Job Title: Assistant Financial Controller
Location: Malawi, Blantyre Office
Reporting to: GOAL Malawi Financial Controller
Liaison with: GOAL Malawi Team Members
State Date: June 2016
Contract Duration: 12 months
General Description of the Programme:
GOAL has been working in Malawi since 2002. The current GOAL programme focuses on four main sectors: HIV, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), livelihoods/food security and disaster management in Nsanje and Balaka districts. GOAL has established programme offices in Nsanje, Chiklwawa and Balaka; a liaison office in the capital Lilongwe, which also houses the Country Director; and its main office in Blantyre.
General Description of the Role:
The Assistant Financial Controller to support the Financial Controller in managing the donor finances, ensure proper budgetary preparation, control and monitoring, and improve existing work practices within Finance Department and with other country programme departments/units, with particular emphasis on the understanding and application of financial procedures.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Liaise with programme and support staff to help ensure accurate expenditure forecasting and budget monitoring through the monthly production of Budget Management Tools (BMTs)
- Ensure timely preparation of donor reporting for review by the Financial Controller and Country Director prior to submission to Dublin and ultimately the donors
- Assist the wider team, including Programmes and Operations departments, in the preparation of donor budgets and annual rolling budgets
- Review and update cost apportionment basis to donors and ensure supporting documentation is reasonable and appropriately filed
- Assist with timely preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual management accounts for review by the Financial Controller
- In the absence of the Financial Controller, day to day responsibility for managing Finance with the support of the Assistant Country Director for Systems and/or Country Director
- Any other duties as may be assigned by the Financial Controller or the Assistant Country Director for Systems and/or Country Director
Required Qualifications:
- A qualified Accountant (Chartered, Certified or Management)
- Two years post qualified experience
- Experience with management of donor grants, for example OFDA, USAID, ECHO, DFID, EU, etc.
- Work experience in busy, changing environment
- Excellent written and spoken English, with excellent communication and training skills
- Ability and willingness to work in a remote areas
- Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word
- Knowledge of SAGE or a similar package desirable
- Ability to implement effective projects with limited supervision
- Team player, flexible and capable of working with a multinational country team.
GOAL has a Standards of Integrity and a Child Protection Policy, which have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants and children from exploitation. GOAL also has a confidentiality policy ensuring the non-disclosure of any information whatsoever relating to the practices and business of GOAL, acquired in the course of duty, to any other person or organisation without authority, except in the normal execution of duty. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to these policies any job offer made is also subject to police clearance. GOAL is an equal opportunities employer.
This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.
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