Regional Finance and Operations Director

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Street Child Full time
Job Title: Senior Regional Finance Manager

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Senior Regional Finance Manager to join our team at Street Child. As a key member of our finance team, you will be responsible for providing financial management support to our Great Lakes and Central Africa Region programs, focusing on Street Child Programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Key Responsibilities:

  • Financial Management:
    • Supervise the establishment and maintenance of country financial systems in line with Street Child's Financial Policy and Procedures, donor, and local legislation requirements.
    • Develop and update quarterly the country's Master Budget to ensure all funding gaps are covered.
    • Provide strong leadership to the Finance and Admin team in all offices, ensuring competent and motivated staff are hired and retained.
    • Provide financial advice to budget holders and local partners, ensuring adequate support is provided to the program and alignment of resource allocations with organizational priorities at the budgeting and implementation stages.
    • Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant monthly accounting closure for all Street Child field offices and perform bank reconciliation as appropriate.
    • Produce Budget Vs. Actuals for internal use by the country team and budget holders on a monthly basis.
    • Oversee all financial and logistical requests made by the technical team, ensuring they are in line with Street Child guidelines.
    • Lead on applying Street Child's anti-fraud and anti-corruption policy, ensuring all DRC staff understand and adhere to it.
    • Ensure regular financial and operational checks are performed for each local partner involved in Street Child project implementation.
    • Elaborate, review, and update Finance Standard Operating Procedures for Street Child DRC and across the Central and Great Lakes region as required.
    • Conduct spot checks on transactions and maintain transparency and accountability within finance and administration.
    • Build financial management capacity for local partners in the region.
  • Grant Management and Budget Proposal:
    • Collaborate with other managers during proposal development, leading on costing in proposal writing.
    • Produce grant financial reports for donors in their formats.
    • Co-lead monthly grants review meetings involving all active partners.
    • Manage budget review, cost extension, realignment, and alert on any potential risk.
    • Ensure appropriate measures are taken to address audit findings and recommendations associated with all grants.
    • Conduct grant management training for local partners and provide orientation on finance matters and tools to non-finance staff.
  • Operations Oversight:
    • Lead all aspects of HR, administration, procurement, and logistics in the region.
    • Adequately manage internal and external HR and admin risks, highlighting and resolving relevant issues with national institutions.
    • Maintain daily responsibility for local staff issues, including contracts, payroll, job descriptions, salary scales, leave, and benefits.
    • Facilitate frequent staff meetings and update staff on new Street Child guidelines, regulations, etc.
    • Lead the outsourcing of some services, such as staff medical insurance, legal issues, and adherence to national labour laws, taxation systems, and rules.
    • Lead in running procurement, ensuring value for money and overseeing all contracts with suppliers.
    • Ensure all necessary agreements, permits, and licenses for Street Child operations in DRC are in place and updated on national rules and regulations.
    • Lead staff adherence to all processes and ensure strict and contextualized application across the DRC program.
    • Ensure proper asset management by initiating tools and control systems, including tagging.

Person Specification:

Attributes:

  • Educated to degree level or higher.
  • Recognised Accountancy Qualification.
  • Degree in International Business Administration, finance, or related field; or attendance at specific relevant training courses.

Experience and Knowledge:

  • 6 years post-qualification experience.
  • Experience of implementing internal controls and finance procedures.
  • Experience of managing multi-donor grants and good knowledge of donor compliance rules and requirements – in particular working with ECHO, BHA, EU, SIDA, NMFA, FCDO, USAID, UNICEF, ECW, WFP, etc.
  • Knowledge of development issues and concepts.

Skills and Abilities:

  • Extensive knowledge of finance and logistics policy within non-governmental organizations.
  • Knowledge of computer applications and accounting software.
  • Excellent relationship building skills, with an ability to skilfully navigate both national and international stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of French, Swahili, or other relevant local languages.

Other:

  • Strong interpersonal, management, and team work skills.
  • Ability to influence change in teams not directly managed.
  • A self-starter, capable of working independently and flexibly to a high level.
  • Fluent English – written and spoken.
  • Good communication and staff training/capacity building skills.

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