SENIOR FINANCE OFFICER (INT11468)

Overview

The role is for a Senior Finance Officer responsible for preparing and monitoring project budgets, preparing financial reports, and conducting audits of projects and partners.

Tasks Summary

• Prepare project’s budgets and monitoring them in coordination with Area manager and finance manager
• Prepare the financial reports and submit them relevant Coordinators and Managers.
• Prepare information required by auditors.
• Conduct audits of projects and partners.
• prepare the yearly council budgets for the hub
• Provide reports to the Area Manager and Finance Manager on the status of beneficiary/partner accounts
• To ensure that Oxfam financial procedures are followed
• To train finance staff and partner’s staff in the hub in Oxfam agreed procedures and basic accounting procedures and bookkeeping.
• Check monthly accounts in PeopleSoft as per set up deadlines
• Check monthly accounts for submission to Regional Centre and ensure that they are properly authorized, print PeopleSoft reports.
• Check the balance sheet accounts: Accruals, prepayments, creditors and debtors’ accounts to ensure they are balanced and correct
• Managing finance unit at the hub level, and ensure that team has there objective, appraisal, and capacity building plan is set up and follow up on implementation.
• Revise, audit, and process payments assuring it includes all the supporting doc’s: invoices, receipts, proof of payment, procurement doc’s, and or contracts, etc. This will require seeking appropriate authorization and insuring that all supporting documents are appropriately filed.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 4 to 5 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated experience of Team management and capacity building of teams.
• Management of budgets

Qualification Requirements

• University Degree in Finance or Accountancy qualifications/significant relevant years of experience at this level with International Agencies or NGOs.

Other Details

Languages Required: • Fluency in Arabic and English (written and verbal)

Languages Preferred: • CMA is an advantage

Contract Duration: Fixed Term

Work Modality: On-site

Remuneration: as per Oxfam salary scale