Finance Manager Partnerships

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Review of all partner financial reports at main office and ensure posting of the same in financial management system.
• Support the Organizational Capacity Assessment process, ensuring all partners are able to meet funding requirements of SCI and back donors if requires
• Ensure capacity gaps and weaknesses are identified and work with key stakeholders to ensure appropriate mitigation measures are in place
• Work with partnership team to ensure that organizational development plans are in place, and take a leading role in all capacity building for partners in financial systems and process
• Regular visits to partners to provide guidance and mechanism to develop and maintain a robust financial system, controls to ensure efficiency, reliability and transparency of financial data i accordance with SCI guidelines;
• Conduct regular trainings of partners on financial management.
• Responsible for preparing tracker of partner financial reports and maintaining fund status.
• Ensuring partner reports are received timely, reviewed and posted on system on timely basis.
• Responsible for partner expenses forecast each month and ensuring sufficient funds are available with partners to conduct activities.
• Support Head of Treasury in main office for transfer of funds to partners in line with SCI policies.
• Responsible for review of partner proposal budgets and amendments ensuring internal sign-off process is followed.
• Ensuring SGAs are reviewed in line with organizational policy prior to signature as per SOD.
• Represent Finance department in the BvA meetings while ensuring that actions are addressed after BvA meetings.
• Providing support to Finance director in preparation of Master budget, and forecast processes.
• Providing support to Finance director on Funding GAP analysis and other management reporting.
• Drafting the staff allocation for staff and ensuring allocations are provided to Finance manager in
• Country office for clearance of balance sheets holding accounts.
• Review the reclassifications proposed by program staff for eligibility in line with donor regulations and in line with SCI Financial policies.
• Responsible for the timely and complete preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual donor and SCI financial reports in accordance with Save the Children policies and guidelines.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
• Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Works collaboratively to achieve shared goals and thrives on diversity of people and perspectives; knows when to lead and when to follow and how to ensure effective cross-boundary working.
• Communicates clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust.
• Invests time and energy to actively develop self and others to help realise their full potential, and to build the organisation’s capability for the future.

Creativity:

• Applies the required technical and professional expertise to the highest standards; promotes and shares best practice within and outside the organization.
• Develops and implements innovative solutions to adapt and succeed in ever-changing and uncertain global and working environments.
• Takes effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating relevant information from within or outside the organization.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence.
• Displays consistent excellent judgement.