South Sudan: Capacity Building Finance Manager

Job Title

Capacity Building Finance Manager

Job Location

Juba with up to 40% travel to field sites

General Description of the Programme:

GOAL South Sudan (SS) started working in Twic County in 1998, running an emergency relief project due to a famine throughout Bahr el Ghazal state. GOAL SS now runs public health programmes in the states of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile and southern Blue Nile State. Public health activities include curative primary health care, based on the management of primary health clinics; preventative health care including HIV/AIDS messaging, malaria control and hygiene promotion; nutrition and food security, water and sanitation engineering and clinic construction/rehabilitation.

General Description of the Role:

Support the Financial Controller in managing the GOAL South Sudan Finance Department. Provide training and capacity building to both finance and non-finance staff, and under the supervision of the Financial Controller improve existing work practices to ensure compliance with donor and other regulatory requirements.

Key Duties:

• Provide training for FOs on goal procurement policies, cashbook review checklist, coding, floats etc
• Provide training and capacity building for Roving Finance Officers and JFM
• Managing FOs and RFOs (Leave and R&R plans, performance reviews, flights etc)
• Review of weekly cash reports and provide feedback to FOs weekly on cashbooks
• Managing Galaxy transfers to the field and monitoring cash levels in the field. Monitor and update cash and bank policy with changes to safe limits/cash transfer limits etc
• Write, implement and monitor floats policy
• Write, implement and monitor training payments policy (what paperwork is needed before a training can take place, training plans, how we are monitoring payments made to beneficiaries, fraud issues etc)
• Oversee monthly updating of COA and Finance forms
• Improve month end journals so that they are more automated and take less time to validate and complete.
• Provide training for ACs, AHMs and Coordinators on budgets, BMTs and cash management
• Coordinate 2016 annual budget planning process and report to FC on same
• Tailor Finance Manual for South Sudan. Update and maintain exceptions list
• Support FC with any other jobs as required.

Requirements:

• A qualified Accountant (Chartered, Certified or Management)
• Three years post qualified experience
• Experience with management of Institutional Donor grants preferable eg: OFDA/ USAID, ECHO, DFID etc
• Work experience in busy, changing environment
• Excellent written and spoken English, outgoing personality with excellent communication and training skills
• Ability and willingness to work in a remote areas.
• Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word and if possible have knowledge of Sage desirable or a similar package.
• Ability to implement effective projects sometimes with limited resources.
• Good team player, flexible and capable of working with a multinational country team.

Reporting to: GOAL South Sudan Financial Controller

Contract Length: 1 year

Start date: Immediately

GOAL has a Standards of Integrity and a Child Protection Policy, which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants and children from exploitation. GOAL also has a confidentiality policy ensuring the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of GOAL, acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organisation without authority, except in the normal execution of duty. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to these policies any job offer made is also subject to police clearance. GOAL is an equal opportunities employer.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

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