Senior Finance Coordinator - Human Appeal UK

Senior Finance Coordinator - Human Appeal UK

Job purpose

Manage the HA Finance Department and ensure the robustness of the HA financial management systems and processes, as well as smooth coordination with HA Head Quarter.

Responsible for ensuring that the charity’s funders, donors, suppliers, volunteers and staff are paid appropriately and for ensuring that income is properly recognised in the systems to deliver and maintain an efficient and effective accounting system.

Maintaining all associated internal controls, policies and procedures and adhering to Accounting Regulations and associated legislation via utilisation of in-house Accounts and Management systems in order to safeguard the charity, deliver value for money, save costs, mitigate risk and prevent misappropriation of income and expenditure

For Operational daily works: His/Her responsibilities should also includes but not limited to;

1. Maintain financial control, due diligence and financial administration of projects.
2. Acquire up to date status of project payments, exchange information and ensure consistent service delivery to our partners.
3. Review and approve final financial reports for projects implemented by partners.
4. Archive all financial documents.
5. Ensure Compliance of HA internal/external procedures and policies to ensure safe and legal money transfer. 
6. Sucessfully ensure that the Charity’s Suppliers, Partners & staff are paid appropriately in a timely fashion.
7. Successfully ensure that the charity’s income from Funders & Donors are accounted for appropriately 
8. Successfully prevent misappropriation of income and expenditure.
9. Safeguard the charity from risk & in accordance with internal policies, procedures and external accounting regulations.
10. Deliver value for money by ensuring due diligence checks are applied to all financial matters.
11. Review all supplier invoices for appropriate documentation and approval prior to payment.
12. Log (file and scan) invoices, including expenses, ad-hoc payment requests.
13. Ensure efficient and timely accounts payable month-end closing.
14. Preparing accruals and prepayments.
15. Review (and adjust where necessary) ensuring payments are being made appropriately in line with payment terms.
16. Prepare and distribute remittance advices to Suppliers. 
17. Prepare payment documents relating to suppliers paid by direct debit.
18. Receive supplier statements, match those against payments made; invoices ready for payment and invoices in query.
19. Reconciliation of Supplier Accounts in liaison with the Financial Controller.
20. Producing and reconciling monthly Creditor reports and analyzing Aged Creditors reports.
21. Reconciliation of various Bank Accounts.
22. Contribute to the Month End & Year End Accounts closing and external audit.
23. Review Budgets versus Actuals performance with Budget Holders.
24. Prepare new projects budgets

Experience and Competencies

1. University Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field or equivalent work experience required. A professional certification in Accounting or a related field highly desired.
2. Accounting qualification (such as CPA, ACA, ACMA, ACCA)
3. Minimum of 5 years successful experience in the humanitarian and developmental field, ideally in INGOs.
4. Professional level using MS Office Suite, especially MS Excel.
5. High proficiency in English, Arabic is an asset
6. Advanced communication and interpersonal skills
7. Ability to work on their own and/or part of a team, and under pressure

How to Apply:

We are looking to appoint this role ASAP so for the best chance of success please APPLY TODAY!

Please upload your CV and Cover Letter outlining how your experience, skills, qualification and professional background fit with the position requirements. The deadline is 30 Sept.2022