Job Summary
To Lead, manage and co-ordinate all aspects of the Programme’s Financial Management, ensuring control and compliance in line with client, corporate and programme quality standards.
Minimum Qualification:Bachelor
Experience Level:Senior level
Experience Length:5 years
Job Description/Requirements
Location:
Nairobi, Sub Saharan Africa, KE
Company:
British Council
The
British Council builds connections, understanding and trust between
people in the UK and other countries through arts and culture, education
and the English language. We work in two ways – directly with
individuals to transform their lives, and with governments and partners
to make a bigger difference for the longer term, creating benefit for
millions of people all over the world. We help young people to gain the
skills, confidence and connections they are looking for to realise their
potential and to participate in strong and inclusive communities. We
support them to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to
gain internationally recognised qualifications. Our work in arts and
culture stimulates creative expression and exchange and nurtures
creative enterprise. We connect the best of the UK with the world and
the best of the world with the UK. These connections lead to an
understanding of each other's strengths and of the challenges and values
that we share. This builds trust between people in the UK and other
nations which endures even when official relations may be strained. We
work on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2019-20 we connected
with 80 million people directly and with 791 million overall, including
online and through our broadcasts and publications.
Pay band:6 (Locally engaged)
Alternative locations the role could be based: Nairobi, Kenya
Department:Finance
Contract type:Fixed Term
Duration:Three Years
Role Purpose
To
Lead, manage and co-ordinate all aspects of the Programme’s Financial
Management, ensuring control and compliance in line with client,
corporate and programme quality standards. S/he will ensure that value
for money is enshrined across the Programme and with its partners. The
role will ensure that finance-related activities are established and
delivered to the required standards to enable successful project
delivery.
Challenges & Accountabilities
The
ideal candidate will join the Kenya Team to offer project finance and
compliance lead as required for our Grants Programmes, and should have
experience in
project finance reporting, experience delivering accurate and realistic
financial plans, forecasts and budgets. You will be accountable
to provide financial support to the programme team to ensure an
effective delivery of programmes across East Africa. You will also be
responsible for managing the financial month-end process to ensure
consistent, accurate and robust financial accounting for the British
Council and client. In addition to this, the ideal candidate will lead
on financial planning, (re)forecasting, cash flow, reporting and
analysis to ensure accurate, timely and complete financial management of
the project/contract budget on SAP. He/she will evaluate the financial
performance of the project regularly, together with the Project Board,
partner organisations and Regional Finance Team; oversee financial
procedures and payments with partners, suppliers/vendors and
consultants. Provide
training, support and advice to delivery teams on all finance-related
issues and tasks. You will supervise, review and ensure delivery team
familiarity with contract- and/or client-specific financial requirements
and how these can be delivered through British Council procedures. Ensure
all systems and documents developed are in full compliance with British
Council corporate standards and country legal and financial
requirements.
Also, you will manage internal and external requests for financial information. Establish
and maintain a contract budget monitoring tool to enable accurate
monitoring and reconciliation against the contract budget, to provide
commercial forecasts, to respond to British Council and client requests
and to ensure that the programme budget is not overspent, Part of the
responsibilities will be to lead on monthly monitoring and
reconciliation of project/contract budgets and work with project team to
identify and report risks and issues. Ensure
all project activity is financially compliant (both corporately and
according to the contract), cost-effective, delivers value for money and
meets British Council and client requirements; and ensure due diligence
checks on partner organisation financial management processes,
procedures and controls as needed. As
with any business that experiences peaks and troughs of activity, there
is likely to be a need to work outside office hours from time to time.
Essential Requirements
The successful candidate will need to possess the following requirements:
A university degree in Finance, Accounting or similar discipline.
Experience in comparable role(s) including working on donor funded development projects / programmes.
Qualified accountant – ACCA or CFA – with at least 5 years post-qualification experience
Experience of an ERP system.
Previous experience in managing and leading staff
Ability
to explain and support the implementation of stringent financial
requirements to multi-disciplinary internal staff and external partners
(steering committee, clients, grantees, consortium partners, hub
delivery teams)
Experience
of overseeing, supporting and significantly improving financial
management capability and performance of individuals and teams outside
of formal / direct line management control.
Desirable requirements
A postgraduate degree in Finance, Accounting or similar discipline.
Experience of financial management of EU contracts
Experience working with
Additional Information: Role holder must have existing rights to live and work in the country the role is based.
Closing Date 17 January 2021applications will close 23:59 Nigeria Time
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