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| Finance Manager | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Herat, |
| Categories | Finance, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-09-08 | Close Date | 2022-09-14 |
| Vacancy No | WCUK/22/405 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | Regular |
| Education | Bachelor of Commerce (BCOM) degree with a major in Accounting or Finance | Experience | Several years’ experience in managing finances, preferably with experience in INGOs, UN, or donors outside of Afghanistan. |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | As per WCUK salary Scale |
About Company
About War Child UK: War Child, the specialist charity for children affected by conflict. For more than two decades we’ve delivering high-impact programmes that are rebuilding lives across Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic and Yemen. We understand children’s needs, respect their rights, and put them at the centre of the solution - from reintegrating children formerly associated with armed groups and armed forces (CAAFAG) in the Central African Republic to reuniting children with their families in Afghanistan. We look forward to a world in which the lives of children are no longer torn apart by war. This is a vision that can only be realised through the collective actions of children themselves, communities and their leaders, organisations like War Child, governments and key decision makers.
Job Description
Job Purpose
Finance Manager will lead to ensuring timely, high quality, and reliable financial information and analysis are readily available to inform program decision making. Within this remit, specific requirements will include: budget management and tracking spending; generating up to date and timely financial monitoring reports and flagging analysis to identify and project potential under/overspending; ensure timely preparation of financial reports and documents for WCUK HQ and donors; participate in strategic planning and decision making under the guidance of the CD.
Financial Management & Administration
- Lead on all financial management, reporting, and planning across the Afghanistan program;
- Advice and support the HoSS in designing and implementing appropriate financial controls and budget management mechanisms, including tools for tracking and analyzing spending across multiple grants;
- Ensure compliance and timeliness of financial reports for WCUK and donors;
- Provide Support to HoSS in contributing to the development of finance strategy, country annual plans, with specific reference to finance;
- Lead on financial risk and coverage analysis to inform strategic decision making;
- Monitor and coordinate compliance with financial policies, procedures, and practices in all WCUK Afghanistan projects;
- Timely development of Afghanistan monthly financial reports and budget versus actual (BVA) analysis for SMT and program teams joint review;
- Management of WCUK Afghanistan cash flow and bank accounts in Afghanistan including deposits; online processing; withdrawals; and bank reconciliations;
- Lead on budget development and financial aspects of proposal development;
- Lead on all financial reporting for WCUK, donors, and auditors.
- Manage all audit processes, including statutory, donor, internal;
- Ensure War Child remains compliant with all in-country regulations.
Capacity building staff & local partners
- Build capacity of the finance staff in the country office through on-the-job training, mentoring, coaching as well as training and workshops;
- Contribute to the designing and implementation of capacity building initiatives for WCUK partners as part of organizational development commitments
- Build the capacity of local partners in finance/logistics
Management of staff
- Supervise all finance staff in Afghanistan, including all HR requirements, regular team meetings, one-to-one meetings, etc.
- Lead on development plans for all finance staff in Afghanistan and actively develop best practices in all projects through training; coaching and mentoring;
- Contribute to creating a culture committed to the safeguarding of children and adults and compliant to War Child’s Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk Policies.
Overall
- Advice and support the HoSS on the above subjects.
- Update relevant support team members at HQ about developments in Finance.
Job Requirement
Person Specification
War Child in Afghanistan operates in a dynamic environment with a team of highly motivated and dedicated staff. The right candidate will share these qualities and bring effective leadership to a diverse team. The successful candidate will be a creative problem solver and foster a solution-based approach to management.
2.1 Experience and mandatory criteria:
- Afghan Nationals only
- Bachelor of Commerce (BCOM) degree with a major in Accounting or Finance
- Several years’ experience in managing finances, preferably with experience in INGOs, UN, or donors outside of Afghanistan.
- Familiarity with project cycle financial management and donor reporting.
- Comfortable and willing to work in a dynamic security context.
- Demonstrated experience managing substantial budgets in excess of 1 million GBP.
- Experience designing and implementing financial best practices.
- Demonstrated experience of capacity building of staff through coaching, training, and mentoring.
- Dynamic and motivated with a positive and collegial attitude to joint problem-solving.
- Strong focus on timely and quality outputs.
- Self-reflective and open to feedback from direct reports and line management.
- Able to work under pressure, tight deadlines, and competing priorities.
2.2 Technical Skills/Expertise:
- Must be able to communicate effectively in English.
- Pashtu and/or Dari are assets.
- Excellence in the use of excel and financial management software.
- Supervisory and management experience.
2.3 Competencies:
- Active problem solving with a focus on collegial working and supportive staff to own solutions.
- Cultural sensitivity and ability to work with a diverse team.
- Personal commitment and drive for timely and high-quality results.
- Strategic perspective and keen to take ownership of finance functions, challenges, and solutions.
- Proactive, able to multi-task, and flexible to changing priorities.
Submission Guideline
How to apply
- Please go to this link: https://airtable.com/shrpvBCQHx99NOCdZ, fill in your information and attach your documents before the closing date - (14-Sept-2022).
- Applications after closing date will not be accepted.
- Please note that there is no telephonic inquiry and only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for written test/interview.
Child safeguarding and Adults at Risk
Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm. Successful applicants will be expected to be compliant and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, our Code of Conduct and PSEA: Adults at Risk Policy. You can find the Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk policy here: Child Safeguarding
Pre-employment checks
Employment with War Child will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:
a satisfactory police record check to include a International/National Criminal Record Check, and a clear vetting and Due Diligence check
- receipt of three satisfactory references