The Finance Coordinator is the most Senior Finance person within the field office with the responsibility of ensuring that SCI policies systems and procedures are implemented within the different field offices and project areas that fall under the jurisdiction of that area office. The position holder ensures that there are strong financial controls, and that risk is minimized. They form part of the field office Senior team and provide the link between the field office's finance function and the Country office.

In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and be able to vary working hours accordingly.

• Provide oversight into the operations of the field office.
• Take appropriate steps to minimize the risk of fraud or theft. 
• Maintain the accounting system and support budget holders with coding, reporting and analysis. 
• Checking day-to-day field financial documents and ensuring sufficient supporting documents before paying within the level in coordination and follow-up with the area finance manager
• Posting to the Agresso finance system complete documents and report within the field level in contact with the area finance manager. 
• Coordinate with the finance manager and other finance team in the area to ensure delivery of monthly reports, adequate cash flow, month-end and year-end procedures.
• Completion and follow-up on action points from monthly checklist reviews in coordination with the area finance manager, 
• Support in closing accounts at the end of the month and financial year. 
• Make sure that all donor's and members' compliance have been implemented. 
• Provide budget monitoring information in contact with the finance manager for the field implementation Manager and other budget holders. 
• Prepare financial reports and other required reports by donors and members within the level, 
• Oversee banking arrangements within the field.

Partnership support 

• Support in partner assessments, kick-off meetings and monitoring visits.
• Review partner budgets and financial reports.
• Conduct regular reviews of financial support documents to reflect the reported amounts in financial and narrative reports.
• Develop and ensure adherence to compliance checklist for partners under SCI and donor requirements.

Budget Support

• Maintain the Master budget for the Port Sudan field Office and input it into the RoS area Offices' Master budget. 
• Conduct field Office level monthly BvA meetings with Budget Holders and follow up. 
• implementation of the action points 
• Produce the necessary financial reports as per the donor requirements. 
• Collaborate with the area finance manager and the teams to ensure audit reports for all awards. 
• are done promptly. 
• Ensure the field office is compliant at all times with the donor requirements. 
• Support field Team on KPI II, I performance and shared weekly spend analysis with HPI and DDPO.
• Capacity Building
• Train and mentor Finance Staff 
• Conduct training on financial management and budgeting for Budget Holders and Finance staff.
• Induct new staff on SCI Sudan Procedures.

People Management, Mentoring and Development

Child Safeguarding

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or a related field.
• Qualified/part-qualified professional accountant (internationally recognized qualification, practical experience equivalent will be considered) with substantial post-qualification accounting experience.
• Experience and well-developed skills in staff management, supervision and capacity building.
• Proven track record of supporting a management team. 
• Knowledge of the requirements of the major emergency and development donors and experience in budgeting and reporting to donors.
• Good attention to detail and analytical skills
• Computer literate (i.e. WORD, advanced Excel, Outlook, Internet Explorer, financial systems)
• Patient, adaptable, flexible, able to improvise and remain responsive and communicate clearly and effectively under pressure.
• Excellent planning, management and coordination skills, with the ability to organize a workload comprised of varying and changing tasks and responsibilities.
• Strong communication (written and spoken), and interpersonal skills in English, with experience in managing multicultural teams.
• Experience with any Save the Children financial systems and overseas accounting software (Agresso)
• Fluent in English and Arabic 

Females are highly encouraged to apply.

Kindly apply through the below link. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for next steps. The closing date will be on 02/04/2024. Any application after this date will not be considered. All interviews will be done in the Save the Children office or remotely.

Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents. SCI will be undertaking child safeguarding checks for all candidates. The selected candidate will be asked to provide a police check before signing the contract.