Save the Children recruits 01 Finance and Compliance Manager

Finance and Compliance Manager

Finance and Compliance Manager

The Finance and Compliance Manager will be responsible for overall budget monitoring, accepted accounting practices, reporting and review of transactions for accuracy and compliance with internal polices and NORAD regulations. The Finance and Compliance Manager works with the program staff, the finance and the award teams at Juba and field levels for ensuring that the program operation meets the SCI/donor requirements including the delivery of budget planning, monitoring, and reporting in a timely and quality manner.

On a day to day basis the program will interphase with the Award, finance, logistics and program operation teams to deliver its roles that cover financial data processing in Agresso systems, review of transactions and financial reports generation for NORAD.

The position holder will report to Finance Director with a dotted line of management to NORAD program Manager.  The Finance and Compliance Manager is responsible for supervising and controlling the CO’s spending for NORAD and works in coordination with the program operations and finance teams at Juba and field levels to ensure that the program budgets are utilized and monitored in full compliance with the donor requirements.

Qualifications and experience Essential

Degree in business related course and chartered qualification (CPA, ACCA, ACA,CIMA) in Accountancy.

Over five years of professional experience in auditing & compliance, grant compliance and financial management.

Demonstrable track record in effective team membership and communications. The post-holder is a member of a multi-disciplinary team and will be required to provide appropriate and timely input to other technical sectors in order to achieve broader project objectives

Ability to communicate effectively and work across departments, with demonstrated experience in integrated project activities.

Familiarity with SCI financial systems and tools.

Previous experience working with partners.

Proven ability to prepare budgets and donor financial reports

Desirable

Knowledge and experience using various financial packages especially Agresso systems

Significant experience in financial monitoring, budgetary systems, and controls with strong analytical skills;

Strong organizational, interpersonal, and time management skills while working in a dynamic, team setting in a challenging environment

Willingness to travel extensively to remote and harsh locations to monitor financial processes and provide capacity building for staff

Excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written

Contract length: 12 Months with possible extension

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday

All children learn from a quality basic education and that,

Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children.  We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information:

Please apply using a cover letter and up-to-date CV as a single document. Please also include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations.  A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/jobs

We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

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Job description

  23 Jul 2019 – 20:59 UTC

 Juba, South Sudan

 Finance

 Fixed-term contract

 Full-time