Finance Officer at Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI)

General Objective

• The Finance Officer supports the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager (FPCM) in ensuring effective financial management, donor compliance, and partner capacity strengthening in line with PUI and donor requirements.
• The role provides technical support to partners, ensures accurate reporting and follow-up, and contributes to building strong financial collaboration across the consortium.

Responsibilities and Tasks
Objective 1: Finance Pre-contractual Partnership Responsibilities:

• Represent FPCM in populating the finance chapters of the partners Due Diligences and other related information.
• Support partners during the proposal stage in coordination with the FPCM.
• Support the FPCM in the production of the Sub Agreement, as well as the related amendment and ensure the accuracy of the financial information.

Objective 2: Liaison with Consortium and Partners:

• Support the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager (FPCM) in conducting partners’ spot checks (selection of accountancy documents, verification, drafting of feedback).
• Assist in collecting accurate information and ensuring partners follow audit requirements, under the guidance of the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager, in coordination with the audit focal point at mission level.
• Prepare draft monthly financial reports for review by the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager, with recommendations for partners where necessary.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of administrative and financial policies and practices when applicable.
• Support the organization of finance coordination working group meetings with partners, as well as kick-off and closing-out meetings.
• Participate in regular meetings with partners to support budget building, budget follow-up, reporting, financial problem solving, and planning. Field travel may be required for face-to-face meetings with partners.
• Ensure smooth communication flow regarding all fiscal documents and centralized information at Coordination level.
• Support the preparation of financial reporting templates for partners and follow up with reminders on reporting deadlines for all consortium members.

Objective 3: Capacity Building:

• Identify financial capacity support needs of partners and communicate these to the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager.
• Assist in developing capacity-building plans with partners’ finance teams, in collaboration with the Grants and Partnership Manager.
• Support the roll-out of existing PUI financial training tools and contribute to the development of new tools where needed.
• Support in facilitating training sessions for partners.
• Monitor and report on the evolution of partners’ financial capacity.

Objective 4: Departmental Priorities:

• Act as financial focal point for partners during pre- and post-official partnership or consortium stages, under the guidance of the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager.
• Ensure partner compliance with PUI financial procedures, donor requirements, and Nigerian laws.
• Support the monitoring of internal and donor deadlines, ensuring timely submission of financial reports.
• Contribute to qualitative financial follow-up of partners and consolidated consortium budget.
• Support the development and implementation of financial capacity-building activities for partners.

Objective 5: Fiscal Legislation Support:

• Assist in gathering information on fiscal legislation (taxes, customs duties, VAT, taxes on leasing contracts, annual declarations, etc.) and transmit it to the Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager and other concerned staff.
• Maintain updated knowledge of relevant national legislation and ensure dissemination to partners when applicable.
• Support FPCM in the development of PUI new budgets as well as NCE/MR/Top Up related to consortium (check, production and consolidation of BoQ, budget structures, budget narrative);
• Is responsible for checking and consolidating the partners’ budgets and supporting documentation.
• In close support to Finance Partnership and Consortium Manager, ensures that any costs strictly related to the proposed programs are covered,
• Assist in providing the internal and external auditor with financial documents and information for audit purposes.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor`s / Master`s Degree with 3 - 10 years work experience. 

Salary
N663,780 monthly.