Regional Finance Manager

Who We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Public Financial Management, or a closely related quantitative discipline.
  
• A master’s degree or professional accountancy qualification, such as ACA, ACCA, CPA, or CIMA, is an added advantage.
  
• Additional training in EU grant management, DG ECHO financial compliance, or humanitarian financial management is strongly preferred.
  
• Minimum seven years of financial management experience within an international humanitarian or development organization.
  
• At least three years of experience in a senior regional or multi-country finance role with responsibility for complex institutional donor grants.
  
• Demonstrated hands-on experience managing DG ECHO-funded programs, including budgeting, financial reporting, compliance monitoring, sub-grant oversight, audit preparation, and closeout.
  
• Expert knowledge of DG ECHO General Conditions, eligible-cost requirements, PRAG provisions, procurement rules, and expenditure-verification standards.
  
• Proven experience managing multi-partner financial arrangements involving intergovernmental institutions, international NGOs, local organizations, and multiple country offices.
  
• Experience managing financial compliance in Somalia, including hawala documentation, mobile-money systems, or comparable payment environments, is a significant advantage.
  
• Strong experience in financial forecasting, Budget Versus Actual analysis, cash-flow planning, multi-currency accounting, risk management, and donor reporting.
  
• Advanced proficiency in SAGA or comparable NGO accounting software, along with expert-level Microsoft Excel skills.
  
• Experience using DG ECHO reporting systems, including eSF and APPEL, is strongly preferred.
  
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex financial information and provide concise, decision-focused guidance to senior leaders and non-finance colleagues.
  
• Strong experience building the financial-management capacity of country teams, local partners, and intergovernmental organizations.
  
• Excellent communication, coordination, analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
  
• Full professional fluency in written and spoken English is required. Working knowledge of French, Somali, or Amharic is an advantage.
  
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 30%–40% of working time across program countries, including travel to challenging or high-risk environments.
  

• Provide overall financial oversight for the consolidated program budget across Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, South Sudan, and the regional component.
  
• Maintain an accurate master budget with clear visibility of expenditure, commitments, forecasts, and available balances by country, result area, budget line, and implementing partner.
  
• Develop quarterly multi-country cash-flow forecasts and consolidated monthly Budget Versus Actual reports, including analysis of burn rates, variances, financial risks, and recommended corrective actions.
  
• Lead financial preparedness for Crisis Modifier activations, including rapid budget realignment, emergency cash disbursement planning, partner financing, expenditure tracking, and post-activation reconciliation.
  
• Advise program leadership on eligible costs, budget flexibility, exchange-rate exposure, underspending, cost overruns, liquidity, and partner disbursement risks.
  
• Serve as the primary financial reporting lead for the DG ECHO grant, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and timely submission of interim, mid-term, final, and amendment-related financial reports.
  
• Prepare complete donor reporting and audit documentation packages, including expenditure schedules, procurement records, source documents, partner financial statements, and cost-allocation explanations.
  
• Maintain program-wide audit readiness and coordinate internal audits, DG ECHO expenditure-verification exercises, auditor requests, and implementation of audit recommendations.
  
• Manage financial aspects of grant amendments, budget revisions, no-cost extensions, reporting-period changes, and formal donor financial communications.
  
• Develop and enforce consistent financial reporting standards, templates, controls, and submission timelines across all country teams and implementing partners.
  
• Oversee financial due diligence, sub-grant agreements, disbursement schedules, financial reporting, expenditure verification, and capacity strengthening for IGAD, ICPAC, PAPDA, and SCAP.
  
• Coordinate Action Against Hunger’s financial obligations within the FAO South Sudan consortium component, ensuring alignment with both FAO and DG ECHO requirements.
  
• Establish and maintain strong internal controls, including segregation of duties, authorization matrices, payment verification, bank reconciliation, cash management, and anti-fraud measures.
  
• Ensure appropriate financial controls for Somalia’s operating context, including hawala transfers, mobile-money payments, exchange-rate management, and Financial Service Provider documentation.
  
• Oversee multi-currency accounting, payroll and staff-cost allocation, fixed assets, tax compliance, VAT exemptions, withholding taxes, and other statutory obligations.
  
• Conduct financial monitoring visits, partner spot checks, compliance reviews, and audit-preparation support across program countries and partner offices.
  
• Develop and maintain the program Financial Risk Register and ensure fraud, corruption, compliance, exchange-rate, partner, and liquidity risks are actively monitored and mitigated.
  
• Provide financial dashboards, commitment trackers, forecasts, and partner status summaries to support consortium governance and management decisions.
  
• Lead the financial closeout process, including final reconciliation, partner closeout, expenditure verification, asset disposal, donor submissions, and record archiving.
  
• Provide functional guidance, mentoring, and professional development support to country finance officers and partner finance teams.