BRAC Regional Head of Finance, Africa Jobs in Kenya

BRAC Regional Head of Finance, Africa Jobs in Kenya

BRAC International is a leading non-profit organisation with a mission to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Founded in 1972, by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, BRAC is the largest non-governmental development organisation in the world and is present in 15 countries across Asia and Africa today.

BRAC designs proven, scalable solutions that equip people with the support and confidence they need to achieve their potential. BRAC’s institutional expertise on various programmes, including health, agriculture, microfinance, education, and youth empowerment, is touching the lives of over 100 million people in the Global South.

BRAC International (BI) is seeking application from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position:

Regional Head of Finance, Africa

The role will give greater support to Country Offices’ Finance Functions across a number of Finance critical areas. Working closely with the Finance Team at the Head Office (including through dotted line responsibilities), and along with the Regional Director, and Deputy Regional Director, this role has both a Country-facing remit as well as a Regional Office remit.

Key to the role will be the support provided to both the Country Offices in ensuring strong financial management standards, ensuring policies are formulated, adhered to and any breach thoroughly investigated with the appropriate action taken and subsequent learnings. The role has broad oversight of Finance of the Regional Office, in close collaboration with direct reports.

Key Responsibilities:

Country Office Financial Management

Assist in the development and roll-out of Finance and Procurement Policies, ensuring compliance, and strong accountability mechanisms.

Assist in the design, and the run the roll-out of an annual budgeting process, linked to organisational planning, strategy and funding.

Implement a system of quarterly re-forecasts, ensuring driving deficits to zero, and where necessary support Country Offices to implement a core cost plan including redesign, reallocation, redistribution and reducing of budgets to ensure efficiency whilst implementing high quality programmes.

Support Country Offices in donor budgeting, ensuring adherence to financial model and cost recovery processes in collaboration with BI Budget Team

Support to Country Offices in Financial Reporting for donors

Seek approval for financial statements.

Support Country Offices to run annual external audit processes, ensuring management recommendations are followed-up.

Ensure strong policies and processes are in place for procurement in Country Offices and ensure system of asset management is in place and adhered to

Ensure approvals for Procurement and expenditure are done in line with Table of Decision Making.

Troubleshooting and support to Country Offices in finance management and policy

Regional Office Financial Management

Oversight of financial management of Regional Office including the development of a Regional Office budget

Ensure proper documentation in place and correct approvals for all procurement

processes, and requisitions.

Oversight of payroll for the Regional Office

Run the Annual External Audit process for the Regional Office and ensure any management actions are delivered.

Bank signatory on all accounts and bank authorisation approvals are in place.

Safeguarding:

Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

Postgraduate/ Masters in relevant subject - Accounting, Business Administration, Commerce or Finance.

A professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA or CIMA will be an added advantage.

Required Competencies

Leadership skills

Sound knowledge of accounting principles and procedures including IFRS and IASs.

Demonstrable experience with preparing financial statements, management accounting (costing, unit economics).

High levels of proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Ability to present financial reports to both financial and non-financial staff.

Excellent experience in using ERP and Excel

Strong focus on controls and processes, financial forecast and high attention to detail

Ability to travel when required (expected at least 30%)

Appreciation of diversity and familiarity with multicultural environment.

Experience Requirements:

10+ years of experience in relevant field

Experience in managing large multi-year programme budget.

Experience in risk management, control design and implementation

Extensive knowledge and experience in the International and local donor funding environment, including financial reporting, trends and procedures.

Regular reporting and presentation of complex budget analysis to both financial and non-financial staff.

Experience in program budget development, cashflow forecast for entities in multiple countries and in several currencies.

How to Apply

External candidates need to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at recruitment.bi@brac.net

Internal candidates need to apply with their latest CV including all job assignments in detail with BRAC PIN and email to internal.bi@brac.net

Please mention the name of the position and AD# BI 33/23 in the subject bar. This is a national position and only Kenyan nationals are encouraged to apply.

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