Finance Manager Dutch NGO Jobs – ZOA
Job Title: Finance Manager
Organization: ZOA
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Manager General Affairs, ZOA Uganda
Salary: UGX 3,000,000 – 3,900,000
About ZOA:
ZOA is a Christian international NGO, with its head office based in the Netherlands. ZOA operates in fifteen countries on three continents. We provide relief to people affected by conflict or natural disasters. We contribute to a new perspective of hope in which people work together for a promising future in dignity and mutual trust. Together with the affected communities we work on the recovery of their livelihoods.
In Uganda we have a diverse range of multilateral and bilateral institutional donors next to the support by over 50,000 individual donors and six Dutch private foundations to implement multi-annual programs in West Nile, Acholi and Amudat (Karamoja). Our 100+ staff members find inspiration in the gospel and adhere to our common values of stewardship, human dignity, faithfulness and justice.
Job Summary: The Finance Manager should have five years of experience in financial administration. Under the supervision of the Manager General Affairs (MGA), the ZOA Finance Manager is responsible for internal financial control and general financial support to the country organization.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
General:
- Ensure the smooth running of the financial organisation of the ZOA country office.
- Supervision of finance department at country office.
- Support and control of the financial managers at field offices.
- Support country office and field offices in acquisition, purchase, contract management and tender procedures in accordance with ZOA internal systems.
- Support MGA in compliance to donor regulation, local government regulation and ZOA regulations.
Finance
- Provide timely financial feedback to the ZOA Managers in the field, and MGA.
- Analyses the financial progress of the country organisation and reports on deviations compared with approved budgets (i.e. project progress and coverage of country office cost and indirect costs)
- Identifies risks with financial consequences, react and report on these.
- Prepare, in coordination with the MGA, financial reports to HQ and donors.
- Ensure adequate portfolio management in ZOA Information System (ZIS).
- Monitor the quality of financial and administrative operations of the field offices.
- Prepare periodic finance reports for Country Management Team members.
- Support financial audits considering the requirements of the donors and the HQ.
- Compile and manage the monthly cash flow.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should preferably hold a University degree in the field of finance or / and economy, and good knowledge of accounting procedures and computerized, integrated financial administration.
- At least five years of proven work experience in a financial management or senior finance position.
- Proven work experience with INGO in the humanitarian sector.
- Hands-on, flexible, communicative, transparent, creative, tolerant to stress.
- Familiar with Excel, at least three years of experience at the level of intermediate user.
- Experience in the fields of informatics, logistics and human resources is an asset.
- Good analytical skills, high levels of accuracy, knowledge of internal controls, checks and balances.
- Organizational sensitivity and ability to work in a team.
- Excellent command of English.
- Being a Christian; adhering to the Christian identity of ZOA.
How to Apply:
All applicants should send an application letter together with curriculum vitae (max 3 pages) inclusive names and contacts (e-mail and cell phone number) of three referees of recent assignments to: hr@zoa.ug with the subject header: Finance Manager
Deadline: 16th March 2018
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