Senior Finance Officer

The Senior Finance Officer will be reporting to the Senior Finance Manager. The Senior Finance officer provides support to the senior Finance Manager in the areas of Bookkeeping, capacity building and growth of Finance officers, budget formulation and tracking, financial planning and monitoring, Accounting and donor reporting. In addition to the provision of financial advisory services to non-finance staff and direct supervision of finance officers 

• Ensure that Finance Officers complete their work and have the required support and supervision
• Provide leadership to cross-functional teams representing the Field Finance Policies and Operations. 
• Ensure that Accounting System entry data is accurate and timely. 
• Review Finance Officer reporting to ensure accuracy. 
• Training and Development of Finance Officers. 
• Provide ad-hoc and regular reporting to Canada and Fundraising Team where necessary
• Periodically review policies to ensure they are up to date. 
• Ensure roll-out of new policies within field offices. 
• Assess and recommend improvements to cash management, field office accounting, and controls
• Reviewing of Beyonic payments. 
• Leading the Bookkeeping processes and ensuring that this is done by 15th of every month with all the final accounts reconciliation and filing of supporting documents. 
• Update internal systems with financial data. Specifically Sage intact and Sage 50 Accounting  Premium 
• Support the administrator with the reconciliation of Payroll, NSSF, WHT, and PAYE when asked
• Prepare monthly financial reports and share them with responsible teams for their reference
• Suggest changes or improvements to increase accuracy, efficiency, and cost-saving
• Provide support to staff through training to ensure adherence to financial processes and procedures
•  Support the senior Finance Manager with donor reports.
• Reviewing of CBA as per the approved approval matrix
• Consolidation and analysis of departmental and Office budgets during Mid-Year budget review and annual budgeting. 
• Spearheading and overseeing the process of Data contractor’s pay to ensure that the right amounts are being paid by finance officers, as well as validating the deductions before payments. 
• Represent the SFM in management meetings. 

Preferred Technical Skills 

• Excellent time management, organizational, and critical thinking skills 
• Excellent mathematical, analytical, and numerical skills 
• Knowledge of accounting and financial regulations and data privacy standards;
• Ability to travel at least 30% of the time to different districts of RTV field operations
• Previous experience with accounting software (Sage Intacct), 
• Excellent computer skills, including Excel and Microsoft Word. 
• Strong ethics, with an ability to manage confidential data. 

Education, Qualification, and Experience 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Finance or any related course. 
• A minimum of (3) three years of professional experience in providing accounting and Bookkeeping and proven experience in a senior finance role. 
• CPA or ACCA level III or level IV would be of an added advantage 
• Proven experience with Sage Accounting Software would be of great advantage
• Good understanding of financial management procedures implemented by international donors