Major Responsibilities
Strategic Planning & Analysis
- Provides financial information that supports the CD and
SMT in making business decisions in line with IRC and Regional & 2
- Provides strategic analysis on the overall financial
health of the country program to the CD and SMT.
- Contributes actively and offers feedback in the
development of Country Programs Strategic Annual Plan.
Controllership
- Ensures compliance with IRC and donor policies and
procedures within the country, leading all aspects of in-country
practices.
- Develops in-country finance procedures to complement
global policies as needed.
- Reviews financial activities closely and shares insights
with the Country Director on the financial performance of the office,
issues with internal controls, or financial management.
- Ensures timely completion of monthly financial reports.
- Ensure timely implementation of internal and external
audit recommendations related to the Finance Department.
- Manages activities and schedules of the finance
department to meet the financial reporting requirements and timeframes set
by headquarters and donors.
- Identifies reporting format requirements and develops
formats to facilitate the management of country operations and grant
expenditures.
- Lead the preparation and approval of all donors’
financial reports, ensuring compliance with accounting, legal, and
contractual requirements, with review by the CD and Regional Controller
prior to submission.
- Conducts regular internal control reviews of operations
in the country.
- Facilitates external, internal, donor, or government
audits.
- Oversees the protection of the country’s assets (cash,
inventory, fixed assets) through the enforcement of internal control
policies and procedures.
- Stays updated on local government requirements related
to finance, ensuring adherence to
- tax and other legal obligations.
- Serves as the primary liaison with IRC HQ on all
finance, accounting, grant budget management, and cash management.
Treasury
- Provides supervision for all country program bank
relationships and activities related to bank accounts, including the
negotiation of fees, interest rates, and currency exchange rates.
- Oversees the review and approval of all monthly bank
account and cash reconciliations in Kyriba system.
- Maintains up-to-date and accurate cash forecasts to
effectively plan for future spending, including commitments that entail
future spending obligations for the IRC.
- Ensures the maintenance of appropriate balances to
support grant implementation and regular withdrawal of cash held at
headquarters.
- Ensures the development and implementation of a plan to
minimize the country’s foreign exchange exposure to currency gains and
losses.
- Supervises the collection of contractual and other
receivables.
Budget/Forecast
- Oversees the preparation and revision of grant proposal
budgets and finance reports; supports programs by offering guidance on
costing and contributing to the creation of budgets for submission.
- Prepares and maintains the country’s annual operating
budget, ensuring adequate coverage for in-country operational expenses and
regularly updating the budget.
- Presents and facilitates the review of actual budget
expenditures with the CD and program managers.
People Management
- Establishes a matrix outlining roles and
responsibilities within the finance department, ensuring that staff job
descriptions are current. Provide guidance and supervision to the finance
team to discuss job expectations, set objectives, and provide appropriate
and timely feedback on the performance of direct reports.
- Recruits and retains qualified personnel capable of
carrying out finance-related tasks.
- Ensures that comprehensive and meaningful performance
reviews are completed annually and implements career planning and
development plans for all finance staff.
- Designs and implements a training program specifically
tailored to improve the skills of the country’s finance staff.
- Provides oversight for finance training and technical
support to non-finance staff, aiming to improve their proficiencies in
accounting, reporting, and internal control.
- Create an inclusive team climate focused on the
achievement of team and individual results, and that emphasizes the
importance of mutual respect, trust, listening, ownership, learning,
productivity, accountability, and openness.
- Adhere to IRC’s performance management system, providing
regular, timely, and thoughtful coaching, feedback, performance
assessment, and professional development for all direct reports, while
making sure that they do the same for their direct reports.
- Hold high-quality meetings with each direct report on a
regular and predictable basis, focusing equally on interpersonal exchange,
as well as work.
- Promote and monitor staff care and well-being and ensure
to create systems and practices where work supports life and continuously
role model such practices.
Key Working Relationships:
- Position Reports to: Country Director and the Regional
Finance Director-EA
- Position directly supervises: Senior Finance Managers,
Finance Coordinator, Finance Analyst
- Other Internal and/or external contacts: Country
Director and Country Management Colleagues, Local and HQS Finance teams.
Job Requirements
- Master’s degree in accounting, Business Administration,
Commerce or Finance required and recognized professional certificate in
accounting such as CPA.
- Extensive experience working in development or
humanitarian response, including proven ability to live and work in the
relevant field in developing and transitioning countries.
- Minimum of five years of managerial experience in
finance.
- Requires extensive experience in working with
computerized accounting systems, standard spreadsheet, and database
programs (Integra).
- Good written and verbal skills in the English language
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- Must be comfortable in being a proactive member of the
senior management team. Must have a proven track-record of proactively
identifying and communicating potential problems and proposing solutions.
- Requires the ability to function effectively in a
complex work environment, setting appropriate priorities, and handling
competing demands and pressure.
- Ability to carry out responsibilities independently with
minimal technical support.
- Must have excellent interpersonal communication skills
and professional patience and be able to interact, partner and thrive in a
diverse environment.
- Committed to staff training and development and
effective at facilitation.
How To Apply
