The GFFO Regional Finance Coordinator will provide strategic financial leadership, oversight, and stewardship for a multi-country portfolio funded by the German Federal Foreign Office (GFFO) across Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad. The position is responsible for ensuring effective financial management, donor compliance, timely reporting, robust internal controls, and high-quality financial analysis to support program delivery and organizational decision-making.Working closely with Country Office Finance Managers, Program Teams, Grants and Compliance colleagues, consortium members, and headquarters staff, the Regional Finance Coordinator will lead all aspects of financial planning, monitoring, reporting, and compliance for GFFO-funded awards. The role serves as the primary regional finance focal point for the portfolio and is responsible for strengthening financial management capacity across participating country offices and consortium partners.
The position requires a highly skilled finance professional with demonstrated experience managing complex 
humanitarian and development grants in challenging operating environments and coordinating financial management across multiple countries and stakeholder.
 

1- Strategic Financial Leadership, Budget Management, and Portfolio Oversight:

• Provide strategic financial leadership and oversight for all GFFO-funded awards across Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad.
• Lead budget monitoring, forecasting, burn-rate analysis, and financial performance reviews to ensure effective utilization of donor resources.
• Monitor expenditures against approved budgets, implementation plans, donor agreements, and funding pipelines.
• Identify financial risks, spending variances, implementation bottlenecks, and recommend timely mitigation actions to management and program teams.
• Provide senior leadership with financial analysis, scenario planning, and recommendations to support program efficiency, decision-making, and award performance.

2- Multi-Country Financial Coordination, Reporting, and Grant Lifecycle Support:

• Coordinate financial management processes across Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad to ensure consistency, accuracy, and compliance with donor and organizational requirements.
• Work closely with country finance teams to review expenditure trends, cash flow requirements, forecasts, and budget performance.
• Lead the consolidation, review, and timely submission of high-quality donor financial reports in line with GFFO requirements and deadlines.
• Analyze budget variances and provide clear explanations for significant deviations in donor reports and management updates.
• Support proposal budgeting, budget revisions, grant modifications, financial modelling, and close-out processes for GFFO-funded awards.
 

3- Donor Compliance, Internal Controls, Audit Readiness, and Risk Management:

• Serve as the regional finance focal point for GFFO financial compliance matters.
• Ensure compliance with GFFO regulations, donor agreements, CARE policies, internal controls, and applicable local regulations.
• Review transactions and support documentation for allowability, allocability, reasonableness, accuracy, and completeness.
• Strengthen internal control systems to safeguard donor funds and reduce financial compliance risks.
• Coordinate audit preparation, donor reviews, financial monitoring visits, corrective action plans, and follow-up on audit recommendations.

4- Donor Compliance, Internal Controls, and Financial Stewardship:

• Provide financial oversight and technical support to consortium partners, subrecipients, and implementing partners involved in GFFO-funded projects.
• Review partner budgets, financial reports, forecasts, reconciliations, close-out documentation, and support records to ensure compliance and accuracy.
• Conduct or support partner financial capacity assessments and develop risk mitigation and capacity-strengthening plans.
• Build the capacity of finance, grants, program, and partner staff through training, coaching, tools, templates, guidance documents, and standard operating procedures.
• Represent the finance function in award management meetings, regional review forums, donor visits, monitoring missions, and coordination with Grants, Programs, Compliance, Procurement, HR, Operations, HQ, and external stakeholders.

Education:
• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• Professional accounting qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CA, or equivalent strongly preferred.
• Master's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related discipline is an added advantage.

Required Experience:
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in finance and grants management
• Strong financial management, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting skills.
• Sound knowledge of donor compliance and grant financial management.
• Advanced Excel and ERP system proficiency
• Ability to interpret donor regulations and provide operational guidance.

Desired:

• Minimum of 7-10 years of progressively responsible experience in financial management of donor-funded 
humanitarian and development programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing large and complex grants funded by institutional donors.
• Proven experience supporting multi-country, regional, or cross-border programs.
• Experience managing consortium or partnership funding arrangements and subawards.
• Strong familiarity with GFFO regulations and financial compliance requirements strongly preferred.
• Experience operating in humanitarian and fragile contexts, particularly within Africa or the Middle East, is highly desirable.

Skills:

• Strategic thinking and business partnering.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organizational and planning abilities.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work under pressure.
• High level of integrity, accountability, and professional ethics.
• Ability to work effectively in multicultural and geographically dispersed teams.