Posted:Nov 8
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Non-Profit Organization Management
Description:
Sightsavers is an international organisation that changes lives for the long term. We work in more than 30 countries to eliminate avoidable blindness and support people with visual impairments to live independently. We do what we do because 80 per cent of blindness in the world is avoidable, and we think that’s astoundingly unfair. We do it because people with disabilities deserve the same opportunities as everyone else. For more in depth information about our work and current projects, visit our policy and research pages
Job Description
Responsibilities
The Finance Officer – Disability Inclusive Development (DID) will deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met. Key duties will include:
- To develop, review and amend coordinating and implementing consortium partner contracts and budgets to enable project delivery with the guidance of the Head of Inclusive Futures
- Coordinate the process for timely and accurate donor financial submissions including core monthly financial expenditure reports, forecasts and ad hoc requests.
- Work with the Head of Finance to develop tools to improve financial analysis throughout the project, for instance Power-BI dashboards, using data linked from the programme financial database (MyCLAIMS)
- Support the preparation of financial reports and forecasts for the donor.
- Deliver the day-to-day finance and administration tasks on the DID project including partner transfers, cost recovery, fund management, procurement, manage the assets register.
Skills and Experience
To succeed in this role you will need:
- An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities
- Experience of institutional donor or large-scale contract management. In particular experience of FCDO funding would be useful.
- Excellent numerical skills
- Finance and Accounting experience
- High proficiency with Excel (pivot tables) is required and experience of a computer-based accounting system
- Strong attention to detail when needed, with a willingness to follow issues through to resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritise work in a high-pressure environment working to competing deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Experience of conducting/participating in finance workshops (desirable)
- Willingness to continuously develop skills and knowledge to remain current with donor funding developments. (desirable)
- Experience and awareness/understanding of international development context and humanitarian sector (desirable)
- Able to travel for up to 4 weeks per year
- Desire to follow up an accounting professional certification (i.e. ACCA or CIMA)
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Contract Based
