Responsibilities:
Financial management:
- Ensure
or QA correct set up of new contracts in Dynamics – Support – monitor
- Provide
support to compliance checks on financial management systems and
procedures of downstream partners (e.g. core subcontractors and local
implementing partners)
- Review
project invoices prepared by Project Manager to ensure accuracy and
compliance before submission to client
- Review
Commercial Contract Internal Budgets against financial data in Dynamics
and assess status of financial Key Performance Indicators to inform the
resource committee
- Work
with relevant staff in DRC to develop relevant BI reports to enable
monitoring of the commercial portfolio and Commercial Risk Contingency
Fund
- Support
with commercial contract audits as required
- Provide
advice to the Head of Section on LE profit share proposals to ensure
informed HQ approvals
Business Development:
Support relevant LEs with the development and review of
commercially viable and compliant financial proposals
Policy guidance:
- Support
the maintenance and refinement of DRC’s Standard Operating Procedures
(SOPs) for commercial contract delivery and financial management
- Support
the development and review of relevant DRC Dynamics user manuals related
to commercial contract set-up, implementation and closedown
- Support
in developing Profit Policy
Fund Management:
- Support
the monitoring of Fund Management cash flow to ensure compliant and timely
donor inflows and grantee outflows
- Help
identify any existing challenges in Dynamics for the efficient management
of fund management grants/contracts and work with relevant colleagues to
develop solutions
- Work
with Business Process Owners to recommend relevant system changes needed
for DRC Dynamics and advocate for their adoption by the governance board.
Experience and technical competencies:
- Knowledge
and capacity in financial process and procedures – preferably at an
oversight level
- At
least 5 years’ experience of working within the development/humanitarian
sector preferably with service contracts
- Understanding
of various contract modalities and donors that DRC works with
- Good
interpersonal and intercultural skills with the ability to work with and
train people of different capacities and cultures.
- Proficient
in spoken and written English and French
- Experience
working with commercial contracting in the humanitarian sector or private
sector.
- Experience
of effective stakeholder engagement related to policy development.
- Experience
of ERP software preferably MS Dynamics
Education:
Master’s degree in Economics, Financial Management, Business
Management, or similar
How to Apply
