Finance Technical officer Palestine Gaza

Ensure adherence with policies and implement financial functions effectively.

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Overview

Ensure adherence with policies and implement financial functions effectively.

You have:

  • Minimum 4 years of experience working in a financial position in a humanitarian/recovery context.
  • Fluency in Arabic and English, both written and verbal.
  • Solid knowledge of computer software and modern accounting systems.
  • Experience with multiple humanitarian donors and specifically their budgeting and reporting requirements.
  • Qualification requirement: BA in Accounting or related field.
  • Handling insecure environment.
  • Planning and delivering results.
  • Empowering and building trust.
  • Communicating with impact and respect.

Generic responsibilities

  1. Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines.
  2. Implement the delegated support function portfolio according to the plan of action.
  3. Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.
  4. Ensure proper filing of documents.
  5. Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function.
  6. Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards & principles within NRC and amongst beneficiaries served by NRC.
  7. Contribute to the implementation of Safe and Inclusive Programming Minimum Standards across your area of work

Qualifications

  1. Competencies

1. Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies:

  • Minimum 4 years of experience working in a financial position in a humanitarian/recovery context.
  • Previous experience working in complex and volatile contexts.
  • Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
  • Fluency in Arabic and English, both written and verbal
  • Solid knowledge of computer software and modern accounting systems
  • Experience with multiple humanitarian donors and specifically their budgeting and reporting requirements

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

  • Qualification requirement: BA in Accounting or related field.
  • Years of Experience: 4.

2. Behavioural competencies (max 6)

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their jobs. The following are essential for this position:

  • Handling insecure environment
  • Planning and delivering results
  • Empowering and building trust
  • Communicating with impact and respect

Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities

  • Participate in preparing the Master Budget of the Gaza Area office
  • Participate in preparing new Donor Budgets, Budget revisions, Budget vs Actual, and financial reports using NRC tools.
  • Ensure regular update of the Master budget that will serve as a guide for all new donor proposals.
  • Participate in preparing monthly shared allocations.
  • Day-to-day follow-up of progress regarding projects implementation.
  • Participate in reviewing PRs and advise on charge codes.
  • Ensure compliance of actual expenditures with budgets.
  • Ensure compliance with Donors’ regulations
  • Participate in ensuring proper filing of all financial documents.
  • Conducting regular training sessions on budget management to program, support, and finance staff.

Critical interfaces

By interfaces, NRC means processes and projects that are interlinked with other departments/units or persons. Relevant interfaces for this position are:

  • Budget holders
  • Relevant implementation staff
  • Auditors (internal/external)

Scale and scope of position

Stakeholders: Stakeholders: UN agencies, INGOs, local NGOs Budgets: All NRC budgets Information: Agresso

Potential interview questions

How have you managed financial responsibilities in a humanitarian context? To understand your experience in challenging environments. Provide specific examples of your roles and the impact of your decisions.
Describe a time when you had to deal with budget discrepancies. To assess your problem-solving skills in financial management. Pro members can see the explanation.
How do you ensure compliance with donor regulations? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Can you provide an example of how you led training sessions for staff? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
What is your experience with preparing and managing budgets? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Describe your experience working in multi-stakeholder environments. Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
How do you handle working under pressure in an insecure environment? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Can you explain a time when you had to communicate difficult news? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Added 10 months ago - Updated 9 months ago - Source: nrc.no