INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
For
Senior Field Finance Officer
Country Office: Ethiopia
Work Base: Waghimra-Sekota
Availability: As Soon As Possible
Salary Scale: EMS07
Salary and other benefits: Gross salary ETB 27,000-30,912
Insurance - (Life, Group Personal Accident and Medical Insurances are covered upon the organization policies).
Seniority Allowance – paid depending up the years of service.
Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply for this position
About Action Against Hunger
Action Against Hunger-USA is a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. We save the lives of malnourished children and we enable entire communities to be free from hunger. With more than 8,000 staff in over 50 countries, our programs reached 17 million people in 2019.
About the Country Program in Ethiopia
Action Against Hunger has been operational in Ethiopia since 1984 responding to both chronic and acute needs through a multi-sectoral strategy where nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods, WASH, and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support activities are integrated to have a meaningful impact on people’s resilience. Action Against Hunger currently operates in 5 different regions (Oromia, Somali, Amhara, Benishangul Gumuz, and Gambella) with a portfolio of 20m USD/year of emergency, resilience building, research, and innovation programs. We have a country team of around 600 staff in 17 regional and satellite offices. Our main donors in Ethiopia in 2020/2021 are BHA, ECHO, Europaid, UNHCR, UNICEF, GFFO, BPRM, SIDA, EHF, WFP, CIAA, and others.
General Assignment:
I. Summary of position
The Senior Field Finance Officer Manage the base level finance aspects and maintain the base level finance aspects and oversee, manage daily program-wide accounting, and finance functions.
The Senior Field Finance Officer role’s purpose, engagement, and delivery are:
Purpose
The Senior Field Finance Officer will be responsible for Budget Management, Treasury forecast, field compliance, and accountancy.
Engagement
The role holder will ensure good relations with financial partners (bank, tax office, other financial service providers, etc.) and Provide base support upon request of the coordination office.
Delivery
The Senior Field Finance Officer will validation procurement requests and confirm the budget availability and the requests are within the validated budget.
Validation of procurement documents makes certain the process is compliant and the completeness of supporting documents and check the approval of payment documents (unlike PV) before payment validation.
I. Essential job duties
II. Supervisory Responsibilities
III. Gender Equality Commitments
IV. Fiscal Responsibility
V. Physical Demands
VI. Working Conditions, Travel, and Environment
The duties of the job require regular job attendance at least five days per week in areas of intervention and. Must be available to work outside normal office hours or on the weekends as required.
Must be able to travel as required for standard domestic and international business purposes. While performing the duties of this job in the field, the employee may be exposed to precarious settings under high-security risks and/or very basic living conditions and outside weather conditions, as well as infectious diseases.
I. Required Qualifications and Professional Experience
II. Required Skills & Competencies