Job at Christian Aid for a Programme Finance Officer in Nigeria
Christian Aid (CA) is a UK-based international NGO, partnering with
others to end poverty in Africa. At the heart of this vision is the
transformation of the lives of people who live in poverty,
empowering
them to have a brighter future. Christian Aid works in more than 30
countries and has been operating in Nigeria since 2003. The Nigeria
Country programme focuses on Community Health and HIV, Accountable
Governance including humanitarian response and Gender.
Christian Aid is recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Programme Finance Officer
Ref No: 0870
Location: Anamabra, Awka, Nigeria
Type of Contract: Fixed Term
Contracted Hours: 35
Length of Contract: 1 Year 7 Months
Role Definition
Role purpose:
- To be responsible for working with partner organizations to assist them in financial management.
- Oversee partners’ financial reporting, budgeting, auditing and
compliance that relate to partner organizations, in line with Christian
Aid’s procedures and policies.
- To build the financial management capacity of local partner organization through training and support.
- To improve the capacity of Christian Aid programme staff to
understand both Christian Aid's and institutional donors' financial
policies and procedures.
Role Context
- This role works within the Nigeria Country Programme and is Managed by the Finance Manager.
- It is responsible for managing all aspects of the programme
finance function, which will include financial records, financial
reports, budgets, donor funds, internal and external audits and
providing financial support to Christian Aid partner staff.
- This role will also manage partner financial capacity and the compliance function.
Key Outcomes:
- In collaboration with other colleagues, budgets are prepared and
monitored for partners and relevant institutional donor funded
programmes.
- Partners meeting financial reporting requirements placed on them by Christian Aid.
- Partners meeting financial reporting requirements placed on them by institutional donors.
- Good relationships with partners are maintained through positive communication.
- Financial capacity building delivered to partners to include procurement, reporting, compliance and how to deliver training.
- Partners comply with Christian Aid's and institutional donors' policies and procedures.
Role Requirements
Relationships:
External:
- The role holder will have contact with partners, external auditors and other relevant stakeholders
Internal:
- The role is lined managed by the Finance Manager. This role will
have contact with other members of the local finance team, local
programme staff,local auditors, the internal audit team, compliance team
and the international finance team as well as with the local partners
Decision making:
- This role is expected to work in close collaboration with the
Finance Manager and/or country manager to deliver financial information
to Christian Aid and/or donors. Able to make decisions around the
necessary capacity building for partners and Christian Aid staff in
relation to programmatic finance skills.
Analytical skills:
- Ability to apply logical thinking and common sense to gathering
and analysing information, designing and testing solutions to problems,
but also carrying out some routine work.
Developing self and others:
- Continuously look for opportunities for self-development. Give
and receive honest and open feedback in a timely manner. Will advise
others in some technical financial matters.
Person Specification
Applied skills/knowledge and expertise:
Essential:
- The role holder will be qualified to at least Degree level (or
equivalent) and a qualified member of a recognised accounting
organisation
- Considerable experience in delivering financial training using different methodologies.
- Experience with using excel and word processing packages and other account reporting tools.
- Knowledge of financial standards required by donors, local financial standards and legal framework
- Experience of working with financial accounting procedures of
writing and reviewing financial reports, creating and monitoring budgets
and working with compliance regulations.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of institutional donor requirements.
- Experience of using computerised financial reporting tools such as SUN & QA Executive
- Fully qualified IFAC accountant and training related to qualification
- Knowledge of local partners/NGOs and development.
- Experience of dealing with institutional donor (e.g. DFID) fund accounting.
IT competency required:
Competency profile
LEVEL 2: You are expected to be able to:
- Build partnerships: Take on different work when necessary to
achieve a team or organisational goal. Actively consult with others to
ensure you understand their needs or goals. Listen to and take on board
fresh perspectives and views even if you initially disagree with them.
Maintain on-going relationships with individuals and contacts through
networks, based on mutual rapport and respect.
- Deliver results: Prioritise, plan and monitor own work to meet
own and team deliverables to agreed performance or quality standards.
Acknowledge others’ priorities whilst being prepared to say “no” if
there are genuine reasons why their needs cannot be met. Use logical
processes and relevant tools and techniques to report on information or
analyse options. Make timely and considered recommendations or decisions
based on analysis of available data, information and evidence.
- Realise potential: Evaluate your own work and actively address
gaps in knowledge and skills, without prompting. Recognise how you react
to feedback and manage reactions positively, acting on specific
feedback from others. Share your knowledge where it will help others to
be more effective.
- Provide instruction, constructive feedback and guidance to others to help them learn.
- Strive for improvement: Constructively challenge existing
practice. Seek better ways of doing things, taking into account the
possible implications. Make positive suggestions on a way forward when
faced with challenges even if these fall outside own scope of work. Look
inside and outside Christian Aid for new ideas and evaluate them for
own work.
- Communicate effectively: Make complex things simple for the
benefit of others. Actively listen and question to check your
understanding and draw out others when they are not expressing
themselves clearly or seem to be holding back. Be sensitive to what
others may be feeling, based on what they say, how they say it and their
non-verbal behavior, adapting your style and approach to fit. Address
difficult issues when they arise, being honest and open.
- Steward resources: Implement ways to reduce the inefficient use
of resources or pass the ideas on to someone who can make them happen.
Estimate the resources needed to achieve your own work plans or
objectives and to deliver them in the most efficient and cost effective
way. Set and communicate realistic timelines for achieving tasks,
working out how best to adapt as priorities change or unforeseen
circumstances arise.
Further Details
- Further details of specific tasks and duties will be agreed with
the line manager as part of the performance agreement. Any reasonable
duty may be assigned that is consistent with the nature of the job and
its level of responsibility.
- You will be expected to abide bythe Code of Conduct, policies
and procedures within Christian Aid which may be updated from time to
time.
- You must be in sympathy with the aims, beliefs and values of
Christian Aid as it seeks to work on relief, development and advocacy for
poverty eradication.
- This role profile is not prescriptive; it merely outlines the
key behaviours the role-holder requires to be successful in the role;
the key behaviours and responsibilities are subject to change. Any
changes will be made in consultation with the role-holder.
Remuneration
N6,119,266.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply
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Application Deadline 10th August, 2016.