National Finance Manager

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

International Assignment (WVI – Paid via GCLA) Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Financial Planning, Budgeting and Resources Mobilization.

• Coordinate the annual departmental support cost budgeting and financial planning process, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy, operational plans, funding commitments, and approved planning assumptions.

• Consolidate and review National departmental Office, budgets, ensuring accuracy, completeness, affordability, and appropriate cost allocation.

• Monitor support cost departmental budget performance through regular budget-versus-actual analysis, identifying significant variances and ensuring timely corrective actions with budget holders.

• Strengthen cost efficiency and cost recovery, ensuring shared and support costs are appropriately allocated to projects and funding streams in line with applicable policies and donor requirements.

• Monitor funding gaps and escalate to the Finance and support services Director in a timely manner

• Ensure budgeting and forecasting data integrity, including accurate coding, funding allocations, and alignment between planning and financial reporting systems.

• Support budget proposal development when required Manage Financial Reporting, Financial Systems, and Reconciliations

• Coordinate timely and accurate monthly financial reporting in collaboration with field Finance teams, ensuring reports comply with applicable accounting standards and are reviewed, approved, and filed by the 10th of the subsequent month.

• Oversee monthly financial reconciliations, including bank accounts, budget-to-actuals, donor and Support Office funding, General Ledger accounts, and MyPBAS-to-FFR reconciliations, ensuring outstanding and long-aged items are investigated and resolved within established timelines.

• Ensure accurate and timely processing of financial transactions and adjustments, including budget journals, revenue commitments, and other financial entries, while maintaining appropriate account codes and Chart of Accounts in collaboration with the Financial Reporting Services Centre.

• Oversee financial systems governance and integrity, including R2R and P2P access, segregation of duties, data security, and provision of technical support to Finance teams.

• Ensure effective management of reimbursable donor accounts, including reconciliation of invoices to ledger, payroll, and project expenditure records, as well as timely follow-up on outstanding reimbursements and resolution of donor queries.

• Monitor partner financial balances and accountabilities, ensuring funds are correctly tagged, adequately supported, and liquidated within established timelines.

• Ensure timely monthly reconciliation and clearance of all balance sheet accounts.

• Perform regular vendor account reconciliations and ensure prompt resolution of outstanding reconciling items.

• Oversee account allocations and coding accuracy for all balance sheet accounts.

• Provide periodic aging analysis reports for balance sheet accounts and follow up with responsible stakeholders for timely resolution.

• Monitor the quality and accuracy of balance sheet records and drive continuous clean-up initiatives to maintain financial integrity.

Risk Management and Capacity Building

• Ensure effective financial controls and compliance across the National Office by enforcing organizational and donor policies, procedures, Blocked Party Screening, delegated Levels of Authority (LoA), and other financial management requirements.
• Coordinate and support internal, external, donor, and partner audits, ensuring finance-related audit findings are addressed within agreed timelines, with appropriate corrective or alternative actions implemented to strengthen identified control weaknesses.
• Lead financial risk management for the department, including maintaining and regularly reviewing the Finance Risk Register, monitoring emerging risks, implementing mitigation measures, and promoting adherence to the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework.
• Strengthen partner financial management and accountability through capacity building, appropriate financial systems and processes, financial monitoring, audit support, and timely and accurate management and reporting of grant funds.
• Strengthen financial accountability and internal controls across field operations, working closely with Finance and Operations teams to establish practical, cost-efficient financial processes appropriate to the fragile operating context.
• Ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory financial obligations, including timely and accurate tax, payroll-related, rental tax, NSIF, Gratuity annual return, and other required statutory filings.
• Ensure compliance with Labor Distribution Report (LDR) requirements and other cost allocation controls to support accurate project charging and cost recovery.
• Champion a strong culture of financial accountability, transparency, and ethical conduct, including adherence to the organization’s Zero-Tolerance to Fraud Policy and proactive prevention and escalation of financial irregularities.
• Participate in the external audit exercise for WVISS Finance Audit
• Follow up on implementation of audit recommendations.
• Ensure all audit issues picked during internal and external audits are implemented within 90 days.
• Ensure no questionable or disallowed costs are project financial audits that will take away resources from other funding streams

Cashflow Management and Disbursements

• Ensure timely and accurate payments to suppliers, staff, partners, and other stakeholders in accordance with organizational policies and procedures.

