Finance & Risk Manager

TO BE SUCCESSFUL YOU'LL NEED:

Knowledge, Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor of commerce- Finance Option
  
• CPA (K) or ACCA
  
• Minimum 10 years working in the finance function with at least 3-5 work experience in managerial roles in finance.
  
• Audit experience will be an added advantage
  
• Experience in operationally – intensive organizations preferred
  
• Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders – both within and outside the organization
  
• High level of Excel proficiency and communication skills
  

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral and written communications skills
  
• Ability to manage and hold confidential information
  
• Very high attention to detail, and ability to handle multiple projects successfully.
  
• Proficient in MS Office 365 applications.
  
• Leadership skills
  

TO BE SUCCESSFUL YOU'LL NEED:

Knowledge, Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor of commerce- Finance Option
  
• CPA (K) or ACCA
  
• Minimum 10 years working in the finance function with at least 3-5 work experience in managerial roles in finance.
  
• Audit experience will be an added advantage
  
• Experience in operationally – intensive organizations preferred
  
• Comfortable working with multiple stakeholders – both within and outside the organization
  
• High level of Excel proficiency and communication skills
  

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral and written communications skills
  
• Ability to manage and hold confidential information
  
• Very high attention to detail, and ability to handle multiple projects successfully.
  
• Proficient in MS Office 365 applications.
  
• Leadership skills
  

Strategic Support

• Supporting the Board and senior leadership team in setting up strategic goals
  
• Continuously reviewing and updating the organizational risk framework and preparing relevant processes, systems, and control to enable effective running of the organization
  
• Coordinate with the global team to align systems, spending policies and procedures
  
• Create control frameworks
  

Budgets & Reporting

• Prepare and Manage the organization’s 5 year budget that aligns with strategic goals
  
• Review monthly country financial reports and consolidate with global financial reports
  
• Monitor expenses against budget, reconciling employees, suppliers, partners or others and record journal entries as well as ensuring timely closing of accounts
  
• Maintenance of a stable financial cash flow through monitoring and forecasts
  
• Ensuring all financial reporting deadlines are met with accurate and timely reporting of financial information.
  

Donor Reporting

• Prepare Donor reports in line with Donor requirements
  
• Develop systems that effectively monitor budget Vs actuals for each Donor
  
• Develop systems and processes that align with Donor requirements
  
• Continually review internal processes to ensure compliance with Donor agreements
  
• Maintaining good working relationships with Donors and all partners
  
• Ensuring all Donor deadlines are met
  
• Prepare and ensure Donor and project audits are conducted in line with Donor requirements and relevant guidelines
  

Operational Support

• Collaborating with other departments to support overall organization goals and objectives.
  
• Providing technical support to partner organizations implementing field activities in line with the partner’s requirements.
  
• Monitoring and analysing departments work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy
  
• Developing and implementation of new procedures and features to enhance the workflow in the organization
  

Audit & Statutory Compliance

• Ensure proper Administration of payroll and all statutory obligations
  
• Oversee annual audits
  
• Prepare checks and balances to ensure statutory compliance across the organization
  
• Work with the accountant to gather source data for internal and external annual audits.
  

Risk & Compliance Management

• Coordinate the creation, review, and implementation of organization policies and develop a risk management strategy
  
• Continuously review and update the organization risk framework
  
• With the support of Program Risk team, ensure adherence to the Generation seven step methodology through continuous quality assurance
  
• With the support of the Operations risk manager, setup systems that will ensure continuous identification,measurement,mitigation,monitoring of all operational and governance Risks
  
• Risk reporting
  
• Evaluation of compliance systems and ensuring adequate systems and processes in place.