Afghanistan: A FINANCE COORDINATOR - AFGHANISTAN

Country: Afghanistan – Kabul

Length of contract: 12 months – starting from the 15^th of April 2016**

The position: Under the supervision of the Country Director, you will be responsible to ensure sound and transparent administration of funds by providing accounting and financial management consistent with the ACF financial management framework and local legislation. You will be in charge of:

• Contribute to the definition of mission strategy: creating the budgetary framework of the mission, making financial and budgetary information available to other departments to facilitate the establishment of the country strategy, producing high quality and timely financial and budgetary contributions to “proposals” and reports for funding bodies.


• Ensure high quality accounting for the mission: disseminating information about accounting procedures throughout the mission and ensuring they are observed, the correctness of accounting and analytical entries, timely forwarding of the monthly accounting bundle, verifications of cash stocks and bank accounts according to ACF regulations


• Ensure high quality cash management for the mission: designing, promulgating and ensuring compliance with cash management procedures across the mission, the availability and safe keeping of the necessary cash, adapting methods for cash transfer in the light of local conditions and security considerations, monitoring the correspondence between cash forecast and the BFU, anticipating treasury risks and resolving difficulties


• Provide financial and budgetary management: promulgation of and compliance with the financial rules of funding bodies, establishing the annual budget, leadership in budgetary matters at mission level and steering the process of budget forecasting, cost analysis and issuing budgetary, monitoring financial risks and issuing alerts when necessary, providing the necessary materials for negotiations with funding bodies and producing documents to funding bodies


• Promote and ensure financial collaboration and coordination with mission partners: participating in the process of selecting partners and validating the financial risk analysis provided by the bases, defining with partners the modes of financial and budgetary management in the framework of joint projects, validating the financial and budgetary aspects of partnership conventions and agreements, taking full advantage at mission level of all innovative practices in the field of financial and budgetary management in partnerships


• Prevent and manage fraud and corruption


• Manage the Finance team in capital and be Technical/Support Manager of Finance Managers in the bases

The applicant:** You hold a Master Degree in Finance or Administration or a related experience in the sector. You have at least 2 years of professional experience in a humanitarian setting on a finance position preferably in ACF or/and in a complicated context.

You have Strong communication skills, ability to lead and enjoy working in team. You have a strong capacity to work in a complicated security environment.

You are also recognized for your excellent diplomatic and organizational skills. You also demonstrate priority management and planning abilities.

Fluent in English (speaking and writing) is mandatory. A good level in French is an added value.

Status:

Gross monthly salary ranging from €1805 to €2305 depending on relevant experience

Food and hygiene expenses, per diem, transportation costs, collective or individual accommodation, medical insurance

25 days of annual paid leaves and 20 days of rest and recuperation (R&R) per year **