Finance & Compliance Consultant

1. BACKGROUND:

The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization based in Beirut. CLDH was created in 2006 by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily), which has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human rights violations.

CLDH monitors the human rights situation in Lebanon, fights enforced disappearance, impunity, arbitrary detention andracism and rehabilitates the victims of torture. CLDH regularly organizes press conferences, workshops and advocacy meetings on human rights issues in Lebanon and collects, records and documents human rights abuses in reports and press releases.

CLDH team on the ground supports initiatives aimed at determining the fate of all missing persons in Lebanon.

CLDH regularly follows up on numerous cases of arbitrary detention and torture in Lebanon in coordination with Lebanese and international organizations, and with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention WGAD and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.

CLDH opened in 2007 a Rehabilitation Center for the victims of torture in Beirut, Centre Nassim, member of IRCT (International Rehabilitation Council for Torture victims), which provides multi-disciplinary professional support and case management for victims of torture and their families.

CLDH compiles a daily press review on human rights violations and on-going judiciary cases in Lebanon and updates several human rights blogs.

CLDH is a founding member of the Euro-Mediterranean Federation against Enforced Disappearance (FEMED), a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Network of Human Rights (REMDH) and a member of the SOS Torture Network of the World Organization against Torture (OMCT).

2. Job Profile:

Under the direction and supervision of the Executive Director, the Finance and Compliance Consultant will assume primary responsibility for planning, developing and
implementing the procedures and the manual of the Finance Department at CLDH.

2.1. The main duties and responsibilities are:

●Update the Finance and Procurement Manual of the organization
● Evaluate the compliance procedures of the organization and suggest modifications accordingly
● Design easy to read charts that explains the procurement process to staff
● Set a finance strategy of the organization for the upcoming 5 years
● Develop the provisional and operational budget of the organization
● Oversee the financial operations of the organization and ensure timely and accurate financial reports and practices including cash management, payroll,financial disbursements, ledgers.
● Manage financial control, prepare and analyze budgets, develop financial reports, and make recommendations to the organization on budget expenditures.
● Monitor expenditures to ensure that program funds are utilized appropriately by the close of the fiscal year.
● Provide orientation and training to the organization staff on cost-effective management and procurement.
● Provide financial inputs for proposal development, project management, human resource management and policies, logistics, travel and other areas of administration.
● Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems, making use of current system;
● Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs;
● Establish tables of accounts and assign entries to proper accounts;
● Process transactions in the organization’s finance system

2.2.Working relationships:

The Finance & Compliance will work closely with all CLDH team members on a daily basis.

2.3. Values and Ethics:

The candidate should have a high level of integrity, accountability, and punctuality and show a high level of commitment. He/she should also demonstrate and be exemplary in portraying CLDH values and ethics as well as being a good team player.