(Offre en Anglais) Danish Refugee Council (DRC) recrute un Finance Manager Maghreb Retour vers les opportunités

We are looking for a highly-qualified Finance Manager for Maghreb. Position based in Tunis with frequent travel to Southeast Tunisia, Libya and Algeria.

Who are we?

Danish refugee council has been operating in Libya and Tunisia since 2011 and in Algeria since 2016. DRC/DDG works with vulnerable people who are displaced / affected by conflict, instability. DRC/DDG has offices in Tripoli and Sabha in Libya, Tunis and Zarzis in Tunisia. DRC started its operation in Algeria in April 2016 working in the Sahrawi Refugee camps in Tindouf.

About the job

The Finance Manager, in coordination and cooperation with the program and support team members, and supervised by the Head of Finance and Administration, is expected to substantially contribute to ensure that DRC Maghreb (Algeria, Libya and Tunisia) is compliant with DRC Operations Handbook with regards to financial procedures, and ensure that DRC Maghreb is compliant with applicable National and Donor regulations including taxation, social security etc.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Ensure all transactions for payment and receipts are processed in a smooth and compliant manner.
2. Ensure all related financial documentation is collected, filed and maintained.
3. Ensure management of Finance team members, their capacity development, learning, and trainings are monitored and followed up.
4. Contribute to finance team workflows, procedures and compliance improvement.

To achieve the overall and specific position’s objectives the Finance Manager will perform the following tasks and undertake the following responsibilities:

Cash and Bank Management

Review expense reports for accuracy and completeness and ensure expense reports are approved before payment and supervise Maghreb cash flow management, including receipt of monthly cash flow projections from field offices and perform necessary requests to HQ and transfers to field offices to ensure cash and bank accounts are replenished on timely basis.

Transactions & Vouchers

• Ensure that all transactions are properly coded to respective grants and budget lines are accurate.
• Bookkeeping and Data Entry.
• Participate in cash count to ensure balance as per cashbook match with physical cash, upload Cashbooks in Navision per schedule, and perform rebooking.

Finance and Accounting

• Maintain pre-payments and accrual file and ensure they are amortized to donors on a monthly basis.
• Ensure vouchers for Maghreb program are recorded, reviewed and uploaded to cashbooks.
• Prepare rebooking sheet for HQ to over and underspent on donors.
• Prepare the Operation Budget and regularly update it with new funding and identify gaps.

Grants Management

• Maintain grant file for each project and ensure all documents including signed contract, budget, amendments and other correspondence with donors is updated.
• Prepare donor financial reports for review of HoFA.
• Communicate with HQ regarding budget coding and budget revisions coding.
• Follow up with donors for instalments.

SUB-GRANTS MANAGEMENT

Ensure sub-grants instalments and expenditures are properly accounted for on time.

TEAM MANAGEMENT

• Ensure, with support of HoFA, finance team members jobs and responsibilities are clearly defined.
• Administrative management of finance team on a day-to-day basis.

AUDITS

• Participate in final audit meetings and discussions on audit report and management letters.
• Ensure that HQ closes the grant in the system after the audit report is submitted.
• Provide regular updates about the audit to HOFA.

About you

To be successful in this role you must have a experience working with NGOs, other international agencies or multinational business in a similar role and Working experience with some donors, UNHCR, DFID, EC, ECHO

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You act in line with our vision and values.

Moreover, we also expect the following:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance or Business Administration. Experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Good budget development skills for multiple donors
• Strong information technology skills
• Fluent in written and spoken English, Arabic and French an advantage
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, working with different groups and nationalities
• Good management skills
• Excellent people and team management skills, able to hold to account, build and motivate people and teams effectively
• Strong initiative and self-motivated, with a strong commitment to teamwork and humanitarian principles
• Ability to multi-task and cope with competing demands under tight deadlines
• Identify priority activities and assignments, adjust priorities as required
• Experience of leading the implementation of operational improvements and the persistence to achieve change in a challenging environment.

Ideally, you will also have:

• Ability to operate and think strategically, coupled with proven analytical skills and the use of these to problem solve and make firm decisions
• Aptitude and openness to change, with an ability to lead change management.

We offer

DRC will offer the successful applicant a 12 months’ contract, renewable dependent on both funding and performance. You must be available to start work from 1st of March 2017 and be willing and able to work in Tunis with frequent travel within Maghreb.

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for National Staff. This position will be placed at level F, 5.

About DRC

The Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is a humanitarian, non-governmental, non-profit organisation founded in 1956 that works in more than 35 countries throughout the world. We are the largest humanitarian NGO in Denmark and consistently ranked as one of the world’s best NGOs according to Global_Geneva.

We fulfil our mandate by providing direct assistance to conflict-affected populations – refugees, internally displaced people and host communities in the conflict areas of the world. We also advocate on behalf of conflict-affected populations globally on the basis of humanitarian principles and the Human Rights Declaration. Our work and long-term strategies are guided by our five core values: Humanitarian approach – Respect – Independence & neutrality – Inclusion – Honesty & transparency.

You can read more about our vision and work on drc.ngo.