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  • Posted: Oct 7, 2020
    Deadline: Oct 19, 2020
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    Street Child is a UK charity, established in 2008, that aims to create educational opportunity for some of the world's most vulnerable children Street Child began its work in Sierra Leone in 2008 working with a small number of street children, eight years later we have helped to transform the lives of more than 50,000 children across Sierra Leone, Liberia a...
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    Programme Finance Manager

    Principle Location: Flexible with up to 70% travel to Africa, with a focus on West Africa (Including but not limited to: Nigeria, Siere Leone and Cameroon). This role could be based in any location with transport links to west africa.
    Job Type: Permanent, Full-time
    Report to: Africa Finance Manager
    Hours: 37.5 hours per week

    Overview

    • Street Child is looking for an experienced professional to lead on financial support across our West Africa programmes portfolio, including Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cameroon.
    • You will be responsible for providing financial support to our programmes and partners in the region to support the development and implementation of robust financial management and reporting systems, and assessing and strengthening the control environment, financial management, grant management, and reporting.
    • You will have proven interpersonal, management and team working skills with experience of managing multi donor grants and a strong knowledge of finance policy within non-governmental organisations.
    • This role would preferably, but not essentially, be based in the region. It will involve significant travel throughout the region.

    Key Responsibilities
    Strengthening the control environment, financial management, grant management, and reporting in Africa countries (40%):

    • Work with - either in person or remotely -  with various countries or partners to identify areas of improvement in individual and team performance and devise with them an action plan to address these areas.
    • Monitor and assess the performance of countries and partners in meeting their action plans and recommend steps where plans are not being met.
    • Supporting each African country come up with an annual budget, working with the Africa Finance Manager to develop consistent templates to use in each template
    • Supporting in developing Financial management tools for each country
    • Review and seek approval from Head of Africa Programmes and Africa Finance manager for all donor proposal budgets before they are submitted to donors
    • Review and seek approval from Head of Africa Programmes and Africa Finance manager for all donor reports before they are submitted to donors
    • Ensure all countries and partners follow the financial guidance note
    • Ensure all countries and partners submit monthly requisitions for each month
    • Ensure all countries and partners submit monthly reports for each Month

    Build financial management capacity for both Street Child and partners in Africa (30%):

    • Have regular meetings with finance staff for Street Child branches/affiliates, at least monthly
    • Regularly advise and provide support to the SC countries as need arises
    • Work alongside partner staff to ensure proper financial systems are in place and appropriate financial controls are implemented and operating effectively.
    • Work with the Africa Finance Manager to recommend and support the implementation of new financial controls and procedures as required. Work with partners to develop their use of their accounting software (mainly QuickBooks)
    • Ensure that partners can produce reports to donors (mainly Street Child) as required, ensuring that donor expenditure is recorded accurately & finance reports are of high quality with full supporting transaction listings reconciled to the finance system and delivered to deadlines in accordance donor requirements

    Work with Street Child HQ in the UK to ensure proper systems, policies and procedures are in place to properly manage its operations in Africa (15%):

    • Support Street Child HQ in the roll-out of new accounting software to Street Child branches.
    • Provide timely reports to Africa Finance Manager for consolidated reporting to Street Child UK for Street Child’s group Management Accounts
    • Ensure appropriate bank & cash management procedures are in place and operating effectively, including bank reconciliations for all accounts, cash counts and cash transfers to field sites
    • Responsible for over-seeing in-country external audits to ensure that they meet their own external reporting requirements and deliver information required to the external auditors of Street Child HQ as required
    • Review and approve Monthly cash requests from countries and partners for cash transfers

    Ensure the effective and efficient use of all Street Child resources, best value for money and safety and security of assets in Africa (15%):

    • Ensure compliance with accounting procedures and policies and actively monitor internal controls to minimize risk to the organization
    • Identify potential high-risk financial situations and partnerships and work collaboratively to mitigate these.
    • Regular financial reviews and sport checks
    • Monthly financial reports review and queries
    • Review audit reports for all countries and partners
    • Perform internal audits as required from time to time by HQ, or work with HQ to secure and oversee internal audits undertaken on branches and partners

    Person Specification
    Education / Qualifications:

    Essential:

    • Educated to Bachelor degree level or higher
    • Recognised Accountancy Qualification

    Desirable:

    • Degree in International Business Administration, finance or related field; or attendance at specific relevant training courses

    Experience and Knowledge:
    Essential:

    • 3 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 FCDO (formerly DfID), UN, EU and USAID

    Desirable:

    • Knowledge of development issues and concepts

    Skills and Abilities
    Essential:

    • Extensive knowledge of finance and logistics policy within non-governmental organisations
    • Knowledge of computer applications and software finance packages – in particular Aqilla or other “mid-tier” finance system

    Desirable:

    • System design and implementation of finance software packages

    Other:
    Essential:

    • Strong interpersonal, management and team working 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

    Desirable:

    • Good communication and staff training/capacity building skills

    Salary

    • $45,000 - $55,000 per year

    Benefits:

    • Attractive benefits are included - details available on request. Please note that this role is unaccompanied and not suitable for candidates looking for a family posting.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover letter to: amy.ditton@street-child.org using the "Job Title" as the subject of the email.

    Important Notice

    • Your cover letter should include why you want this role and why you are a suitable candidate, outlining relevant experience. We will review applications as they are received and reserve the right to bring forward the closing date.
    • Our interview process will involve a written assessment, followed by two interviews. Pre-employment checks will be required as part of our recruitment process in line with our Safeguarding Policy.
    • Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
    • Please note that this role can be based in any location with transport links to West Africa.

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