Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Dakar, Senegal
Palladium is seeking to fill the role of Finance and Administration Director.
The role, which is designed to focus on strengthening health systems, is a full-time position for an upcoming USAID-funded award.
Palladium is a child-safe organisation that works with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
Responsibilities
- Provide overall management of administrative operations, including logistics, procurement, budgeting, finances, human resources, information technology, property, and security
- Oversee sound and effective systems for project administration and operations, including grants, subcontracts, procurement, and compliance
- Support COP and DCOP to maintain effective working relationships with donors and key government officials related to finance and operations
- Support the annual work-plan process and other strategic planning processes
- Coordinate budgeting processes for programme activities and conduct continual analysis and planning of operating staff and external project expenditures
- Manage the procurement process, collaborating closely with finance manager, including negotiating competitive prices and documenting decision-making processes in accordance with the operations manual and best practices
- Monitor salaries and benefits to ensure they are in line with agreed budget plans and competitive compensation structure benchmarking studies
- Ensure contractual obligations are sound and appropriate for project
- Supervise financial operations and monitoring of obligations, budgets, and expenditures
- Prepare budgets for annual work-plans and financial reports for USAID
- Coordinate and manage the mobilisation of short-term and long-term technical assistance and administrative staff
- Develop internal control measures to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting at the headquarters and field levels
- Conduct internal and coordinate external financial audits
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field
- Seven years, minimum, of experience managing finance, administration, and operations activities for complex and large-scale donor funded programmes
- Demonstrated experience with and understanding of USG and USAID financial procedures, rules, and regulations
- Experience in developing and managing budgets
- Three years, minimum, of experience managing a finance team
- Fluent writing, reporting, and presentational skills in French and English
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