Finance Officer - Budgeting, Planning and Reporting
ROLE PURPOSE:
This position provides financial support to all Save the Children programs in Lebanon, ensuring accurate and timely financial information and assisting budget holders in managing their budgets. It includes generating financial reports, reviewing partner documentation, facilitating payments while ensuring compliance with internal and donor requirements. Additionally, the role involves assisting in budget proposals, financial planning, and award revisions, collaborating with Area Offices, and participating in financial meetings.
CHILD SAFE GUARDING: Level 2: either the post holder will have access to personal data about children and/or young people as part of their work; or the post holder will be working in a ‘regulated’ position (accountant, barrister, solicitor, legal executive); therefore a police check will be required (at ‘standard’ level in the UK or equivalent in other countries).
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
Financial Reporting
- Generate and issue monthly consolidated Budget vs Actuals (BVA) for all active awards.
- Create new BVAs for the new awards, including loading the SOF budget into accounting system, assigning budget holders, and ensure the BVA is aligned with the Award Management System (AMS).
- Review the SCI general Ledger and ensure the expenses comply with SCI and donors` requirements.
- Assist the Finance Coordinator on preparing a donor financial reporting, delivered on time, and in an accurate manner.
- Ensure the shared cost (CAM) are accurately posted and conduct a reclassification when required.
Partnership
- Responsible for reviewing and verifying the expenditures and financial reports from Partner Organizations and ensures that the supporting documentation complies with Save the Children’s policies, practices, and procedures.
- Responsible to verify the partner prefinancing account reconciliations, and proper closure.
- Populate the SAT financial reporting for Head Officer partners, including monitoring and posting the expenses, and ensure payments are processed on time.
- Conduct a partnership assessment to identify new partners for Head Office.
Financial Planning and Budgeting
- Assist the Finance Coordinator with the budget proposals, consolidate inputs from Area Offices, and develop budgets as per donor templates.
- Assist the Finance Coordinator with Budget revisions and amendments, including no-cost extensions and cost extensions.
- Work closely with the Area Officer to update the BVAs with the most updated forecast.
- Attend the monthly Area Award Review Meetings
- Attend award kick-off and close-out meetings
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor Degree in Accounting, finance or business management
- Very good written and spoken English and Arabic languages and communication skills
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- At least 2 years NGO Finance related experience
- Prior experience with donors’ requirements
- Able to work within a team
- Availability for internal travel and little external travel.
- Organized with good in time management, and respect deadlines
- Trustworthy
- Analytical skills and accuracy
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Health and Safety
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
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