Responsibilities

The Finance Officer – Disability Inclusive Development (DID) will deliver the day-to-day financial administration of the DID programme to ensure all financial requirements of the projects are fully met. Key duties will include:


To develop, review and amend coordinating and implementing consortium partner contracts and budgets to enable project delivery with the guidance of the Head of Inclusive Futures
Coordinate the process for timely and accurate donor financial submissions including core monthly financial expenditure reports, forecasts and ad hoc requests.
Work with the Head of Finance to develop tools to improve financial analysis throughout the project, for instance Power-BI dashboards, using data linked from the programme financial database (MyCLAIMS)
Support the preparation of financial reports and forecasts for the donor.
Deliver the day-to-day finance and administration tasks on the DID project including partner transfers, cost recovery, fund management, procurement, manage the assets register.


Skills and Experience

To succeed in this role you will need:


An understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity for people with disabilities
Experience of institutional donor or large-scale contract management. In particular experience of FCDO funding would be useful.
Excellent numerical skills
Finance and Accounting experience
High proficiency with Excel (pivot tables) is required and experience of a computer-based accounting system
Strong attention to detail when needed, with a willingness to follow issues through to resolution.
Demonstrated ability to effectively prioritise work in a high-pressure environment working to competing deadlines
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
Experience of conducting/participating in finance workshops (desirable)
Willingness to continuously develop skills and knowledge to remain current with donor funding developments. (desirable)
Experience and awareness/understanding of international development context and humanitarian sector (desirable)
Able to travel for up to 4 weeks per year
Desire to follow up an accounting professional certification (i.e. ACCA or CIMA)