International Alert is currently looking for 2 Finance Officers to handle all aspects of financial, operational and administrative management of Alert’s office in the assigned region.
Location: Kaduna/Zamfara/Benue/Sokoto
Career category: Administration/Finance
Years of experience: 3-4 years
Role duties and responsibilities:
Manage the finance, administration and Operations procedures of Alert offices
- Ensure total compliance with Alert policies, donor regulations, and national law in all finance, administration processes
- Prepare fund requests for Alert office running costs and service providers in a timely manner
- Review all staff activity and travel expenditure requests and advance retirements for processing
- Maintain the petty cash of the office assigned
- Thoroughly review all partner financial reports and ensure collaboration with project manager for coherence between workplan and expenses reported
- Prepare and submit monthly financial report and documents to the country office
- Ensure value for money, transparency, and compliance in all expenditure and ensure that records are properly filed
- Identify and immediately report all concerns about financial or operational mismanagement/non-compliance by staff, partners or any other associates.
- Ensure that procurement procedures are conducted transparently and with adherence to Alert and donor policy. Conduct due diligence on suppliers and partners.
- Conduct spot-checks of activities and partner offices to review compliance and value for money
- Ensure quarterly update of inventory
- Ensure smooth financial and operational start-up of the new grants
- Support project managers in preparing partner budgets and fund requests and in general grant management
- Actively participate in monthly budget monitoring meetings.
- Support in Project audits, Internal audits and statutory audits.
Supervise and Manage performance of office staff
- Line manage staff under supervision, in line with Alert’s performance management policy (PMP).
- Ensure the work of the staff under supervision is conducted with quality and in compliance by ensuring adequate onboarding and coaching
- Develop capacity building plan for supervisees.
Support other sub-offices in financial and operational matters
- Liaise with suppliers/service providers in the region to support procurement and operational processes for Alert office
- Organise logistical arrangements for staff travelling interstates for official purposes
- Review, approve and support procurement processes within level of authority (see Finance and Procurement manuals)
- Conduct audits and spot-checks of implementing partners
- Support establishment of new sub-offices (identification of space, procurement, contracting, security assessments, etc.
Please note that the above are just some of the requirements of the job. For the full job requirements, please click here to read the job description.
How to apply
Please follow this link to apply.
The closing date for all applications is the 2nd of February, 2023. We reserve the right to close applications early.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
All applicants must have existing right to work in Nigeria.
While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, you can assume your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.
International Alert is an equal opportunities employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Please note – this Job opening is subject to funding source of the position.
