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Finance Manager (National Position) - Somalia

Somalia

  • Organization: NRC - Norwegian Refugee Council
  • Location: Somalia
  • Grade: Mid/Senior level - Mid/Senior - Internationally recruited position
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Banking and Finance
    • Emergency Aid and Response
    • Managerial positions
  • Closing Date: Closed


The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

The NRC Somalia Country Programme is part of the NRC Horn of Africa, Yemen, Uganda and South Sudan regional mission.Prioritized activities focus on shelter and infrastructure construction; water, hygiene and sanitation; emergency education including youth education; food security; protection and information, counselling and legal Assistance (ICLA).

The purpose of the Finance Manager is to be responsible that the financial set up is according to NRC standard and to support programme/project implementation.

Job description

Specific Roles and Responsibilities
Train budget holders, finance and support staff on budget preparation and budget monitoring
Prepare Top down and populate eBPO in consultation with HoP and the CD.
allocation of support cost percentage / amount for every new Grant and ensure adeqaat support cost (national and international support salary, and operational costs are incorporated.
work with the AMs and ensure accurate reliable master support budget in place and updated
Ensure accurate master support budget, the funding gap identified, monitored and flagged to AMs, CMG and CD, measures suggested and followed up to reduce the deficit
Register projects in Agresso master file (both Oslo and country office clients).
Share summary Budget Vs Actual for the entire program with the CD upon request and at least once a month.
Work with budget holders and various support staff to prepare quality budgets
Prepare financial reports for All NRC Somalia projects
follow with the HoP and CD to ensure that NRC receives installments from donors on time as per the project agreement.
Support the Area managers and country director to effectively use Master Budget Vs Actual
Prepare and share BVA with budget holders on timely basis. (ensure it is prepared in the donor format). Ensure documented BVA meetings with action plans and follow ups. Update the CD on the status of the agreed action plans before the next BVA meeting.
Ensure that all the relevant staff know how to use Agresso Excelerator and are able to retrieve reports from Agresso
Support the budget holders to allocate costs to the relevant budget lines. Including checking PRs in Somalia for correct project codes and budget reference.
Training finance staff on checking costs against budgets before posting costs into Agresso
Prepare fair share calculation of support costs across various donors and support the finance staff to correctly charge costs according to this agreed fair share calculations.
Share salary allocations and ensure time sheets are signed and uploaded into Agresso
Support the budget holders with identifying cost relocations.
Support the FMs and controller with yearend closure process
Act as Finance Manager in the absence of Finance Manager for the accounting and finance section.

Qualifications

Minimum 3 years of experience from working as a Finance Coordinator or Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context
Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
Solid knowledge of computer software and modern accounting systems
Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
Knowledge of the context in Somalia
Knowledge of the local language Somali
Experience with start-up, exit or similar

Education field

  • Finance / Economics

Education level

  • College / University, Bachelor's degree

Personal qualities

Managing performance and development
Empowering and building trust
Managing resources to optimize results
Handling insecure environments

We offer

Commencement: ASAP
Contract period: 12 months, with possibility of extension
Salary/benefits: According to NRC’s general directions
Duty station: Mogadishu, with frequent travel to all areas of programme implementation

NRC may be required to verify the identity of its partners/employees and to check that its partners/employees have not been involved in illegal activities. NRC reserves the right to use electronic screening tools for this purpose.
This vacancy is now closed.
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