Description
International Finance Manager (Accountant)
Permanent, Full time
Location – Huambo, Angola
Salary – £40,000 to £50,000 dependent upon experience
About Us
HALO Angola is seeking an experienced accountant fulfil the role of International Finance Manager (Accountant) (IFMA) in the Angola programme. The role will contribute directly to the delivery of donor funded humanitarian projects in Angola ensuring financial and contractual accountability. The role would suit someone who is experienced working at scale and with a finance team that is geographically disbursed and working in a challenging context. The successful candidate will be exceptional at working alongside others, bringing the best out of a team and pro-actively supporting the development of the finance department and wider programme team.
HALO has been working in Angola since 1994 and now has over 1,400 staff working across five provinces. There are over 70 different types of landmines in Angola from an estimated 41 years of minelaying during the war for independence and civil war which persisted from 1961 to 2002. As a signatory of the international convention on the ban landmines, HALO supports the Government of Angola to comply with its treaty obligations. To date, HALO has cleared over 100,000 mines and made over 25km2 of land safe for use.
The programme is supported by a diverse donor portfolio and is currently delivering 15 contracts of varying scale and scope. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic programme and a diverse team to support operations working across the vast and varied landscape of Southern Angola.
About the Role
The IFMA will work alongside another International Finance Manager and support the oversight of the programme’s finance department. They are responsible for ensuring the daily, monthly and annual financial duties are carried out in compliance with HALO’s policies, donor contracts and national finance and tax regulations, including that costs are allocated appropriately. In addition, the IFMA is responsible for ensuring the monthly financial close process is completed accurately and within deadlines using HALO’s financial ledger (Oracle Netsuite).
They are to lead their team and alongside other senior management members, they are to inspire, motivate and manage the programme. The IFMA shall supervise the payroll cycle ensuring donor funding allocation are accurate and that payments for income tax, social security and severance are in accordance with programme policy and Angolan legislation.
The IFMA is responsible for ensuring robust banking and cash management procedures and compliance with HALO’s financial policies. Managing the programme’s cash flow requirements and liaising with the HQ Finance team as and when necessary. The IFMA will also be responsible for preparation and presentation to auditors, including statutory and donor external auditors.
Role and Responsibilities
Accounting and Financial Control
Provide financial oversight and support to all programme locations, ensuring transactions are fully reconciled and discrepancies identified and corrected.
Ensure implementation of HALOs financial and logistics policies and procedures, reviewing and reporting on compliance against same.
Oversee the monthly financial close process, ensuring the country financial ledgers are closed within HALO deadlines.
Ensure that costs are allocated to grants/contracts in accordance with the cost allocation policy, identifying and reporting on any shortfalls in both direct and indirect cost coverage.
Supervise the production of the payroll cycle, ensuring donor funding allocations are accurate, and calculations for salary, income tax, social security, severance, and other government levies are in accordance with legislation.
Support the Programme Manager in ensuring compliance with all statutory legislation (e.g. tax, registration, labour law), including review of regulatory requirements in new operational territories.
Oversee the financial management of delivery partner contracts, ensuring compliance with HALOs contractual obligations.
Cash Management
Ensure that adequate banking and cash provisions are in place, set up in accordance with HALOs financial policies and that delegations of authority enable the programme to operate efficiently, particularly during periods of leave etc.
Manage the short-term cash flow requirements of the programme, liaising with HALO HQ to facilitate cash transfers. Manage the effects of exchange rate fluctuations between local and contract currencies.
External Reporting and Audit
Lead the preparation for external audits of locally prepared financial statements (statutory or donor), preparing schedules and documentation as and when required by auditors and/or HALO HQ finance department.
Prepare donor/client financial statements, reconciling to agreed budgets and financial ledger (Oracle NetSuite).
Prepare country financial statements in accordance with local legislation.
In collaboration with HALO HQ finance department, review, and report on compliance against HALO policies and procedures.
Financial planning and monitoring
Supportsenior and Programme Managers in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of annual business plans and project budgets.
Support analysis of the programme funding position, working collaboratively to produce scenarios that ensure ongoing financial stability.
Support the financial monitoring and review of grants/contracts, working closely with operations to forecast and report on project costs to completion.
Collaboratively produce project/programme budgets and forecasts utilising HALOs financial planning system (Adaptive Insights).
Support the Programme Managers in the management of financial risk in the programme, escalating and addressing any emerging risks.
Staff Management and Development
Ensure that financial staffing capacity is fit for purpose for the needs of the programme.
Support the development of capacity and career development of national staff, ensuing financial consistency and quality across the programme.
Requirements
Key Skills and Competencies Required
Essential Experience:
- Extensive experience in financial management overseas
- Recent and demonstrable experience in a financial management position
- Experience of managing personnel, mentoring and advising senior management
- Experience developing the capacity, structure and capability of teams
- Working in the INGO sector
- Experience of ERP systems
Essential Skills and Knowledge:
- Financial planning and reporting
- Good understanding of financial risk management in developing countries
- Ability to implement and monitor policies and procedures in challenging environments
- Proven ability to lead, manage, motivate, and develop a team
- Interpretation and implementation of donor/client contract requirements
- Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to coordinate activities
- Excellent literacy, numeracy, and IT skills, including data manipulation
- Fluent spoken and written English language skills
- Ability and willingness to work strategically and undertake routine administrative tasks
Essential Qualifications:
- Professional accounting qualification or clearly demonstrable QBE
Desirable Experience:
- Fluent spoken and written Portuguese language skills
HALO requires its applicants to work in line with our values, which are:
- Courage
- Discipline
- Integrity
- Respect for Others
- Loyalty
- Selfless Commitment
Benefits
Key Information
Location: The role will be based in Angola in Huambo and/or Menongue and travel across the provinces and to remote locations will at times be necessary.
Accommodation: Shared accommodation with other international staff is available.
Salary: Competitive salary – ranges from circa £40,000 to £50,000 annually subject to experience
Our benefits:
Local overseas allowance of $350 monthly
Shared accommodation in a rented HALO apartment, provided at nil cost
49 days of leave annually (weekend inclusive equivalent to 7 weeks of pay leave)
Three economy return flights to the member’s official home address (or an alternative location up to an equivalent cost)
Comprehensive insurance package: life assurance and emergency medical insurance, including evacuation and repatriation.
How to Apply
If you wish to apply, please submit your CV (no more than 2 pages) and a covering letter (no more than one page) in English. Closing date for applications will be 25th August 2023. If there is a sufficient calibre of applicants, we reserve the right to close the role earlier than the date noted.
In addition to confirming that you can meet the essential skills, competencies and HALO’s values, job offers are subject to two satisfactory references, a pre-employment medical, a criminal record check and successfully obtaining a visa to work in Angola.
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.