SENIOR FINANCE OFFICER

YOU WILL

• Assist in the preparation of budgets.
• Be a key point of contact for the projects on financial and accounting matters.
• Monitor and track expenditures on various budgets and provide analytical feedback and advise.
• Report any findings such as large deviations, unusual spending, different booking procedures are used by the different projects, to the Support Manager.
• Review monthly bookkeeping reports and give feedback to finance officer on use of codes, prices of goods and monitors balances on advances, and cash disparities etc.
• Align invoicing with contractual commitment.
• Overview regulation of payments such as contracts, licenses, insurances and other regular payments and make sure these are updated/paid in a timely manner.
• Supervise the finance and admin staff in the support department.
• Improve the skills of the support department staff through capacity building and on the job coaching.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE ROLE YOU NEED

• Master’s degree in Finance or Business Administration.
• CFA is an advantage.
• At least 6 years’ experience in finance, ideally for an international NGO.
• Knowledge of various donors’ financial rules and regulations.
• To be able to construct budgets in consultation with programmatic team members.
• Experience in reporting to donors in an NGO environment.
• Advanced experience in MS Office (Excel, Word, etc.).
• Fluency in English and Arabic.