Avis à candidature pour le recrutement d’un Directeur des finances et de l’administration à Addis Abeba, Ethiopie.

 

 

 

 

 

Responsibilities

  • Ensure accurate financial, contractual and administrative reporting of the project compliant with Jhpiego and USAID’s rules and regulations, and terms and conditions of the award
  • Oversee day-to-day coordination of financial activities ensuring cost efficiency
  • Maintain and administer an on-site financial accounting and bookkeeping system (QuickBooks) required to assure the integrity and effective performance of financial operations and prepare monthly reports
  • Manage all sub-grants, ensuring compliance and reporting of sub-awardee, and building their capacity as needed
  • Ensure that Jhpiego human resources and administrative procedures are in place for the project and ensure compliance including time keeping, leave tracking, sick days, absence, personnel employment records, and other personnel actions
  • Oversee project’s day-to-day cash needs, payments, procurement, contracts, sub-grants, reviewing/processing invoices, district office start-up, operation systems, policies and procedures, consultant payments
  • Provide guidance, monitoring and support to project team, including procurement of goods and services, logistical support for local and international travels (including expense reports) for staff and consultants, contracts development and management and maintenance of office inventory
  • Facilitate external audit activities and ensure that financial records are properly maintained and readily available during audits
  • Direct and oversee the monitoring and annual auditing of cost-share requirements, tracking and reporting
  • Contribute to developing work plans and annual budgets for project activities and local office costs
  • Ensure that USAID’s resources are appropriately directed to project priorities and are in line with project work plans
  • Provide financial reports, including pipeline analysis and quarterly project reports as requested by the donor
  • Mentor, support, and manage a team of highly qualified staff and align their efforts in concert with project goals to ensure rapid and sustainable results

Required Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in business administration, public administration, accounting, finance, or other related fields
  • At least nine (9) years of experience with financial planning, monitoring of subcontract compliance and management and the establishment of internal controls
  • At least five (5) years of experience with USAID or other donor-funded projects in developing countries with senior-level responsibility for administration and finance
  • Knowledge of USG cost principles, including USAID regulations, GAAP accounting rules and grants and contracts management
  • Demonstrated experience in subcontract or sub agreement financial management
  • Experience developing and/or implementing finance and accounting policies, procedures and systems
  • Demonstrated experience organizing resources and establishing priorities
  • In depth knowledge financial software applications, databases, and spreadsheets, including QuickBooks Enterprise, and Microsoft Office
  • Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and sustain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID missions, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs, the private sector and other donors
  • Excellent skills in facilitation, team building, and coordination
  • Excellent communication skills and fluent in written and spoken English, any other local languages
  • Ability to travel nationally security permitting.

Closing date : October 25th, 2023

Application process