Vacancy Announcement - Senior Donor Accountant
Concern Worldwide is an international non-governmental humanitarian organization dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for the following position:
Job Title: Senior Donor Accountant
Reports to: Country Financial Controller (CFC)
Liaises with:Internally – Country Management Team, Programme Coordinators/Grant Owners/Managers, Finance, Admin & HR and Logistics teams.
Externally – Partners’ staff and management, Consortium leads, Donors.
Direct Reports: None
Job Location: Mogadishu office with regular travel to Hargeisa and Baidoa
Contract Details: 1 year & renewable
Job Purpose: As a Senior Accountant focusing on donor grants management, the jobholder will be responsible for ensuring that donor budgets and reports are prepared, reviewed and submitted timely. S/he will work closely with the grant owners/budget holders to ensure donor reports are accurate and in line with the approved budgets. S/he will play a key role in ensuring compliance with relevant donor rules and regulations. S/he will support in Donor grant management by ensuring that adherence to donor budgeting and reporting requirements. The jobholder will provide support during budget preparation
and subsequent budget revisions.
Main duties & Responsibilities:
Donor Grant Management & Financial Reporting
Somalia is a lead agency in a consortium, consolidate consortium/ reports and budgets on the donor reporting template
Organization Budget Revisions
Other Duties
Concern Code of Conduct and Associated Policies
Confidentiality
Person specification:
Skills and Experience Required:
Essential:
· Qualified Accountants (ACCA/CPA or equivalent)
· A degree in Commerce, Finance, Accounting or related field
· At least five (5) years’ experience in financial and grants management in an INGO with at least three (3) years’ experience in a senior position.
· Knowledge of International donors’ (e.g. FCDO, ECHO, EU, Irish Aid, USAID/OFDA, UNICEF etc) rules and standard tools for budgeting, spending and reporting.
· Familiar with government policies and regulations on taxation, etc.
· Proven financial management skills - excellent project management, accounting and expenditure verification attention to detail
· Experience on Accounting systems of INGOs
· Experience in developing staff capacity both on technical and management aspects
· Must be fully fluent in English
Desirable:
· Knowledge of development issues and concepts.
· Academic background of or strong practical experience in macro-economic and/or fiscal policy.
· Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
· Experience working in partnership with local, national and international organisations
· Good team worker
· Good Communication and negotiation skills
· A good understanding of computer applications i.e. Microsoft word, communications systems and basic trouble shooting skills.
· Advance knowledge and experience of using Excel is MUST
· Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity
· Empathy with Concern’s goals and a commitment to capacity building, protection and participation
· Good communication and training / capacity building skills
· Proven organization, planning and management skills
· Ability to work on own initiative and lead diverse teams
· Flexible and adaptable to a changing environment
Disclaimer Clause
This job description is not exhaustive and may be revised by the line manager from time to time
Interested candidates, who meet the above requirements, should submit their applications (cover letter and updated CV contacts) by email to som.vacancies@concern.net with the subject line “Application for Senior Donor Accountant” by Tuesday 7th May 2024 2024.
Due to the urgency required to fill in the position, short listing will be done on rolling basis and ONLY shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.
Concern is an equal opportunities employer and female candidates are strongly encouraged to
apply.
Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the
Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-
Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of
programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff,
consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour
expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and
maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with
Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be
expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their
contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they
have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and
agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.
Your Personal Data
During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.
Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).
Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.
By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned lists
In certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them - so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.
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Please only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.