Finance Controller

The purpose of the position is to provide support to DRC operations as well as to perform monthly controlling of their trial balance. You will be ensuring quality financial data of the Country Operations, while also providing guidance to further develop capacities of your finance colleagues.

Key responsibilities:

Operational Finance Controlling:

• Perform Month End Closure (MEC) controlling tasks to ensure country operations’ (COs) compliance (which implies controlling the Trial balances)
• Escalate issues to management as needed
• Assist countries with accounting related tasks
• Support country operations in providing HQ Finance supporting documentation related to transactional finance
• Support countries with the Year End Closure and their eventual related statutory audit

Country Expert Advice & Capacity Building:

• Provide MEC capacity building to Finance colleagues in Country Operations
• Provide on demand expert advice to countries, regarding accounting modalities (including support during COs Statutory audit)
• Provide countries with technical support related to Microsoft Dynamics 365 functionalities
• Be the focal point of Country Finance Manager, with regards to country accounting financial matters and technical inductions

Special tasks:

• You will also be involved in ad-hoc tasks, with the aim of improving the overall business financial capacities in DRC globally as well as participating in various working groups, taskforces etc. across the organization. The position will require travelling to the country operations (2-3 weeks a year).

About you:

• To be successful in this role, we expect you to be a self-fulfilled professional, with high operational and ethical integrity, who can work autonomously in a day-to-day aspect.
• Controlling and quality assurance are your strengths, while a strong team approach is needed when it comes to standardization, common goals, and quality across the board.
• You must have a solid operational financial & accounting background, combined with the elegance of multicultural communication and the precision of a surgeon. Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a must, although any ERP related experience will be a plus.
• Nevertheless, a great will to learn by doing is desired, as Microsoft Dynamics 365 in DRC is yet customized to fit the organization’s multilevel setup.
• Our working language is English. Arabic, French, and Spanish skills will be considered an advantage while speaking Danish is an added value.
• All employees should master DRC’s core competencies: Communicating, Taking the lead, Collaborating, Striving for excellence and Demonstrating integrity.

Moreover, we also expect the following:  

• A university degree, minimum at bachelor’s level in relevant field, namely finance, accounting, business administration, etc.
• Accredited Chartered accountant by a renown international institution (desirable)
• Controller and accounting experience, preferably from an international organisation.
• Ability to translate accounting issues to manageable solutions and being comfortable bringing these solutions to your colleagues and manager.
• Have attention to details while at the same time keeping an overview.
• Advanced user of Excel.
• Ability/ willingness to travel (2-3 weeks per year).

Source: https://job.drc.ngo/jobs/job?id=170496