well-developed skills in staff management and supervision. Proven strong coaching and capacity building skills.
- Good attention to detail and analytical skills
- Computer literate (i.e. WORD, advanced Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, financial systems).
- Cultural awareness and ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people
- Proven experience in financial management and producing appropriate management information to support strategy development and decision-making by budget holders and programme implementers
- Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure
- Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organise a demanding workload comprised of diverse and challenging tasks and responsibilities
- Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing multicultural teams.
- Experience of managing or supporting programmes in each stage of the project cycle, including development of funding proposals, budgeting, technical and financial monitoring in the context of grants/restricted funding sources.
Desirable:
- Experience of Project Management, M&E Management or Funding Coordination would be a appreciated
- Fluent in English
Competences and Behaviours (Our Values in Practice)
Core Competencies:
- Leading and inspiring others – Delivering results – Developing self and others – Problem solving and decision making – Innovating and adapting – Applying technical and professional expertise – Working effectively with others – Communicating with impact – Networking
- Adhere to SCI Values: Accountability; Ambition; Collaboration; Creativity; Integrity
Accountability:
- Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.
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Deadline: June 2, 2023
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