Head of Finance NORCAP

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 10 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 10 (NRC) contracts.

Are you an experienced Finance manager ready to apply your skills where it matters the most?

As part of the Norwegian Refugee Council, NORCAP solves challenges in the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding sectors in order to better protect lives and rights of people in vulnerable situations. We build partnerships, promote more effective ways of working and provide skilled experts to develop capacity. Since 1991 NORCAP has provided expertise to approximately 10,000 missions across the globe.

We work with and through our partners to address challenges via three core activities:

• We develop partnerships with regional and global organisations and national stakeholders. We believe working together in a coordinated and sustainable manner is the best way to reduce needs, risks, and vulnerability over time.
• We seek and promote more effective ways of working at the global level and in the field. Our aim is not only to reduce needs, but also to create choice and opportunity for vulnerable people.
• We deploy skilled experts to develop our partner's capacity. Given their independence from agendas and interests of the organisations they are deployed to, our experts are well placed to identify and address challenges, improve collaboration, and encourage new and innovative approaches.

The Finance Unit in NORCAP is responsible for providing a range of financial support to the department (NORCAP), including budgeting, reporting, forecasting, cash flow, advising on financial management and ensuring compliance with NRC policies and external regulations. The Head of Finance NORCAP is responsible for managing the NORCAP finance unit and you will be reporting directly to the Director of the Governance and Finance section.

The Head of Unit is responsible for managing the work done by the finance staff in NORCAP, including regular financial forecasts, budgeting, reporting and auditing.

We are searching for candidates with:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as Finance Advisor/Expert/Controller or similar positions within the humanitarian field.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities including leadership skills and experiences
• Relevant academic background, including qualifications in a relevant field (e.g. accounting, MBA or similar).
• Knowledge of concepts, practices and procedures in relation to accounting, financial controls, related legal and regulatory contexts, financial management and financial accounting systems.
• Strong budgeting and financial reporting skills.
• Ability to provide financial management advice and guidance to colleagues, including undertaking internal checks and financial audits of projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Financial Head of Unit (NORCAP) is accountable/responsible for:

Generic:

• Overall leadership, line management and budget responsibility for the NORCAP Finance Unit.
• Develop effective teams and strengthen cross-sectional collaboration and culture.
• Implementation of Performance Management as a staff development tool.
• Develop, follow up and report on strategy and action plans in line with NORCAP strategic direction and governance system.
• Ensure compliance with NRC and NORCAP’s policies, procedures and branding and represent NORCAP accordingly.
• Ensure compliance with Grants management requirements and quality standards.
• Perform other duties in the department as appropriate.

Specific:

• Responsible for overall financial control of the NORCAP budget, including monitoring of cash flows.
• Ensure budgeting, accounting, year-end procedures.
• Monitor financial management and anti-corruption work within the area of responsibility to ensure compliance and that NRC’s manuals and regulations are followed to secure financial control and overview
• Responsible for capacity building through financial training, support and advise to NORCAP
• Responsible for providing financial guidance and support in the development of new projects and applications; This might require new ways of financial system and follow-up
• Development of internal and external financial routines and procedures.
• Ensure of appropriate data and analysis for decision-making.
• Responsible for financial analysis to the NORCAP Management Team, the Director of Governance and Finance (NORCAP) and other stakeholders
• Participating in negotiations with partners/donors on financial matters

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated in what we do
• To be innovative with our solutions
• To act as one unified and inclusive team
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the people we exist to serve, and to each other

What makes this position attractive?

• A strongly committed, challenging, and international work environment in a large, world-renowned humanitarian organisation
• An opportunity to work with highly competent colleagues, develop your own skills in an international context while contributing to further professionalise our procedures
• A full-time, permanent position at our Head Office in modern locations in central Oslo

• Salary by agreement, good pension, and insurance schemes.

  Please note:

• This position is located in Oslo, Norway. Candidates, therefore, need to either be Norwegian nationals or have the legal right to work in Norway.

• For more information about the role, please contact Director Governance and Finance NORCAP, Monica Mee, mob +47 90722251 / monica.mee@nrc.no
• You can also write to [email protected] with the "Job Title" as a subject.