Finance Manager - South Sudan

AMREF South Sudan is seeking to recruit a Finance Manager to be based in Juba.  Reporting to the Country Director, s/he will manage and provide technical financial support to AMREF South Sudan with regards to offering guidance on budgetary issues in regards to expenditure and controls, financial project reporting, management reporting and operations. In addition the position will carry out relevant financial training to program/project staffs, Admin and HR.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Management in terms of monitoring and ensuring donor compliance and compliance to AMREF financial policies and Sudan national regulations on the implementation of accounting standards and procedures at all levels of the programs.
• Banking and reconciliation by ensuring close liaison with AMREF bankers to establish the financial status of the country program; preparing periodic financial cash-flow statements and reports; ensuring regular routine reconciliation of bank statement verses financial records maintained at AMREF and periodically liaising with respective donors on approved funds disbursed to AMREF bank accounts
• Management of donor funds by extracting information from donor financing agreements and preparing brief statements on confirmed secured funds and potential funding for management action; ensuring that appropriate financial procedures and standards are implemented and monitoring in the country programme in compliance with donor requirements.
• Budgeting and forecast by providing financial and accounting supports to Program/Projects in regard to preparation of budgets for proposals due for submission to relevant donors and following up on approved budgets for program/projects to ensure adherence to donor contracts;
• Financial report management both narrative and written including preparation of monthly monitoring financial reports for project managers and Country Director;
• Leading and supervising operations and administrative staff members and providing overall leadership and management of general administration and IT support services.
• Liaising with Internal and External auditors and responding to queries, observations and recommendations.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or  Business Administration, Finance, Economics or other related preferable with MBA or graduate degree in financial management , CPA ( East Africa);
• 5+ years experience as senior Manager in a similar size NGO or company, overseeing multi-departmental responsibilities including Administration, HR and Finance;
• Advanced Knowledge and experience with Accounting  and /or financial management software and MS office applications;
• Strong Knowledge of South Sudan financial tax regulations, especially those pertaining to nongovernmental or not for profit organizations;
• Strong change management, results oriented and decision making skills; Aware of and sensitive to working in multi-cultural groups in a post conflict setting  
• Good presentation ,verbal and written communications skills  with Excellent team building and staff development ,coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform
• Knowledge of Arabic language will be added advantage.

This position is open to South Sudanese nationals and women are strongly advised to apply. If you are looking for growth and new challenges and have a passion for improving the Health of disadvantaged communities in Africa, you are welcome to join us. Please quote the above reference number (Ref: 2012/010)and send your application and CV along with copies of your necessary credentials to HRA AMREF South Sudan at Southsudan.recruit@amref.org  or monicahbako@gmail.com  You can submit

directly to the office at the following address- AMREF-South Sudan Country office Opp. UN-OCHA-Juba. Closing date: 28th April 2013.

We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

AMREF is an equal opportunity employer and has a non-smoking environment policy.