Finance Manager Re Danish Refugee Council Experience: 3 to 5 Years Kabul, Afghanistan Apply By: 30-01-2025

This role has a country focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines within the country. The role contributes to the development of country strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. The role provides support and/or technical guidance to country operations while overseeing country activities.

• Responsible for all finance related tasks within geographical area of responsibility
• Manage finance staff
• Ensure compliance with the finance chapters of DRC’s Operations Handbook

Responsibilities:

• People Management
• Lead and manage the finance team (including people planning, performance, well-being and development)
• Support the development and implementation of financial management capacity building of staff

Financial Management:

• In close cooperation with Managers in geographical area reinforce existing procedures and systems for financial management and control in compliance with guidelines of DRC’s Operations Handbook, internal guidelines and donor requirements.
• Support timely delivery of quality financial reports to donors and internal reports to colleagues and HQ.
• Ensure compliance with relevant country statutory and other financial obligations such as tax, levies and statutory returns.
• Monthly financial briefings to relevant Manager.
• Ensure thorough and effective budgetary control in the country programs
• Liaise with relevant Managers on key financial issues for all programs in the country, including co-funding, financial reporting, key variances and any remedial action.
• Collecting cash forecasts from all Programme Managers and requesting funds in a timely manner.
• Maintain a continuous overview of funding levels and pay particular attention to shared support costs, including staff salaries.
• Ensure all required documentation for financial audits in cooperation with Coordination staff and HQ.
• Ensure monthly meetings are held with project managers to discuss key variances, reasons for these, and any remedial action that is required.
• Prepare for local audits.
• Contribute to the development of proposals with regards to budgeting in cooperation with Managers
• Any other tasks as assigned by the supervisor

DRC Dynamics ERP system:

• Ensure DRC Dynamics is used to its full capacity.
• Ensure proper application of ERP finance processes in the country.
• Apply reports and data analytics from ERP system to improve performance in the country.
• Ensure that Country ERP support is in place (i.e. super users)

As Manager the post-holder is responsible for the following:

• Accountable for achieving DRC’s strategic goals and objectives within the area of responsibility.
• Accountable for making significant decisions on what the unit does: its purpose, functions and role, and for making commitments and decisions that require the expenditure of significant unit resources.
• Accountable for people management of direct reports, generally at least 3 employees.
• This includes hiring & firing, objective setting, probation, performance appraisal, development of staff, managing performance, including poor performance, etc.
• Accountable for making sound decisions based on DRC policies, MOPs, standards, and the advice of technical experts in DRC.

To be successful in this role you must have:

Experience and technical competencies:

• 8 years INGO or other international agencies experience in finance and operations management in international humanitarian set up, including demonstrated ability to set up operational management systems in a large Programme and direct experience of delivery of humanitarian Programme in an emergency response.
• Clear understanding of DRC Finance policies and Procedure.
• Proven experience in managing large budgets for multiple donors.
• Clear understanding of Donor restrictions and regulations.
• Extensive experience in financial reporting and knowledge of major donor rules including UNHCR, UNICEF, OCHA, WFP, ECHO, EC, DFID, DANIDA and USG.

Education/qualifications:

• Post graduate degree in Financial/Business management, Public Administration, Social Sciences or other relevant fields. Addition Professional qualification such as ACCA or CPA is desired.
• Proficient in standard computer applications and various accounting and financial management software. Good knowledge Navision financial software will be an added advantage.

Languages:

• Excellent communication skills in English is required.
• Understanding Dari/Pashto language is a strong advantage.

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