The ERP Senior Grant and Finance Manager will provide the primary financial and grant management inputs into emergency response programmes, and ongoing support to develop best practice emergency financial management procedures and processes within the Emergencies and Finance Departments.
The role has three main aspects to it:
• Lead the finance and grant team in responding to Save the Children responses to emergencies.
• Coaching finance and none finance ERPs in their financial professional development and contributing to the development and advancement of policy and procedures.
• Providing short term interim financial management and/or capacity building support to ongoing emergency or country/regional programmes.
Key accountabilities
Emergencies Responses: Lead the finance and grant team in responding to Save the Children responses to emergencies:
• Provide strategic finance support to the Response Manager including Master budget development and monitoring and advice on how to best to utilise a programme’s funding portfolio.
• Ensure that at all stage of the response the control framework of the operation is consistent with the situation and ensure that necessary risks are taken knowingly with appropriate mitigating actions.
• Provide a high standard of financial accounting ensuring compliance to local statutory law and donors regulations and consistent with and SCUK accounting policies, procedures and tools.
• Ensure preparation of donor financial reports and proposal budgets. Ensure all donor requirements are complied with and reports are prepared on time with proper audit trial.
• Depending on the presence or not of a dedicated Grant Manager into the response take the lead on the donors coordination and in ensuring that key processes are in place to ensure that proposals, formats, eligibility, compliance, grant management system, reporting, M&E and quality assurance receive optimum attention at the various stages of the life cycle of grants with a view of securing donor satisfaction.
• Recruit, train and manage finance staff and/or work closely with existing country finance staff & ensure a good handover at end of mission
• Ensure that all new staffs into the response are adequately inducted in SCUK system and donors compliance requirements consistently with their various roles.
• Ensure that SCUK’s commitment to improving quality and accountability in humanitarian work is upheld, through reference to the Sphere Project Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards, the NGO Code of Conduct, and other relevant tools.
• Comply with all relevant SCUK policies and procedures with respect to child protection, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
ERPs Capacity Building: Coaching finance and none finance ERPs in their financial professional development and contributing to the development and advancement of policy and procedures.
• Support the Head of Emergencies Finance and Grant Management to strengthen the ERP Finance and Grant Managers expertise through induction and on the job coaching.
• Support the HQ Emergencies Grant and Finance team to strengthen the none-finance ERP staff knowledge and capacity to manage finance and grants by providing, induction, training and coaching consistent with their various roles and responsibilities.
• Contribute to ongoing finance policy revisions and maintain and continue the ongoing development of the Finance Department’s emergencies finance toolkit.
Support to ongoing emergency or country/regional programmes:
• Provide interim support to a country or regional programme which lacks finance resources in various roles (Country Finance and/or Grant Manager, Regional Finance Manager, audit officer)
• Upon countries or region request, provide country programme finance and none-finance staff with finance induction, training and coaching into SCUK policies, procedures and tools and on major grants compliance issues.
Person specification
Essential
• Qualified professional accountant (internationally recognised qualification, practical experience equivalent will be considered) with significant post qualification accounting experience.
• Substantial experience, including first phase responses, with NGOs in an international emergency environment or in fragile states with increasing responsibilities including a proven experience of establishing and running a field finance office.
• Knowledge of the requirements and experience managing grants from the major emergency donors including budgeting, eligibility issues, compliance management, and reporting.
• Experience of engaging with donors at country strategy levels
• Proven experience in staff management, supervision. Strong coaching skills and capacity building experience.
• Computer proficient: i.e. Advanced Excel, advanced with accounting packages (SUN would be a+) and good command of the Microsoft Office pack.
• Excellent personal organisational skills, including priority management and ability to meet deadlines and to work under pressure in varying physical conditions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including cultural sensitivity and ability to work in a team
• Willingness to travel extensively and at short notice and to work in extremely demanding circumstances in an uncertain security setting.
• Substantial initiative and flexibility with a willingness to undertake both extraordinary and more routine activities as required.
• Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles.
• Good level of spoken and written English
• Good level in at least one other language, preferably French, Spanish, Portuguese or Arabic
Desirable
• Experience with Save the Children financial Policies, procedures and systems and overseas accounting software (including SUN and FBS).
• Experience of Project Management, M&E Management or Funding Coordination would be a appreciated plus
How to apply
To apply for the specified position please visit http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/jobs.htm (Ref. 6209)
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