Post:Senior Finance
Coordinator, Johannesburg, South Africa
Actionaid
108 Fox Street Metropolitan Building, 8th Floor, Johannesburg, 2000, South Africa
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.
ActionAid International promotes diversity and welcomes
applications from all section of the community.
