Finance Managers - Horn, East & Central Africa & West Africa

Salary (dependent on seniority of post):
C1: ?24,245 - ?30,853 net per annum pro rata to the contract length (Net = take home pay. Oxfam GB will meet the tax and social security liabilities of post holder in addition to net salary)
OR
C2: ?20,619 - ?27,642 net per annum pro rata to the contract length (Net = take home pay. Oxfam GB will meet the tax and social security liabilities of post holder in addition to net salary)

Benefits: Oxfam offers a wide range of benefits, including holiday/TOIL, pension, medical cover, insurance, living and accommodation costs (covered while on deployment).
Hard To Work Allowance (maybe payable depending on location): ?4000 p.a. net, pro rata to the contract length

This is a preparedness measure for emergency response. At the moment these positions are not confirmed and are dependent on the outcome of asessments and funding. We will be longlisting applications as they come in and will only contact those shortlisted on an ongoing basis prior to the closing date. We are looking to also increase our Finance Register.
We encourage all French, Swahili and English speakers to apply as soon as possible. (Please be aware that some of the languages mentioned above may be an essential skill for some of the roles however this is dependent on which country the individual is deployed to).

Key responsibilities
? Set up field offices in areas of field operations and set up requisite systems and procedures
? Be responsible for the preparation and monitoring of the emergency response budgets
? To work with Regional/Country funding teams on donor proposals, preparation of donor reports and budget revisions when necessary
? Ensure adherence to donor financial requirements
? To ensure proper authorisation of payments, maintenance of cash and bank books, preparation of monthly accounting returns.
? Manage the field finance and IT staff and ensure that work priorities are agreed and staff inducted to perform their roles adequately
? Ensure security of bank, cash, stock and capital assets
? Provide regular management information on financial status of the humanitarian programme
? Work with logistics staff to ensure logistics system agrees to the financial minimum standards
? To ensure the allocation of adequate financial resources at relevant programme sites including being responsible for cash management including top ups, cash transfers between sights etc.
? To review financial management capacity of non finance and programme staff as well as partners (as required) and finance training and support as required.
? To assist in the preparation of monthly salary statements including the timely deduction and deposit of taxes, insurance and other statutory liabilities.
? To ensure proper balance sheet management including that up-to-date records of staff loans and advances, floats, liabilities etc

Skills and competence
? Recognised accounting qualification
? At least three year's experience in finance, ideally with at least two years working in a supervisory position.
? Ability to lead in financial management in humanitarian context.
? Ability to develop and produce critical finance management tools to ensure excellent financial services to deliver the programme.
? Experience of managing donor schedules and production of donor reports.
? Proven knowledge and experience of computerised systems, preferably with accounting packages as well as advanced Excel skills.
? Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work on own and within various teams.
? Ability to manage competing tasks; ability to prioritise and produce high level output consistently.
? Critical awareness of gender equity principles and commitment and interest to developing these within Oxfam.
? Knowledge of institutional donor requirements; EC, DfID, UN partner agreements, SIDA etc.
? Excellent written and spoken French, Swahili and English essential

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