Overview
The Finance Manager will lead consortium-level financial oversight, compliance, partner financial monitoring, and donor financial reporting for the South Sudan Cash Consortium. The role is responsible for ensuring strong financial governance, compliance, transparency, and value for money across the consortium.
Tasks Summary
- Lead consolidated consortium budgeting and financial planning
- Review and consolidate partner budgets and budget revisions
- Monitor burn rates and expenditure trends across partners
- Produce monthly consortium financial dashboards
- Ensure alignment between programmatic and financial delivery
- Provide regular forecast for decision making
- Ensure full compliance with donors financial regulations and contractual obligations
- Lead preparation of interim and final financial reports
- Coordinate supporting documentation for donor verification
- Support audit processes (internal and external)
- Ensure timely closure of audit recommendations
- Advise Consortium Director on financial risk exposure
- Review partner financial reports for accuracy and eligibility
- Conduct spot checks and financial monitoring visits
- Track cost eligibility, supporting documentation, and transfer value compliance
- Ensure harmonised financial reporting templates across partners
- Support partners to address identified financial compliance gaps
- Maintain consortium financial risk register
- Identify fiduciary risks and propose mitigation measures
- Support fraud prevention, reporting, and investigation processes
- Ensure segregation of duties and financial accountability mechanisms
- Ensure financial tracking aligns with consortium MIS
- Coordinate reconciliation between finance records and distribution data
- Support digitalisation of financial monitoring tools
- Present financial updates to Steering Committee
- Support value-for-money analysis
- Advise on cost-efficiency and optimisation strategies
- Contribute to proposal budgets and budget modifications
- Develop and manage financial policies and SOPs specific to cash programming
- Identify financial management capacity gaps and training needs assessments for partner staff
- Provide hands on support and training for proper and effective use of resources
- Conduct support to field offices and partner offices to reconcile accounting records
- Provide training to partner finance teams on donor compliance and CVA financial management
- Promote accountability, transparency, and safeguarding standards.
Experience Requirements
- Minimum 5 years relevant working experience, preferably with International NGOs
- Strong knowledge of ECHO financial compliance requirements
- Good financial management skills with knowledge of computer Accounting Packages and good understanding of major donors financial requirements, conditions and Government budgets and tax policies
- Experience managing multi-partner or consortium budgets
- Self motivated with demonstrated ability to generate financial reports and meet set deadlines and with good integrity
- Team player with good interpersonal/communication, documentation, and facilitation skills and the ability to work under minimum supervision
- Ability to maintain personal professional development and competencies on financial issues
- Strategic management and people management skills – team building and delegation
- Strong negotiation, diplomacy and Confidentiality
- Good Policy Development and analytical skills
- Ability and willingness to undertake periodic field travel to up-country and in insecure areas
- Prior experience managing multi-partner and multi-donor budgets
Qualification Requirements
- Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
- Professional certification (ACCA, CPA, CIMA or equivalent) strongly preferred
