SOS Children’s Villages Belgium recruits 01 Financial consultant

SOS Children’s Villages Belgium is looking for a financial consultant for a program implemented in Syria. The consultant will be responsible for the financial follow-up during the last months of the program and its closure and for the preparation and organization of the financial audit by an external auditor.

The terms of reference of the offer can be found in attachment.

Applicants are invited to send the required information  to

[email protected]

before 26 July (9:00)

• Have a strong and demonstrated experience in terms of financial management of multi-annual development programs implemented by (I)NGOs
• Have a strong experience in terms of (compliance with) institutional donor regulations, and preferably with EU regulations (DG NEAR)
• Have an extended experience in accounting, financial reporting, financial controlling and adjustments, financial reconciliation
• Have an extended experience in coordinating audit processes, preferably audits of EU programs.
• Have impeccable communication skills and the ability to work with management and executive staff.
• Have a good command of Arabic (for contact with the local teams) and English (for contact with SOS Belgium)
• Have strong skills on report writing and on sharing the outputs of the consultancy process with the project stakeholders

The consultant is expected to have a hands-on mentality, to combine financial management skills with practical work (archiving, entering corrections in raw data etc.), to work autonomous combined with transparent teamwork, and to respect strict deadlines.

The offer must include:

• A proposal of the overall methodology of the assignment
• A financial proposal with the fee per working day
• The CV of the consultant, clearly focusing on the competences required for this assignment
• Overview of relevant consultations of other sort-like projects