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Oxfam Novib, Finance Officer Special Projects

Oxfam Novib is looking for a Finance Officer Special Projects, who, together with us and many others, want to work towards creating a just world without poverty.

Around the world people are fighting for their right to a decent livelihood. Oxfam Novib supports them in this. We support projects, strengthen local organisations and campaign for just policies. We do so locally and internationally because poverty and injustice are global problems and are related to unjust economic and political relationships. That is why we work together with Oxfam International.

Finance Officer – Special Projects

32-36 hours per week for the duration of 1 year (start asap)

will be based in The Hague

Purpose of the role

Implement and monitor the financial aspects of the assigned Special Projects, manage the financial risks & opportunities and arrange the necessary internal and external reports.

Responsibilities

  1. Draws up the consolidated budget for (externally funded) project proposals on the basis of intended project activities and on the basis of the information supplied by the implementing ON bureaus and partners.
  2. Checks and processes declarations and invoices, requests for corrections; calculates what part of project implementation to charge to Special Projects. Works with the ON management information system. Keeps the overview of the total spending of the project in close co-operation with the financial officers of the implementing ON bureaus and consortium partners. Writes financial reports for a steering group or other governance structure and puts these to the project leader and senior financial officer SPEF for his/her approval.
  3. In the case of project approvals, writes the financial management reports in line with the standards of the back-donor(s), including a (first) analysis, and puts these to the project leader and senior financial officer SPEF for his/her approval.
  4. Periodically monitors the approvals, spending and performance at project level and revises where necessary and possible the (financial) planning. Registers this in management information systems and reports on overruns, deviations and such, and makes proposals to the project leader and senior financial officer SPEF for the (manner of) financing this within the approved project budget.
  5. Checks and appraises, in co-operation with the implementing ON bureaus and consortium partners, the financial aspects of funding proposals of intended local partners, on internal and external risks and opportunities. Co-ordinates on findings with the project leader and senior financial officer SPEF and makes proposal on the (manner of) financing.
  6. Checks and appraises, in co-operation with the implementing ON bureaus and consortium partners, the financial reports and audits of local partners, taking into account the conditions as mentioned in the project approval.
  7. Checks and appraises, in co-operation with the implementing ON bureaus and consortium partners, and also the project leader and senior financial officer SPEF, the organisational structure, the (financial administrative) capacities and the management systems used by project partners. If necessary, makes proposals in close consultation with the implementing ON bureaus and/or works ideas out, in order to improve and strengthen them.
  8. Checks, appraises and monitors the financial risk profiles and co-ordinates on this with the senior financial officer SPEF, and takes appropriate action.

Requirements

  • A degree in finance management on a bachelor/masters level
  • 4 years of relevant work experience in financial position including financial management, planning, administration and budgeting & auditing.
  • Several years of working experience related to international development organisations
  • Experience in making independent financial analyses of development programmes, and capacity to evaluate these against the political and socio-economic context within which they are carried out.
  • Experience and knowledge of relevant financial IT-systems, Pastel and SAP (Adobe).
  • Excellent social skills and you are a team player.
  • Fluent in English, another foreign language as Portuguese, French and/or Spanish would be an asset.
Contact persoon:
Marjon Eshuis
Telefoonnummer:
070-3421932
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Applicants must be Nationals of an European Union member State or have a valid work permit for the European Union.

Acquisition due to this advertisement will not be appreciated.