Senior Finance
Coordinator
Job
from Action Aid
Job ID: #563898
Career categories:
Finance/Accounting/Auditing
Country: South Africa
City: Johannesburg
Organization: Action
Aid
Theme: Protection and
Human Rights
Job years of
experience: 5-10 years
Job type:Job
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The Senior Finance Coordinator will provide strategic
financial oversight and support primarily to the Head of Europe. This role is
responsible for monitoring financial management and performance of countries in
the Group, ensuring compliance with global standards, systems and processes,
encouraging adoption of best practices, and strengthening the financial
capacity, engagement and mutual accountability of Finance teams in the Group.
The role will further provide strategic financial support to the designated
Directorate in strategic planning, reporting, analysis and risk management,
with a focus on finance implications of fundraising models.
Desired Skills & Experience Formally, you should have a
Professional Accounting or Financial Management Qualification, coupled with a
minimum of 8 years post qualification experience in position of senior
financial management or accounting, preferably in the NGO sector and with
experience in project and change management. The ideal candidate will have very
good knowledge of computerised accounting packages and Excel. Knowledge of
databases would be useful. Experience in analysing strategies, financial reports
and plans, and drawing insight for use by management and different donors will
be essential. Experience in providing support and training, particularly from a
distance, will be required in this role. In this position, the ability to think
strategically, to delegate where appropriate, to prioritise competing demands
and to influence a peer group will be required together with excellent
communication skills (fluent spoken and written English, command of additional
languages are ). The Finance Coordinator must be able to work independently,
have strong inter-personal skills and be self-motivated. The candidate will
need to be flexible to provide strategic support to other countries and
projects as required. At a personal level, you must have a strong commitment to
a human rights based approach to development, champion women's rights and value
working with diverse cultures and the poor and marginalised groups. Your
ability and willingness to travel internationally and work flexibly in virtual
settings and distant management would be required.
How to apply:
Further information on this position can be obtained from
our website at www.actionaid.org/jobs or from the attached job description.
Applications should be sent to: financeops.jhb@actionaid.org
by no later than 19th of April 2013. Your application should consist of your up
to date CV and motivation letter. You are requested to highlight in the
motivation letter how specifically you meet the criteria for this role. Please
clearly indicate which position you are applying for.
Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only
correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback
on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your
application unsuccessful. ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited
candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of
our vacancies at any time.
Action Aid International promotes diversity and welcomes
applications from all section of the community.
Closing date: 19 Apr
2013
