KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Strategic financial information and monitoring
- Provide strategic finance support to the Emergency Management Team and Save the Children members as part of the response SMT: Master Budget development and monitoring in coordination with Awards team, and advice on how to best to utilize a program is funding portfolio.
- Provide a high standard of financial accounting management, ensuring compliance to local statutory law and donors regulations and consistent with Save the Children accounting policies, procedures and tools.
- Ensure that Save the Children’s commitment to improving quality and accountability in humanitarian work is upheld, through reference to the Sphere Project Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards, the NGO Code of Conduct, and other relevant tools.
Cost recovery and budgeting
- Ensure preparation of donor financial reports and proposal budgets
- Ensure full cost recovery is achieved (through strategic financial management and proposal budget development)
- Ensure all donor financial compliance requirements are complied with and reports are prepared on time with complete audit trial.
Internal Controls
- Ensure that at all stages of the response the control framework of the operation is consistent with the situation and ensure that necessary risks are taken knowingly with appropriate mitigating actions.
- Monitor coding of emergency expenditures and ensure timely adjustments when activation of new awards with relevant audit trail
- Support Cash Transfer programming activities from feasibility assessment to implementation, and ensure accountability by enforcing adequate controls
- Identify, assess, input, recommend on the existing and desired reconciliation process (reporting assurance mechanism) between Finance, Procurement, Logistics, Distribution, M&E that will ensure accountable reporting to donors on all humanitarian inputs (items delivered to beneficiaries).
Cash flow
- Ensure access to cash for new areas of operations by establishing effective banking arrangements or by ensuring safe cash in transit alternatives through implementation of emergency cash management guidelines
Resources and capacity building
- Assess new partner financial capacity and provide financial capacity building when relevant
- Assess finance surge staff requirements and structure in coordination with existing CO and RO finance team
- Recruit, train and manage finance staff and/or work closely with existing finance staff.
- Ensure that all new staff recruited into the response are adequately inducted in Save the Children emergencies and financial systems
- Strengthen the non-finance staff knowledge and capacity to manage finance by providing, induction, training and coaching consistent with their various roles and responsibilities.
General:
- Comply with Save the Children policies and practice with respect to child safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, equal opportunities and other relevant policies and procedures.
COMPETENCIES FOR THIS ROLE:
Delivering Results
Takes personal responsibilities and holds others accountable for delivering our ambitious goals for children, continually improving their own performance or that of the team/organization.
Networking
Builds and uses sustainable relationships and networks to support the work of Save the Children with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
Communicating with Impact
Communicates clearly and confidently with others to engage and influence; promotes dialogue and ensures timely and appropriate messages, building confidence and trust.
Problem solving and Decision Making
Takes effective, considered and timely decisions by gathering and evaluating relevant information from within or outside the organization.