Job Title: Regional Finance Coordinator – West Africa
Code: SR-00-9445
Deadline: 20/08/2024
Country: Head Quarters
Duty Station: Dakar, with regular missions in the country of competence
Type of duty station: Family duty station
Starting date: 01/01/2025
Contract duration: 12 months, renewable
Reporting to: Regional Director
Functional Supervisor: Deputy Finance Director
Supervision of: Regional Finance Controller (hierarchical) and Finance Coordinators (functional)
General context of the project
INTERSOS is a humanitarian employer based in 1992, running at the frontlines of disaster situations. In its international locations of operation, INTERSOS intervenes to help the maximum inclined populations stricken by conflicts, excessive poverty, herbal and artifical failures in difficult and hard-to-attain regions, wherein the humanitarian desires stay the best and wherein the humanitarian presence is frequently weak. In such contexts, INTERSOS makes a speciality of presenting forcibly displaced populations and host groups with life-saving humanitarian assistance, withinside the regions of Protection, Health & Nutrition, in addition to WASH and Shelter.
INTERSOS operations are guided through its Code of Conduct and through the humanitarian concepts of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence. Every intervention is characterised through the centrality of the human being, the precept from which INTERSOS values descend. Specifically, INTERSOS is borderless, impartial, independent, touchy to nearby cultures, responsive to nearby capacity, expert in solidarity, and transparent. INTERSOS additionally adheres to the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief.
General purpose of the position
The Regional Finance Coordinator is accountable for the coordination and tracking of accounting, economic and monetary strategies of the place of competence making sure strict appreciate of closing dates and compliance to INTERSOS guidelines, economic requirements and strategies. Contribute to the decision-making of basic control of the Organization with the aid of using presenting well timed and correct statistics to the Deputy Director of Finance and Regional Director.
Main responsibilities and tasks
Compliance
- Assess regulations and criminal constraints of donors and put in force a dependable gadget to appreciate rules and compliance
- Guarantee adherence to INTERSOS strategies and tools
- Ensure missions appreciate closing dates and reporting gadget
- Support the Finance Coordinators for the audit method on the Mission stage and comply with up at the implementation of the audits` recommendations.
Data monitoring, consolidation and reporting
- Overview accuracy of missions accounting statistics with the assist of the Regional Controller
- Monitor applicable monetary and economic signs in settlement with Regional Director
- Consolidate statistics as required with the aid of using the Model and designed with the aid of using the HQ Finance department
- Report each region to the Deputy Director of Finance
Economic Sustainability
- Control the sustainability of missions’ annual budget and follow up on a monthly basis the sustainability indicators by pointing out variances or critical issues
- Verify sustainability of project proposals in compliance with cost recovery strategy identified by the Organization
Management of Finance staff
- Submit workforce requests to HQ for finance positions after verification of price range coverage
- Promote powerful communique with finance workforce and foster employees improvement of country wide and global team
- Organize local conferences with Country Finance Coordinators with a view to harmonize paintings practices, proportion experiences, construct capacities, roll-out new tools
- In case of Country Finance Coordinator vacant positions, perceive pleasant answers to guarantee the strolling of sports withinside the missions deploying roving finance workforce,
- Regional Controller or performing brief as Country Finance Coordinator, both remotely or traveling the missions
- Prepare technical Internal Performance Review (IRP) of supervised finance workforce
Education
- Bachelor`s diploma in finance, accounting, commercial enterprise administration, economics, or a associated field;
- Professional revel in five years of applicable revel in withinside the Humanitarian or Development region withinside the Finance / Accounting or Grant Management;
- Experience in dealing with budget throughout more than one places or international locations is desirable.
Professional requirements
- Strong financial analysis and reporting skills;
- Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Office Suite (especially Excel)
Languages
- Working knowledge of English and French is mandatory
Personal requirements
- Excellent communique and presentation skills;
- Strong management and group control capabilities;
- High interest to element and accuracy;
- Strong problem-fixing and decision-making skills;
- Analytical midnset;
- Orientation to target;
- Willingness to tour inside the place as needed;
- Cultural recognition and information of nearby monetary dynamics.
General Conditions
- Family duty-station
- Remuneration According to place and seniority
- Transportation Round-experience flights for the humanitarian worker + dependents. For any project lasting as a minimum 12 months, at nine months one loose aircraft price price tag to the us of a of residency and returned to the project for the humanitarian worker + dependents
- Medical coverage Medical Insurance; accidents and demise coverage; civil legal responsibility coverage, compensation for vaccines, scientific certificates and PCR check for deployment; psychosocial guide on request for humanitarian worker + dependents
- Visa Visas for the humanitarian worker + dependents
- Annual depart 2.five days in line with month
- Installation prices Installation prices lump sum
- School expenses School charge contribution for dependents on project
- Induction Online orientation course
Notes 1 In « Family duty station », unaccompanied humanitarian workers may decide to exchange family benefits for an interim flight every 3 months to the country of residency.
Notes 2 INTERSOS applies a “Learning & Development Policy” which includes the possibility to receive capacitation and participate in internal and external training. Priority will be given to Staff working for
INTERSOS for over two years. Staff with seniority >2 with a demonstrated good performance and high commitment will be invited to be part of the INTERSOS Pool and to create their “Personal Development Plan”.
The Personnel Development Coordinator will then accompany them individually to shape their capacity-building plan.
Notes 3 The categorization of Family, Non-Family, and Accompanied Duty stations is subject to security criteria, access to health and education services, and is non-negotiable.
