Head of Finance for Ethiopia

**Contract lenght:** 1 year, with the possibility of extension

**Base:** Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

**Terms:** National posting

## **About the role:**

The HoF’s line manager is the Compliance Director.

At country programme level, the HoF is the line manager of Accounting Unit Manager and Partnership Coordinator. The HoF also works closely with Head of Operations (HoO), Deputy Country Director (DCD), Head of Programmes (HoP) and Programme Managers (ProgMs).

At headquarters (HQ) level, apart from the RHoSO, her/his primary counterparts at the technical level are the Accounting and Finance Coordinators for Ethiopia.

## **Duties & Responsibilities:**

**General**

- Manage the Finance and Accounting national team while ensuring it has sufficient capacity both in number and qualification and securing their continuous capacity building based on personal development plans;
- Ensure that Systems support the implementation of the Country Strategy and that procedures and regulations are implemented in full transparency and in compliance with donors´ and PIN rules;
- Ensure that key support policies are continuously updated as required and adjusted to the context;

**Finance Management**

- The HoF makes sure that relevant country programme financial and administrative procedures are in place and respected;
- Ensures financial and administrative systems (ELO, Navision) are properly administrated and used by the whole country programme;
- In cooperation with the financial team guarantees that financial requirements are met in all sectors, including budgeting, reporting and accounting of the country programme;
- Ensures functional communication setup between Finance and other departments with special focus on budget management;
- The HoF draws and updates country programme overall operational budget, Coverage table and supervises Ethiopia annual budget;
- Optimizes financial resources allocation to cover operations costs; monitors and notifies HQ about crucial operations costs