Overview
The Finance Manager will be responsible for managing the financial and accounting functions of the country-wide operation, with a strong focus on financial planning and providing support to budget holders for effective budget management.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the finance team, including workforce planning, performance management, well-being, and staff development.
- Support the design, rollout, and strengthening of financial management capacity-building initiatives for DRC staff and local partners.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to finance staff involved in partner financial monitoring and support.
- Reinforce and maintain robust financial management and control systems, ensuring compliance with statutory laws/regulations, DRC’s Operations Handbook, internal policies, and donor requirements.
- Support timely submission of high‑quality financial reports to donors and prepare accurate internal financial reports.
- Ensure full compliance with all statutory financial obligations, including tax, levies, and other required returns.
- Provide monthly financial briefings for relevant managers.
- Ensure strong and effective budgetary control across country programs.
- Coordinate with managers on key financial matters, including co-funding requirements, financial reporting, variances, and necessary corrective actions.
- Consolidate cash forecasts from Programme Managers and ensure timely fund requests.
- Maintain an updated overview of funding levels, with particular attention to shared support costs such as staff salaries.
- Ensure all required documentation is prepared and available for internal, external, and donor audits.
- Hold monthly review meetings with project managers to discuss variances, root causes, and required remedial actions.
- Support the due diligence and local partner financial management capacity building and monitoring of financial reports.
- Lead financial risk assessment and mitigation measures for partner-managed budgets.
- Review, validate, and provide feedback on partner financial reports, ensuring accuracy, eligibility of costs, and alignment with approved budgets.
- Support and oversee partner financial audits, spot checks, and donor verifications, including follow-up on findings and implementation of corrective action plans.
- Ensure partner financial management requirements are clearly reflected in Sub-Grant Agreements (SGAs) and related financial annexes.
- Contribute to proposal development by leading the budgeting component.
- Support development of country plans and financial results contracts.
- Prepare and maintain the Master Budget, including regular status updates and gap analysis reports.
- Develop, keep updated and roll out contextualized financial policies and SoPs.
- Ensure full and effective utilization of the DRC Dynamics ERP system.
- Ensure proper implementation of all finance-related ERP processes across the country office.
- Use ERP-generated reports and analytics to drive improvements in financial performance.
- Ensure ERP support mechanisms are in place and functioning effectively.
- Capacity building of budget holders and finance staff on effective use of ERP system.
Required Experience
- Minimum 3 years of National/ International experience in Financial Management role.
- At least 3 years of experience in people management.
- Demonstrated experience in managing and overseeing financial components of sub-grants to local or national partners.
- Proven experience managing large budgets and working with ERP financial systems.
- Demonstrated leadership ability and strong people management skills.
- Strong competence in providing technical guidance and training.
- Experience working with national / international partners and local/government authorities.
- Technical experience of financial management of major donor grants.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Power Point and other related software.
Qualifications
- Graduate level degree in finance/accounting or business administration.
- Internationally recognized certifications (CPA, ACCA, CFA etc.) will be considered as strong asset
