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Regional Finance Officer

  • Organization: The HALO Trust
  • Location:
  • Grade: Mid level - Mid level
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Operations and Administrations
    • Banking and Finance
  • Closing Date: Closed

Description


Regional Finance Officer

Permanent, Full Time

Location – Carronfoot, Thornhill, Dumfries (hybrid working)

Salary – Up to £29,925, dependent upon experience

About HALO:

HALO is the leading humanitarian mine clearance organisation globally, addressing the impact and drivers of conflict in 25+ countries and territories, with over 9,500 staff. Most of our staff are local employees and include a growing number of women. Our primary expertise is serving people affected by conflict, clearing landmines and the explosive remnants of war that threaten lives and livelihoods long after fighting has finished. We make land safe where war has ended, while also assisting those affected by active conflict and endemic violence, creating more durable solutions to support stability. HALO addresses human suffering caused by armed violence in some of the world’s most fragile places, securing weapons and ammunition, and working with both state and community actors to reduce the prevalence of armed violence.

In recent years HALO has grown significantly. With strong government, community and partner relationships, HALO is uniquely positioned to help build more resilient and prosperous communities, which are better equipped to respond to the interconnected global challenges of conflict, climate change, political and economic instability. As a result, the nature of HALO’s programming is diversifying to increase the impact we have in the context of these global challenges.

About the role:

Role Summary:

Donor Contract Management

  • Support the production of timely financial donor reports.
  • Provide support in the development of donor budgets utilising HALOs financial planning system (Adaptive Insights).
  • Support in the development of systems, tools and processes to ensure HALO’s budgeting and forecasting process operates efficiently and effectively.
  • Assist the financial monitoring and review of grants/contracts, working closely with operations to forecast and report on project costs to completion.

Programme Support

  • Support Programmes with all month end procedures, including bank reconciliations, journals, cost allocations, review expenditure for Donor eligibility.
  • Support the programmes in gathering documentation from programmes and review prior to submission to Auditors.
  • Support Programmes in the construction of country budgets together with anticipated donor funding allocations.
  • Support Programmes during the transition stage to our ERP System, Oracle NetSuite, dealing with national finance staff and our global Net Suite Team.
  • Support the review and reconciliation of implementing partner’s reports and review of request for payment.

Programme Compliance

  • Assist monitoring of compliance against overseas statutory regulations, including company registration, financial reporting, and taxation.
  • Assist in the monitoring of compliance against Donor regulations and HALO financial and logistics standing operating procedures, carrying out desk and field-based audits.
  • Assist in the production of transactional reports/documentation for grant/contract audits, liaising with the external auditors/country teams as appropriate.

All HALO staff are expected to undertake the following general duties:

  • Work within the framework of HALO’s core values, promoting its ethos and mission statement
  • Work towards achieving programme and/or group business plan objectives
  • Ensure familiarity with and adhere to all HALO policies and procedures and keep informed of HALO activities
  • Travel to HALO programmes as and when required (no more than 3 short visits per year)
  • To discharge duties and responsibilities under HALO’s Health and Safety Procedures which may include Risk and COSHH Assessments and participation in evacuation procedures as necessary.

Requirements

Qualifications

  • Accounting Qualification, such as AAT, or currently working towards qualification or QBE

Essential Experience, skills and knowledge

  • Previous experience in a finance role
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent organisational skills with the ability to coordinate activities
  • Excellent literacy, numeracy and IT skills, including data manipulation and data analysis (ability to produce pivot tables, VLookup, SUMIF etc.)
  • Ability and willingness to work strategically and undertake routine administrative tasks

Desirable Experience

  • ERP experience

Benefits

Benefits of working for HALO:

  • Salary of up to £29,925 dependent upon experience.
  • 25 days annual leave plus 8 statutory holidays - prorated for part time hours.
  • Emergency health insurance when travelling overseas
  • Non-contributory Life Assurance
  • Workplace Pension with up to 5% contributions matched by HALO
  • Flexible working policy
  • Cycle to work Scheme

The HALO Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. The HALO Trust is committed to a culture that is both diverse and inclusive and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people form a diverse candidate pool.

If you wish to apply, please submit your CV (no more than 2 pages) and a covering letter (no more than one page) detailing your suitability for the role.

Closing date for applications: 4th December 2022.

This vacancy is now closed.
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