About the role
Reporting in to the Restricted
Funding Manager, the Restricted
Finance Officer provides financial
capacity to the Multi-Country Cluster (MCC), being proactive in supporting
restricted funded programming contracts with donors and work funded through
internal restricted funding streams.
The post holder collaborates
across the MCC to build trust and drive financial management processes that
align with organisational goals and values and improve impact.
The role actively participates in learning and reflection spaces convened with partners and key stakeholders, to build consensus with partners and communities about priorities for funding, so that programmes only bid for appropriate funding which aligns with strategy.
Some of the main responsibilities of of the Restricted
Finance Officer include:
- Proactively ensure effective financial
management and compliance across all donor contracts within the MCC
restricted income portfolio, fostering collaboration and trust among MCC
colleagues.
- Lead financial reporting on donor-funded
contracts, promoting transparency and decision-making that improves
impact.
- Oversee financial assurance and escalate
issues as needed to MCC senior management, advising on where to align
resource allocation with high-impact initiatives to maximise outcomes.
- Build and maintain strong relationships
(in collaboration with MCC staff) with external donor contacts in
financial and compliance roles, promoting openness and identifying areas
of shared goals.
- Ensure that specific financial and
procurement compliance obligations are monitored and met across the
contract portfolio (e.g. through tracking reporting requirements,
supporting with ‘flex’ plans, and being a member of relevant procurement
committees).
- Monitor and regularly review donor-funded
programme budgets and appeal funds to ensure fit with new resourcing
strategy and model, taking corrective action as needed in agreement with
the Restricted Funding Manager to drive better results.
- Understand and meet specific financial
and procurement compliance obligations across the MCC contract portfolio,
ensuring all documentation is accurately logged on iPIMS.
- Provide support for the donor portfolio
risk management framework, critically assessing challenges and adapting
work to align with organisational values and goals and the new partnership
led model.
- Input into the MCC restricted funding
contract portfolio dashboard, supporting onboarding and quality assurance
of new programmes by collaborating across divisions and with partners.
- Promote Christian Aid’s work and develop
business opportunities by fostering positive relationships and networks
with INGO HQ’s, private sector partners, knowledge partners, and
institutional donors
About you
Qualifications
Essential:
- Degree or equivalent qualification in a
relevant discipline, Finance, Economics, Business International Relation,
or Social Sciences.
- Fluent in English (both written and
spoken).
- Significant experience and track record
as Finance Officer working to support multi-million dollar/pound
programmes.
- Significant experience of
multi-million-pound programme collaborative budget development, monitoring
and management.
- Understanding donor compliance
requirements
- Substantial experience of donor and
partner due-diligence processes.
- Substantial experience of budgeting and
financial monitoring and reporting for programmes funded by major
institutional donors
(Government, Private Sector and Foundations). - Detailed understanding of Project
Management monitoring and donor reporting, from a decolonised and
localised approach.
- Detailed understanding of financial
principles and processes.
- Detailed understanding of financial
systems.
- Highly developed understanding of
financial controls and procedures and highly numerate.
- Developed decision making skills
including working under high pressure.
- Developed and proven negotiation and
collaborative working skills.
- Developed organisational planning and
prioritisation skills.
- Developed communication and networking
skills for engagement, relationship building at all levels.
- Highly developed analytical and financial
acumen.
How to Apply
