Director of Finance at Society for Family Health (SFH)

The Director of Finance will be the lead expert for project financial management as well as for administrative, human resource and logistics management. S/he will be responsible for overseeing project accounting and finance/budget management including cash flow management, timely donor financial reporting such cash balance report, tax report, quarterly financial report, PUDR report and annual financial report using approved templates. S/he will be responsible for managing GFA review processes as well as internal and external audit review exercises in compliance with donor financial and accounting rules and regulations.

Qualifications/Experience:

• A minimum of a master’s degree and a bachelor’s level degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, or another relevant field is required.
• NGO Experience and Chartered accountants’ status in a professional body such as ACCA, CPA or ICAN
• At least 10+ years of relevant work experience managing, in increasing roles of responsibility broad nonprofit financial and operations management.
• 5 + years of experience as lead or deputy lead for finance and operations on a large USAID-funded project.
• Demonstrated experience with coordinating, analysing and reporting financial performance, financial forecasting, and budget variance analysis.
• Demonstrated experience managing operations, including managing people and performance
• The successful candidate will be a person of integrity with excellent analytical, interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills; a thorough understanding of USAID financial guidelines and rules, international accounting standards and Nigerian tax and fiscal policies. Hands-on experience using an ERP and business management MIS with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Requires a high level of creativity and innovation and the ability to maintain operational efficiency in a fast-paced work environment.