About the role
To support the finance manager in ensuring that financial standards are met for the country programme including reporting, office and donor audits, partner financial monitoring and capacity building. Oversee partners’ financial reporting, budgeting, auditing and compliance to agreed due diligence that relate to partner organizations, in line with Christian Aid’s procedures and policies. To build the financial and budget management capacity of local partner organization through training and support. To improve the capacity of Christian Aid programme staff to understand and uphold both Christian Aid’s and institutional donors’ financial policies and procedures and proactively manage contracts and risk within respective projects and programmes
Key outcomes
- In collaboration with other colleagues, budgets are prepared and monitored for partners and other relevant institutional donor funded programmes.
- Financial capacity building is delivered to programme staff and partners to include procurement, reporting and compliance.
- Christian Aid and donor financial policies and procedures are complied with and issues arising from non-compliance delt with swiftly and efficiently.
- Budget variance analysis and management is a standard practice in country programme.
- Internal, external and donor audits are supported and any actions delt with.
- Partners comply with Christian Aid and Institutional donors’ policies and procedures.
- Partners meeting financial reporting requirements placed on them by Christian Aid.
- Partners meeting financial reporting requirements placed on them by institutional donors.
About you
We are looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Finance Officer to join our team. You are someone with a strong background in financial management, capable of overseeing financial processes with precision and efficiency. You have experience in preparing accurate financial reports, managing budgets, and performing detailed financial analysis to guide strategic decisions with a proven track record of maintaining accuracy and compliance in financial practice.
Your proficiency with financial software and tools, alongside your ability to adapt to new systems, ensures that you can maintain up-to-date records and optimize financiais workflows. You are well-versed in balancing multiple tasks, working under tight deadlines, and handling confidential information with the utmost discretion.
Competency questions
As part of your application you will be asked to demonstrate your suitability by giving answers to the following questions:
Steward Resources
Please give us an example of a time when you found ways to achieve more effective outcomes by using existing resources in a new or different way
- What was the context?
- What was your task?
- What action(s) did you take?
- How successful were you? What was the impact of your actions?
Deliver Results
Please give us an example of a time when you had to say no to another colleague or team because of other priorities while acknowledging their needs
- What was the situation? What were the competing priorities?
- What was your task?
- What action(s) did you take? What was the effect of you saying no?
- What was the outcome(s)? What did you learn from the experience?
Strive for Improvement
3. Describe a time when you made positive suggestions for a way forward despite being faced by challenges from others
- What was the context? What was your idea? Why did other challenge it?
- Where did you fit in? What was your role?
- What action(s) did you take? Why?
- What was the result? Were you successful? If so, how did you know?
