• Application Deadline: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: Finance Officer - DID



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience



• Location Abuja




• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
  
  

Overview:

• Sightsavers is looking for a Finance Officer – Disability Inclusive Development (DID) to deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met.

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)