Finance Officer – DID Job Sightsavers

Responsibilities

The Finance Officer – Disability Inclusive Development (DID) will deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met. Key duties will include:

  • To develop, review and amend coordinating and implementing consortium partner contracts and budgets to enable project delivery with the guidance of the Head of Inclusive Futures
  • Coordinate the process for timely and accurate donor financial submissions including core monthly financial expenditure reports, forecasts and ad hoc requests.
  • Work with the Head of Finance to develop tools to improve financial analysis throughout the project, for instance Power-BI dashboards, using data linked from the programme financial database (MyCLAIMS)
  • Support the preparation of financial reports and forecasts for the donor.
  • Deliver the day-to-day finance and administration tasks on the DID project including partner transfers, cost recovery, fund management, procurement, manage the assets register.\

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Qualifications

To succeed in this role you will need:

  • An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities
  • Experience of institutional donor or large-scale contract management. In particular experience of FCDO funding would be useful.
  • Excellent numerical skills
  • Finance and Accounting experience
  • High proficiency with Excel (pivot tables) is required and experience of a computer-based accounting system
  • Strong attention to detail when needed, with a willingness to follow issues through to resolution.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritise work in a high-pressure environment working to competing deadlines
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
  • Experience of conducting/participating in finance workshops (desirable)
  • Willingness to continuously develop skills and knowledge to remain current with donor funding developments. (desirable)
  • Experience and awareness/understanding of international development context and humanitarian sector (desirable)
  • Able to travel for up to 4 weeks per year
  • Desire to follow up an accounting professional certification (i.e. ACCA or CIMA)

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