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Job Description

Job Purpose

Finance Manager will lead to ensuring timely, high quality, and reliable financial information and analysis are readily available to inform program decision making. Within this remit, specific requirements will include: budget management and tracking spending; generating up to date and timely financial monitoring reports and flagging analysis to identify and project potential under/overspending; ensure timely preparation of financial reports and documents for WCUK HQ and donors; participate in strategic planning and decision making under the guidance of the CD.

Financial Management & Administration

• Lead on all financial management, reporting, and planning across the Afghanistan program;
• Advice and support the HoSS in designing and implementing appropriate financial controls and budget management mechanisms, including tools for tracking and analyzing spending across multiple grants;
• Ensure compliance and timeliness of financial reports for WCUK and donors;
• Provide Support to HoSS in contributing to the development of finance strategy, country annual plans, with specific reference to finance;
• Lead on financial risk and coverage analysis to inform strategic decision making;
• Monitor and coordinate compliance with financial policies, procedures, and practices in all WCUK Afghanistan projects;
• Timely development of Afghanistan monthly financial reports and budget versus actual (BVA) analysis for SMT and program teams joint review;
• Management of WCUK Afghanistan cash flow and bank accounts in Afghanistan including deposits; online processing; withdrawals; and bank reconciliations;
• Lead on budget development and financial aspects of proposal development; 
• Lead on all financial reporting for WCUK, donors, and auditors.
• Manage all audit processes, including statutory, donor, internal;
• Ensure War Child remains compliant with all in-country regulations. 

Capacity building staff & local partners

• Build capacity of the finance staff in the country office through on-the-job training, mentoring, coaching as well as training and workshops;
• Contribute to the designing and implementation of capacity building initiatives for WCUK partners as part of organizational development commitments
• Build the capacity of local partners in finance/logistics

Management of staff

• Supervise all finance staff in Afghanistan, including all HR requirements, regular team meetings, one-to-one meetings, etc.
• Lead on development plans for all finance staff in Afghanistan and actively develop best practices in all projects through training; coaching and mentoring;
• Contribute to creating a culture committed to the safeguarding of children and adults and compliant to War Child’s Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk Policies. 

Overall

• Advice and support the HoSS on the above subjects.
• Update relevant support team members at HQ about developments in Finance.

Our Values

 Bold

• We use our passion and creativity to deliver high quality evidence-based work designed to maximize our beneficial impact for children in conflict.

Accountable to Children:

• Children can rely on us to respond to their voices and to treat them with respect and dignity.

Transparent:

• We expect to be held to account by our supporters and beneficiaries and we respond with openness and honesty.

Committed to each other:

We support each other and our partners to achieve ambitious goals and to the best we can be we are honest and open with each other, sharing our success and confronting our challenges

Skills Required

• Flexible and can work under pressure.
• Fluency in Pashto&Dari
• team player
• Ability to manage multiple tasks

Submission Guideline:

How to apply

• Please go to this link: https://airtable.com/shrIK6oMxoS4Z0maE, fill in your information and attach your documents before the closing date - (06-Dec-2022).
• Applications after closing date will not be accepted.
• Please note that there is no telephonic inquiry and only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for written test/interview.

Child safeguarding and Adults at Risk

Our work with children and at-risk adults to keep them safe is the most important thing we do. We are committed to the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults in all areas of our work. We have zero tolerance for any behaviours and practices that puts children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse and/or harm. Successful applicants will be expected to be compliant and sign up to our Child Safeguarding policy, our Code of Conduct and PSEA: Adults at Risk Policy. You can find the Child Safeguarding and Adults at Risk policy here: Child Safeguarding

Pre-employment checks

• Employment with War Child will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a International/National Criminal Record Check, and a clear vetting and Due Diligence check

• receipt of three satisfactory references

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