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Summary of the role
To support the local
Finance Manager (FM) in delivering assurance to the Head of Office on the
financial position and current performance so that effective action is taken on
a timely basis.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in improving local finance awareness and capability. Provide support to local staff in financial planning and discharging their financial responsibilities and in interpreting partner financial reports/evidence.
- Lead on the management of operating costs budgets and related forecasts.
- Support the FM in the preparation of corporate returns, such as projected outturn, accounting packs, large cash payment forecasting (by providing funding estimates), budget transfers and prepayments & accruals; and post associated journals.
- Support the FM in the communication and delivery of corporate policies and other initiatives.
- Develop an understanding of external partners to raise awareness on counter fraud, corruption and leakage risks, including assistance in interpreting the due diligence framework.
- Provide the required support to programme staff on financial aspects of programme design and implementation and on-going monitoring and reporting, through engagement and effective challenge. This includes, providing support on due diligence / financial management spot checks and annual reviews of programmes.
- Support in priority work areas, such as partner portfolio and payment structures and mapping of delivery chains.
- Contribute to the maintenance and strengthening of the internal control environment to mitigate risks by performing reconciliations, supporting compliance with key finance processes and highlighting control weaknesses identified in process. As part of this, retain an oversight of imprest account (including petty cash counts) in the local office and monitor, report on and facilitate compliance with PO & receipting practices.
- Contribute to the effective preparation for audit and compliance visits and assist in the delivery of recommendations.
- Candidates should be able to clearly demonstrate in their application examples of the following competencies:
- Changing and Improving Making Effective Decisions
- Leading and Communicating
- Achieving Commercial Outcomes Delivering Value for Money
- Delivering at Pace
Details of the above UK
Civil service competencies are available at http://www.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Civil-Service-Competency-Framework-July-2012.pdf
Technical Competencies:
- Reporting And Control Operational Finance Decision Support
- Risk Management And Counter Fraud Specialist Finance
- Wider Experience
For more information on the details of the positon, please review the
Role Profile / Job Description and the Technical Competency Framework.
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application form and
send it to the
AfricaHRHubRecruit@DFID.GOV.UK with a copy of their most recent CV and Covering
letter. Please quote the following reference number when applying
“TAN/0317”.
Failure to do so may result in your application not being viewed.
Closing date of applications is midnight on 14 August 2017. Applications
shown as being received after this time will not be accepted.
If you have not received a response by 28 August 2017 please consider
your application as unsuccessful.
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