Finance Manager

Internal/External Advert

Finance Manager – 40 hrs per week – 1 Year

Estimated start date: ASAP

Based in Jerusalem or WB or Gaza

Deadline for Application 12th May 2024

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

We are an international confederation of 21 organizations (affiliates) working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries.

All our work is led by three core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness. To read more about our values please clickhere

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate ourvalues are recruited to work for us.

The Role

JOB PURPOSE:

• Assumes a strategic overview of financial management systems across the organisation, taking note of the changing external and internal environment and economic conditions.
• Is responsible for overall Finances, Budgeting, Reporting and Planning ((including monthly financial reporting and preparation of CQMR’s and annual reports and accounts)
• Is responsible for final check of budgets of proposals and financial reports, including check on consistency and cost recovery
• Ensures the effective and efficient working of budgetary, accounting, reporting and internal control systems for the field.
• Designs and influences adoption by Finance team of tools for management information and reporting purposes.
• Is responsible for the flow of financial information between program staffs in Oxfam office and counterpart organisations.
• Generates & circulates quarterly and monthly reports, variance analysis, forecasts, project spending and any other adhoc reports as required.
• Assists and supports the CMT (e.g. Program leads, and Country Director) in ensuring that field expenditures meet Oxfam and institutional donor requirements and remain within the approved plans and budgets.
• Advises and enforces compliance to mandatory procedures including Pastel, Adobe and RAMON Systems
• Is responsible for overall auditing and Internal Control.
• To provide financial and management support to all programme Finance Officers and to provide skills and experience to help develop the capacity of financial staff.
• To establish, implement and monitor program financial management in OPTI.
• Identifying risk and providing mitigation actions and follow up to ensure risk reduction or elimination of programme finances
• Assisting on AIDA financial management

What we are looking for

We are looking for someone who has:

• Degree in Finance, Accounting or any related field
• Proven accountancy experience and knowledge of financial accounting, reporting and analysis
• Experience of donor audits
• Knowledge of key institutional donor requirements including knowledge of donor contract management and reporting procedures
• NGO experience
• Ability to influence and support colleagues in appreciating the importance of financial standards, procedures and controls
• Ability to prioritise own workload, work independently, be pro-active and innovative, and work to deadlines
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to influence others and to work effectively within a team
• Able to build effective working relationships with finance and non-finance teams
• Experience of financial systems and procedures
• High level of computer literacy, excellent working knowledge of excel databases.
• Experience and knowledge of PASTEL and SAP systems.
• Good command of English and Arabic

Desirable

• Cultural knowledge of OPT context.
• Knowledge and experience of in terms of its political, economic, and social trends.