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Finance Officer – DID at Sightsavers

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Posted 8 months ago

Job Title: Finance Officer – DID

Overview

Sightsavers is looking for a Finance Officer – Disability Inclusive Development (DID) to deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met.

Salary: Local terms and conditions apply

Location: Sightsavers Country Office in Nairobi, Kenya or Abuja, Nigeria

Contract:15-month Fixed-Term Contract from January 2025

Hours: This is a full-time role

Responsibilities

The Finance Officer – Disability Inclusive Development (DID) will deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met. Key duties will include:

  •  To develop, review and amend coordinating and implementing consortium partner contracts and budgets to enable project delivery with the guidance of the Head of Inclusive Futures
  •  Coordinate the process for timely and accurate donor financial submissions including core monthly financial expenditure reports, forecasts and ad hoc requests.
  •  Work with the Head of Finance to develop tools to improve financial analysis throughout the project, for instance Power-BI dashboards, using data linked from the programme financial database (MyCLAIMS)
  •  Support the preparation of financial reports and forecasts for the donor.
  •  Deliver the day-to-day finance and administration tasks on the DID project including partner transfers, cost recovery, fund management, procurement, manage the assets register.

Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role you will need:

  •  An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities
  •  Experience of institutional donor or large-scale contract management. In particular experience of FCDO funding would be useful.
  •  Excellent numerical skills edcx9pz B2NcpE
  •  Finance and Accounting experience
  •  High proficiency with Excel (pivot tables) is required and experience of a computer-based accounting system
  •  Strong attention to detail when needed, with a willingness to follow issues through to resolution.
  •  Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritise work in a high-pressure environment working to competing deadlines
  •  Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  •  Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
  •  Experience of conducting/participating in finance workshops (desirable)
  •  Willingness to continuously develop skills and knowledge to remain current with donor funding developments. (desirable)
  •  Experience and awareness/understanding of international development context and humanitarian sector (desirable)
  •  Able to travel for up to 4 weeks per year
  •  Desire to follow up an accounting professional certification (i.e. ACCA or CIMA)

Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit. This is a varied role, please read the full job description for further details

Next Steps

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please complete an application via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying. We anticipate that remote interviews will take place during week commencing 2 December 2024 and the evaluation process will include a role-speciifc task to be completed by shortlisted candidates in advance of this. We would like the successful applicant to be in post in January 2025

As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is 24/November/2024. Therefore, qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Website:

Official Job Website: https://www.sightsavers.org/jobs/

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Job CategoryAccounting / Accountant / Auditing / Tax / Finance Jobs, Finance Jobs

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