Finance Manager, DRC

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Job Description

Position:  Finance Manager, DRC

Department: Finance

Report to: Country Director

Location:  Kinshasa, DRC

Closing date: 10th February 2023 at 23:59 GMT

Role overview

The Finance Manager will provide financial oversight and support to the staff and partners in the country. The role will be responsible for monitoring financial management and performance of all programs/projects/sub-units and partners in the country, ensuring compliance with global standards, systems and processes, and law of land as well as donors’ rules on financial management. The role will also provide strategic financial support to the Country SMT in strategic planning, reporting, analysis, and risk management.

Who we're looking for:

You should be in possession of Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting Management.  A Master’s degree or professional Accounting or Financial Management would be an added advantage. You should be a member of a reputable Professional Accountancy body such as ACCA, CIMA, CPA. You should have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in position of senior financial management or accounting, preferably in the NGO sector. You should have experience in preparing and analysing financial reports and plans and drawing insight for use by management and different donors. You should have practical application, and knowledge of GAAP, strong financial expertise and familiarity in management and accounting and sound practical knowledge of accounting systems (preferably SUN) and use of spreadsheets.

What we offer

ActionAid is committed to providing a welcoming, supportive workplace where we recognise a job well done. Offering a fair compensation package and a flexible working environment. At ActionAid, you can look forward to

• Fantastic training and development opportunities
• A workplace that embraces intersectional feminist principles
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption pay.

How to apply

Please click on the "apply" button to start the application process. Please upload an up-to-date CV and a covering letter, clearly explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile. Applications close on 10th February 2023 at 23:59 GMT.

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application as unsuccessful.

ActionAid International will not consider unsolicited candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

About us

ActionAid is a global federation working with over 25 million people in more than 45 countries for a world free from poverty and injustice. We want to see a just, fair and sustainable world, in which everybody enjoys the right to a life of dignity, and freedom from poverty and oppression. We work to achieve social justice and gender equality, and to eradicate poverty. All our work is underpinned by a set of feminist leadership principles:

Self-awareness, Self-care and caring for others, Dismantling bias, Inclusion, Sharing power, Responsible & transparent use of power, Accountable collaboration, Respectful feedback, Courage and Zero tolerance.

Our commitment to Safeguarding

ActionAid is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. We are also committed to preventing and responding to any form of sexual harassment, exploitation and child abuse and abuse of adults at-risk, whether carried out by staff/representatives or resulting from our work. ActionAid expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.