Grants Finance and Compliance Manager

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity

Plan Chad is one of the fifteen Plan International’s countries of operational presence in West and Central Africa. The organisation has been registered in Chad since October 2021 and started operations in the country in July 2023 in the backdrop of the Sudanese Refugee Crisis in the East. Since then Plan International Chad has led projects in different sectors, including on Education in Emergencies, Child Protection in Emergencies, Nutrition, Cash Programming, WASH and Sexual & Reproductive Health and has become one of the prominent child’s rights organisations in the country.

Plan International Chad is working to grow its programmatic and funding portfolio in the country to respond to gender and inclusive lifesaving immediate needs and address multifaceted vulnerabilities and protection risks faced by children and their families in the country, including primarily those affected by the Sudanese crisis in Eastern Chad.

The organisation is looking to recruit a sound and experienced Finance Manager to ensure effective financial management of current and upcoming resources, leading financial operations in the country to foster the necessary compliance to Plan International standards and donor requirements.

Role purpose

The Grants Finance and Compliance Manager (GFCM) will be responsible for budgeting, tracking cash flow and expenditures, managing the actual receipt and distribution of funds, tracking use of funds according to donor requirements and finance management standards.

The GFCM will ensure consistent and accurate registration of expenditures, monitoring of budget burn rate, adequate updates of the SAP system and local general ledgers.

The GFCM is expected to provide hands-on support and strengthen the Country office’s overall capacity in financial and grant management including Plan’s partners.

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge required;

Knowledge

Advanced university degree in finance/accounting studies

Professional Financial/Accounting qualification (CPA or equivalent)

Knowledge of the sector and the financial management issues specific to it an advantage

Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards, control standards and the reporting requirements of major international grant donors

Skills

Proven effective management skills leading teams across several sites and operating in a multi- cultural and matrix management structure

Excellent proven financial analytical skills

Ability to demonstrate and foster in team members a strong commitment to meeting the needs of other employees and managers for financial services

Excellent proficiency in French

Good written and spoken English is also an advantage.

Proficient in Microsoft office packages

Behaviours

Striving for high performance across the team and for Plan’s business

Strategic thinking and innovation – fining efficiencies in the use of resources

Decision making and risk management – identification and action on financial risk management in line with compliance requirements

Influence and communication – able to communicate concerns to managers and teams

Building effective teams and partnerships – with teams and suppliers

Developing people – leaving a legacy of a locally able team

Self-awareness and resilience – operating in a highly volatile and developing context