Deadline: 17 June, 2022
Location: Juba, South Sudan
Save the Children International has opened applications for the role of Deputy Finance Director.
The organisation works to ensure children around the world get health care, food and shelter as well as learning and child protection services.
Responsibilities
- Act as the key strategic finance business partner to the finance director and program me implementation team to support key decision making
- Provide financial expertise to the donor budget proposal process
- Work with the programme implementation team to phase and realign budgets
- Provide high quality weekly and monthly financial BvA reports
- Mitigate the risk of donor disallowances by ensuring that awards are proactively managed and closed out effectively from a financial perspective
- Ensure budget holders understand their responsibilities
- Support development and maintenance of training in budgeting, financial policies, and financial system and reporting tools
- Identify and effectively manage all key risks
- Implement and evaluate statistical models, systems and serve as a trusted advisor to finance director
- Provide value added ad hoc financial analysis to budget holders
- Undertake capacity assessment of partners’ organisation in order to identify capacity gaps and areas of support that the partners will require for effective implementation of the programme financial management requirements
- Undertake regular support visits to the partners organisations
- Support the development of partners’ project budgets, work plan, cash transfer plans and procurement plans
- Support partners’ external audit exercise and follow up to ensure that the auditors’ recommendations are followed up and implemented
- Monitor and follow up the implementation of the agreed work plan and budget to ensure that the programme objectives are realised in accordance with the programme and partnership agreement and take the necessary actions for any identified deviations
Requirements
- Degree in Finance and Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACMA, ACA, ACCA) strongly recommended
- Five years, minimum, of management experience in a corporate or an NGO environment, with three years at a management level within a finance department
- Strategic mindset with the ability to lead, inspire and achieve results in a challenging context
- Strong team player
- In-depth technical and administrative knowledge and ability to connect the financial and non-financial information to generate insights and recommendations for programme effectiveness
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with diverse sets of stakeholders
- Strong analytical, decision making and strategic planning skills with the ability to articulate complex information in an easy to understand manner
- Ability to identify weaknesses and drive continuous improvement
- Ability to prioritise, plan ahead, and manage a complex and diverse workload with tight deadlines
- Ability to coach, mentor, delegate appropriately and provide developmental guidance
- Excellent understanding of business and financial planning including strategic modelling
- Excellent understanding of budgeting and budget management
- Excellent understanding of financial systems and procedures
- Excellent understanding of computerised accounting packages, Excel, PowerPoint and Word
- Written and verbal fluency in English
To apply and for more information, click here.
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