Finance Manager at Street Child of Nigeria

Street Child is a UK charity working to protect vulnerable children and improve access to education in some of the poorest communities in the world.  We work in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nepal and since November 2016, Street Child has been involved in the Humanitarian response in North East Nigeria.

Street Child works in the fields of education, child protection and livelihoods, working to deliver sustainable solutions and create maximum impact. Our work combines counselling, family mediation, business support, school building, teacher training and child protection.  We were a key player in the Ebola crisis and led the global response for children orphaned by Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. We deliver all our programmes through local partners and, since 2008, together we have built/renovated over 200 schools and are now helping to educate over 40,000 young people.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Manager

Location: Maiduguri, Borno (including frequent field visits)
Job type: Full time
Department: Finance and Operations
Reports to: Country Director
Contract Term: 1-year fixed term with possibility of extension
Working Hours: Monday to Thursday 8:30am - 5:15pm, Friday 8:30am - 1:30pm

Key Responsibilities
Oversee the management of the accounts:

• Ensure account data is reliable and the accounts are kept in compliance with legal obligations, norms and internal procedures
• Ensure Quality of accounting deliverables; compliance with deadlines for sending accounts to management; quality of period-end closing operations; compliance with the organisation's internal frameworks
• Oversee the application of accounting procedures by the programme team
• Ensure the programme's accounts are in good order and comply with deadlines, SC procedures and mandatory local regulations applying to SC
• Ensure national accounts are set up in compliance with local regulations (if necessary)
• Validate the monthly accounts in compliance with SC norms and mandatory local regulations applying to SC (if necessary)
• Ensure accounting checks are carried out (validity of documents, quality of the accounting work, accounting, and funding allocations, etc.) and internal regulations and procedures are correctly applied
• Oversee the roll out of monthly, semi-annually and annually closing reconciliations

Ensuring the programme's cash flow management and making bank payments

• To ensure the availability of funds for implementing planned activities, and Benchmarks: Quality of management and control of cash flow; quality of money-flow security procedures; compliance with organisational frameworks defined by SC
• Ensure information about and the application of cash-flow procedures by the programme team
• Conduct regular checks on compliance with the organisation's procedures and regulations
• Archive cash-flow documents
• Adapt and manage the cash-flow in compliance with internal procedures and the legal framework
• Assist with the definition of the technical aspects of transporting funds and the regulations pertaining to money storage
• Ensure physical checks of office safes and cash boxes are conducted and check that control measures are followed
• Adapt and ensure the implementation of expenditure commitment procedure, train the programme team on how to use it
• Supervise the drawing up of cash-flow forecasts and check for optimal money flow management

Providing budget and financial management and the management of the programme's funding:

• Objective: To ensure the smooth-running of the programme with respect to its financial obligations
• Benchmarks: Compliance with the organisational procedures defined by the SC; quality of budget monitoring; quality of the budgets drawn up; quality of financial reports for donors; anticipation of financial problems Activities:
• Provide BVAs every month by the 10th of M+1 of all contracts
• Plan and lead the BVA analysis meetings every month before the 15th
• Ensure coherency between the programme budget and the donors' budgets
• Conduct the monthly, bi-annual and annual accounts closing operations · Raise programme teams' awareness of contractual budget and financial obligations
• Analyse donor guidelines and inform the teams about these procedures and their application
• Train programme teams in internal budget and financial management procedures so as to ensure a realistic budget, accurate expenditure codification and robust budgetary steering
• Draw up and monitor cost allocation tables for office and staff costs
• Check the budgetary monitoring of the funding schedule · Substantiate the financial accounts with regard to local legislation · Monitor and organise internal and external audits, assume the role of the auditor's primary contact in liaison with head office

Managing the financial aspects of all partners and subcontractors:

• To ensure all partners and subcontractors comply with the contractual terms and provide quality reports and supporting documents.
• Benchmarks: Quality and timely reports and support documents in compliance with the organisational procedures
• Objective: To ensure smooth relationship between partners and subcontractors with SC and capacity building of partners to achieve quality reports and supporting documents.
• Review Partners Agreements and budgets
• Validate the financial aspects of partnership agreements
• Conduct refresher trainings and capacity building sections to all partners
• Update partners database regularly
• Review and ensure accurate capturing of partner’s justification into QuickBooks/Aqilla by Finance Officer Ensure smooth partnership closure and reconciliation of partner accounts.

Managing the programme’s finance teams:

• Train the finance team
• Manage and lead the finance team, fix objectives and access the staff
• Set up communication and coordination mechanisms for the team
• Manage contractual monitoring (leave, end of trial periods, etc.) of finance team members; if necessary, co-validate disciplinary procedures with Operations Manager
• Oversee finance team's career development: define training needs and provide guidance on professional development

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified Accountant in a globally recognised professional accountancy body (ACA or ACCA).
• Significant experience with at least 2 years in a financial management managerial position
• Audit/accounting firms experience will be a plus.
• Highly familiar with management of sub-contracts and sub-grants with partners
• Past exposure and experience working on multiple projects
• Working knowledge of rules and regulations of donors and their application

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding

• Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.
• As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks.
• Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.
• In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

Salary
NGN 700,000 – 900,000 / Month (Gross)

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.