Expériences / Formation
Job Summary
The Finance Manager works closely with the Country Director and has the responsibility to protect the financial health and integrity of the project by enforcing appropriate accounting and financial procedures and policies, providing timely and accurate financial information to enable project orientation, planning and decision, meeting the external reporting and audit requirements, orienting staff in financial management, audits and procedures compliance among other duties.
Major Responsibilities:
* Oversee the financial activities of the project, assume the financial record keeping function; control and reconcile the documentation, uploads the financial information in SUNSYSTEM.
* Set up and maintain a filing system of financial documentation.
* Give a clear picture to management of the financial position of the project with reports on donors’ budget adherence or budget variances.
* Maintain an adequate project cash flow, prepares cash requests and follows donors’ disbursements.
* Meet external reporting deadlines, prepares budgets and reports with exactness and compliance and liaises with donors and HQ when necessary.
* Maintain healthy financial practices across the project, and enforces finance working documents and trainings as needed to ensure staff adherence.
* Act as a focal point during audits, timely enforces internal and external audit recommendations.
* Review and authorise transactions within his/her threshold.
* Manage the finance department, partakes in recruitment, orientation, and training of staff with financial functions.
Mandatory Requirements:
* Exemplary command of French and English (written and spoken).
* At least 5 years of experience with a similar position in NGO sector
* Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA, ACA etc) or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Management or Economics.
* Proficiency in the use of Accounting software (preferably SUNSYSTEM), Q&A reporting tool and Excel.
* Donor/contract management experience and donor policy knowledge (preferably DG ECHO, OFDA(BHA), SDC and DFID(FCDO)).
* Ability to handle multi- donors and multi-year budgets.
* Ability to process large amount of data.
* High attention in details and accuracy.
* Ability to direct and supervise.
* Understanding of humanitarian principles and practices.
* Willingness to work in insecure countries.
Preferred Characteristics
Professional experience in Cameroon or neighboring countries
Key Personal Competencies
* Highly organised and capable to deliver work with tight deadlines
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* People management skills
* A good listener
* An effective communicator
* Excellent analytical skills
* Team player
* Able to work in a multicultural environment
* Quiet demeanour in stressful or crisis situations?
Salaire
Terms & Conditions: 12-month contract, €5000 per month salary, 4 days annual leave per month and 3 days of R&R every 3 months with €750 allowance each R&R cycle, global medical coverage (excluding USA) , USD $200,000 AD&D coverage
INSO’s Safeguarding Policy:
INSO is fully committed to safe recruitment, selection and vetting of all potential new staff, trustees and volunteers and we will ensure rigorous compliance with our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policy throughout the recruitment process. As such, the following safe recruitment practices will be applied:
* All offers of employment will be conditional on receiving at least two satisfactory professional references.
* INSO will ask candidates about significant gaps in employment history or frequent changes of employer and address.
* All essential qualifications and relevant professional accreditations and memberships will be verified.
* The successful candidate will be required to provide a valid proof of identity (passport, ID card);
* All new hires will receive an orientation in INSO’s safeguarding policy and procedures and associated documents (Code of Conduct, Whistleblowing etc.);
* All new hires will be required to sign and abide by the Code of Conduct as a condition of employment.
Comment postuler
Interested applicants are requested to send the following to
[email protected] and reference
“FINANCE MANAGER” in the subject line of the email.
The application must include:
* Cover Letter specifying how you meet the mandatory requirements, any preferred characteristics, your motivation for applying, and what you hope to bring to INSO (2 pages maximum).
* Updated CV (5 pages maximum).
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Please do not send any additional information (such as copies of certificates, copies of diplomas, other writing samples, etc.) and keep the total size of your