• Review payment documentation to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance prior to authorization.

• Prepare and submit monthly funding requests and cash requisitions for approval by the Finance Director and Regional Office by 18th of the following month.

• Develop and maintain monthly cash flow forecasts and liquidity plan to support operational requirements in alignment with approved cash flow forecasts and global treasury hedge requirements.

• Oversee petty cash management, including timely replenishment, periodic reviews, and surprise cash counts.

• Ensure petty cash verification certificates are prepared, reviewed, approved, and appropriately filed.

• Oversee timely receipting, banking of funds, preparation of deposit vouchers, and recording of bank charges.

• Ensure all cash and bank transactions comply with established internal controls and financial management protocols.

• Maintain adequate cash reserves to meet organizational liquidity benchmarks and operational needs-Target Low Asset Management and Reconciliation

• Oversee financial control and accounting for fixed assets, ensuring assets are accurately recorded, classified, capitalized, depreciated, transferred, and disposed of in accordance with organizational and donor requirements.

• Maintain the integrity of the Fixed Asset Register, ensuring timely reconciliation with the General Ledger and resolution of discrepancies.

• Coordinate periodic physical asset verification, working with Administration, Supply Chain, IT, and field teams to confirm existence, condition, location, ownership, and appropriate asset tagging.

• Ensure strong asset controls and accountability, including appropriate authorization for acquisition, transfer, custody, impairment, write-off, and disposal of assets.

• Ensure donor-funded assets are properly managed, including accurate identification, tracking, reporting, and compliant transfer or disposal at grant/project closure.

• Monitor asset-related financial risks, including loss, theft, damage, obsolete assets, unsupported balances, and inadequate documentation, and ensure timely corrective action.

• Support audits and compliance reviews by ensuring asset records, supporting documentation, physical verification reports, and reconciliations are complete and audit-ready.

• Provide financial oversight of asset procurement and disposal, ensuring appropriate budgeting, coding, value-for-money considerations, and accurate recognition of proceeds or gains/losses from disposals.

• Strengthen asset management capacity and compliance across Finance and operational teams through guidance, monitoring, and follow-up on identified control gaps.

People Management, Networking and Safeguarding

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight to the Finance team, including recruitment, work planning, regular team engagement, coaching, supervision, and performance management to build a high-performing, accountable, and customer-focused function.

• Lead Finance staff capacity development by assessing competency gaps, implementing annual development plans, and providing targeted coaching and technical support to strengthen performance and career growth.

• Strengthen organizational financial literacy by training and coaching Finance and non-Finance staff on financial policies, procedures, financial reports, the Field Financial Manual, and applicable donor requirements.

• Ensure effective workforce planning and staff well-being, including appropriate leave planning, workload management, and adequate coverage to maintain continuity of Finance operations.

• Support Finance transformation and continuous improvement initiatives at global, regional, and National Office levels, promoting efficient processes, systems, and ways of working.

• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with Support Offices, donors, partners, auditors, Operations, and other key stakeholders to strengthen collaboration and financial accountability.

• Promote organizational values, spiritual well-being, and safeguarding, contributing to an environment where children, adult programme participants, and staff are respected, safe, and protected, while ensuring safeguarding concerns are reported and managed in line with established procedures.

• Undertake other strategic responsibilities and special assignments delegated by the Finance & Support Services Director.

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KNOWLEDGE/QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• Holder of master’s degree is preferred

• Holder of a bachelor’s degree (Relevant disciplines preferred e.g., Accounts, Finance, Economics etc.)

• Qualified professional Accountant-Full CPA/ACCA

• Proficiency in Computer applications (Excel, Sun systems, Word etc)

• Over 5 years Corporate Accounting, of which at least (2) years must be at a managerial or leadership level

• Experience managing working large, complex, multi-sectoral grants including working with Sub grantees/Partners.

• Working within a cross-country team model.

• Team management and fragile context working experience is required.

• In-depth understanding of Project donor guidelines, GAAPs, and financial accounting in a fragile context.

• Strong analytical skills and preparation of consolidated grants finance reports.

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted