Finance Coordinator at Medecins du Monde (MdM)

Medecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care. MdM operating in Nigeria, Borno state since October 2016.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Coordinator (F/M)

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Job type: Full-time (Fixed Term Contract)

Job Description

• Under the supervision of the general coordinator, you lead on enhancing financial and administration quality, accountability and learning systems of MdM interventions in Nigeria.
• You support the coordination team and field teams in strengthening financial monitoring and learning processes and tools.
• Team under your direct supervision: a deputy finance coordinator, a finance manager and a finance assistant (national staff)

Responsibilities
More specifically, your main responsibilities are the following:
Strategic financial planning, effective budget and financial management, partnership and capacity building:

• Monitor overall budget consumption according to donors’ constraints and update regularly the budget follow-up
• Provide reliable information on budget consumption and forecast
• Be responsible for financial data’ management, coding tables and allocations, updating of the Excel tool so as to ensure its reliability and its comprehensiveness to be able to make costs analysis and help with decision
• Support the general coordinator on strategic direction of the country mission’s funding plan, operating budget and risks management
• Take initiatives to build or enhance sound financial management and streamline / rationalize operational spendings for cost accounting purposes
• Prepare, revise and maintain Country Mission Operating Budget and grant proposal budgets per assigned grant portfolio
• Prepare and revise grant budgets to support new proposals or realignments to ensure adequate coverage of country operating costs and headquarters costs
• Effect updating of grant pipelines and monthly projections per assigned grant portfolio and to propose and prepare budget revisions, as necessary
• Identify and analyse any discrepancy and suggest solutions

Treasury and accountancy:

• Ensure the soft accountancy of all sites for both accounting & donor allocations
• Ensure and guarantee the cash provision and safe management across the different programs / bases
• Assess the needs for the projects for the coming months, compile fund requests from each department to monitor cash flow management and submit it to HQ in good time
• Ensure that payments are made in a timely and secure manner across all the country operations
• Update and implement the cash management protocols
• Coordinate the closure of monthly accountancy in coordination with HQ
• Ensure all bank transactions in line with internal policies and procedures

Audit, compliance and reporting:

• Produce financial budget (proposal and reports) to donors based on the needs identified by the other departments
• Be responsible for the financial issues linked to partnerships; agreements writings, compliance and analyse of the documents provided by partners, reporting
• Be responsible for the compliance of all the accountancy’s documents, its scanning and archiving
• Provide all documents necessary for external and internal audits
• Prepare, organise, supervise and monitor audits at field level
• Ensure the tax payment in time according to rules and regulations
• Develop and/or revise and implement country mission-specific financial procedures and guidelines
• Ensure all MdM’s financial activities including payroll, income and other taxes are compliant with Nigerian laws

Team management:

• Overall responsibility of the finance department including the HR sizing
• Supervise of the overall recruitment, training and performance appraisal of the finance department staffs
• Support and provide advice to the finance team and to other departments to ensure full understanding of their responsibilities regards finance management

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related courses
• Significant professional experience (minimum two years) in an equivalent position, preferably in an international NGO with multi-donor budgets
• Previous experience as field administrative will be preferred (minimum two years ideally)
• Analyse significant discrepancies between forecasts and actual records, interpret them, contextualise them, identifying the causes and risks, warn
• Analyse and communicate accounting and budgetary information
• Capacity to optimise a financial package
• Ability to read, construct and analyse a budget and carry out budget monitoring
• Capacity building skills: capacity to create and lead a financial training session
• Knowledge in supply chain management is a plus
• Proven skills in team management in a multicultural working environment
• Excellent multi-tasking and organization skills
• Very strong proficiency in Excel,
• Knowledge in SAGA would be an asset
• Languages: fluent English mandatory (oral and written). Knowledge of the country languages such as Hausa or French would be an asset
• You embrace the core values and support the proactive philosophy of Médecins du Monde

Benefits

• Starting date: August 25, 2025
• 12-month contract (renewable)
• Gross monthly salary: €3,459
• Position based in Abuja, Nigeria (NOT a family position) with regular field visits
• Premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments – minimum of 6 months seniority required
• Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
• Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
• Accomodation in guesthouse
• 22.5 recovery days per year
• 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
• Health insurance (50% covered by MdM and 50% by the employee)
• Insurance (repatriation…)

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
• As part of our measures to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism, any selected candidate may be subject to a background check on international sanctions lists (UN, the EU, France, the United States…). This information is handled confidentially and stored on a secure server.
• For more information on the processing of personal data throughout this process: Telephone Applications will not be accepted
• Médecins du Monde reserves the right to fill the vacancy before the closing date for applications.
• MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.