Finance Lead

**Finance Lead**

**3-year Fixed Term Contact. Full Time**

**Location: Abuja, Nigeria**

**Salary: Competitive**

*If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the scheduled closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience.*

**About us**

Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love.

We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues.

**Learn** **about our vision, mission and values**

**About the role**

Reporting in to the Head of Finance in the UK, the **Finance Lead** will lead and coordinate all restricted budgets in Nigeria. The post holder will provide a wide range of business support, financial analysis and information to the Senior management team of the Multi-Country Cluster (MCC).

The **Finance Lead** provides strategic leadership and oversight of all financial aspects of the programme, ensuring effective resource management, financial accountability, compliance, and value for money across the consortium. The role supports the achievement of programme outcomes by leading financial planning, budgeting, reporting, risk management, and financial performance monitoring, while fostering strong collaboration with consortium partners, financial institutions, donors, and other stakeholders.

Some of the main areas of responsibility for the **Finance Lead** include:

- Leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial coordination to ensure programme resources are managed effectively and programme outcomes are achieved in line with the programme’s theory of change.
- Providing strategic financial leadership across the consortium, fostering transparent, accountable, and trust-based financial collaboration among NGOs, agribusiness partners, financial institutions, youth organizations, government actors, and other stakeholders.
- Ensuring financial strategies and resource allocation support youth-centred and gender-responsive programming, addressing barriers to youth and women’s participation in the poultry value chain through equitable investment and financing mechanisms.
- Overseeing financial systems and funding mechanisms that support youth-led agribusinesses, apprenticeship models, digital learning platforms, and improved access to finance, productive assets, and agricultural inputs.
- Guiding the programme’s financial sustainability and market systems financing approach, ensuring effective engagement with financial service providers, investors, and market actors to expand access to financial services and strengthen value chain development.
- Leading financial risk management, compliance, and internal controls, ensuring adherence to donor requirements, consortium agreements, statutory regulations, and organizational policies.
- Providing oversight of financial reporting and performance monitoring, ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality financial information is available to consortium partners, programme leadership, and donors to support effective programme delivery and impact.

**About you**

**Who we are looking for:**

**Essential:**

- Professional accounting qualification (such as ACCA, ACA, CIMA, ICAN or equivalent) and/or equivalent relevant experience.
- Significant experience in senior finance roles, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting and business partnering.
- Experience of leading financial risk management, internal controls and compliance in a complex organisational environment.
- Experience of managing, coaching or coordinating staff and/or cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality financial outcomes.
- Experience of developing financial plans, budgets, forecasts and management reporting to support decision-making.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and confidently to non-financial audiences.
- Strong understanding of financial controls, accounting principles and financial analysis.
- Knowledge of relevant tax, regulatory and compliance requirements relevant to the role.
- Ability to build credibility for finance as a value-adding partner and to influence decision