Medecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care. MdM operating in Nigeria, Borno state since October 2016.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Finance Coordinator (F / M)
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Fixed-term contract
Duration: 6 months
Starting Date: as soon as possible
Employment type: Employee
Description
- Under the supervision of the general coordinator, you will provide leadership and management necessary to ensure that programmatic and operational goals of the country mission are met through appropriate financial infrastructure and systems.
Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities are:
- Strategic financial planning, effective budget and financial management
- Monitor overall budget consumption according to donors’ constraints
- Provide reliable informations on budget consumption and forecast
- Be responsible for financial datas management
- Support the general coordinator on strategic direction
- Take initiatives to build or enhance sound financial management
- Prepare, revise and maintain country mission operating budget
- Work with all departements in preparing and/or revising grant budgets
- Carry out updating of grant pipelines and monthly projections and prepare budget revisions
- Identify and analyse any discrepancy.
Treasury and Accountancy:
- Be responsible for the soft accountancy
- Be responsible for the cash provision and safe management
- Assess the needs for the projects
- Ensure that payments are made in a timely and secure manner
- Be responsible for the update and implementation of the cash management protocols
- Coordinate the closure of monthly accountancy
- Be responsible for all bank transactions.
Audit, Compliance, and Reporting:
- Responsible for the production of financial budget to donors, for the financial issues linked to partnerships, for the compliance of all the accountancy’s documents and for sending financial documents to HQ
- Prepare, organise and supervise audits at field level and provide all documents necessary for external and internal audits
- Ensure the tax payment in time
- Ensure that all legal documents and contracts are timely sent to HQ
- Develop and/or revise and implement country mission-specific financial procedures and guidelines
- Ensure internal financial procedures, systems, policies and controls are applied
- Ensure a harmonized financial organization and accurate transactions
- Prepare financial reports and donor budgets
- Ensure all MdM’s financial activities including payroll, income and other taxes are compliant with Nigerian laws
- Ensure proper archiving.
Team Management:
- Overall responsibility of the finance department including the HR sizing
- Supervise the finance team (recruitment, training, appraisals, capacity building)
Coordination, Partnership and Capacity Building:
- Coordinate closely with the HR coordinator on all HR matters
- Participate to the monthly grants review meeting
- Organise BFF meeting on a monthly basis
- Ensure when needed and by delegation of the general coordinator the representation of MdM in front of donors
- Liaise with INGO finance directors in-country
- Ensure the proper e-archiving of the partners financial reports and accountancy
- Provide strong oversight and capacity building to MdM local partner.
Condition of Employment
- Gross monthly salary: 3119 euros
- A premium equal to one month salary paid in two instalments – minimum of 6 months seniority required
- Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
- Transportation cost, vaccines and visas covered
- Guesthouse housing
- 22.5 recovery days per year
- 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
- Health insurance (60% covered by MdM and 40% by the employee)
- Insurance (repatriation…)
- Teleworking agreement for positions eligible to telework: 110 days/year (2.5 days teleworking on average per week) with a minimum of 1 day per week onsite
- Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
- As part of our measures to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism, any selected candidate may be subject to a background check on international sanctions lists (UN, the EU, France, the United States. This information is handled confidentially and stored on a secure server.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related courses.
- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in this field, preferably in an international NGO with multi-donor budgets.
- Demonstrated team management skills in a multicultural working environment
- Training and capacity-building experience.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills, cross-group collaboration compliance, proactive and innovative approach.
- Strategic thinker with excellent good problem-solving, decision making and follow-up skills.
- Excellent multi-tasking, organized, and hands-on experience with high achievement.
- Considerate and deliberate in dealing with people with good negotiation skills
- Deadline-oriented and excellent service mind.
- Ability to work in unstable and volatile environments as well as conduct regular field monitoring visits.
- Very strong proficiency in Excel.
- Knowledge in SAGA would be an asset.
- Languages: English: fluent (oral and written) Hawsa or Arabic or Kanuri is an asset.
- You embrace the core values and support the proactive philosophy of Médecins du Monde.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
