Job Opportunities at Conciliation Resources

Job Purpose

• Conciliation Resources is headquartered in London, with a registered entity and an office in Central Africa Republic (CAR) and Ethiopia. The Senior Finance Officer position, to be based in Africa, will be supporting the Africa department and its three programmes with a range of finance functions/services including accounting, reporting, planning and cash management. He/she is responsible for providing technical finance assistance to staff as appropriate to ultimately support the delivery of the work of Conciliation Resources.
• The post-holder is required to work in close collaboration with the London-based finance team consisting of a Finance Director, a Senior Finance Business Partner, a Finance Business Partner, a Financial Controller, an Income and Treasury Accountant, 2 Finance Officers and 2 Finance Assistants. The post-holder is also expected to work closely with the Africa programmes teams and other staff across Conciliation Resources, as well as our organisational partners. This is a key role in both delivering and developing our financial controls framework, processes and procedures and being able to respond and solve problems.

Person Specification
Knowledge

• Qualified through experience or part/full professional/academic qualification in accounting such as CPA, ACCA or CIMA or progress towards.
• Proficient knowledge of an accounting system preferably Sun systems.
• Proficient knowledge of MS Office (excel) and database software.
• Knowledge of AASB accounting standards for Not-for-profit/Charity accounting.
• Knowledge of relevant tax regulations in relation to Payroll tax, Withholding tax and VAT in contexts where Conciliation Resources operates in Africa.

Experience

• Experience of using financial accounting software to maintain ledgers, bank reconciliations, production and analysis of monthly management reports and operating in a multi-currency environment.
• Experience of undertaking a range of financial administrative duties including data input and retrieval.
• Experience of working with and developing established financial accounting procedures.
•  Experience of handling financial reporting to institutional donors such as the UK, German, EU and the Irish.
• Experience forecasting and modelling programme budgets
• Experience of handling an organisation’s payroll processes
• Experience of handling an organisation’s financial processes
• Experience of managing and motivating junior staff
• Experience of working with staff who are not office based on financial issues.

Skills/Attributes

• Excellent computer and IT skills, preferably in a Mac environment including Excel and Word.
• Excellent numeracy and accuracy skills with a high level of attention to detail.
• Good problem-solving skills/innovative.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong organisational skills including planning, developing, implementing and maintaining financial administrative systems.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to communicate in English and French.
• Willingness to be proactive and self-servicing, with a proven ability to work as part of a team as well as independently.
• Right to work and live in Kenya/Ethiopia
• Commitment to CR’s goals and values.

How to apply

Downloads for this post: Job Description/Application form 1/Application form 2/CR Candidate FPN

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Job purpose

• The Programme Officer will provide programmatic, financial, logistical and partners support primarily to the East and Central Africa Programme (ECAP) and to the rest of Africa programme teams and partners as necessary. The post-holder plays a key role in liaising with partners across the areas in which we work, and in supporting the team in Bangui, Nairobi, Kampala and London on programme activity implementation, fund raising and proposal development, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), and donor and partners reporting requirements.
• The Programme Officer will also contribute to the programmes’ strategy, learning, security and keeping people safe to ensure integrity and sustainability of Conciliation Resources’ peacebuilding work in Africa. The Programme Officer is expected to undertake travel within ECAP and where possible to the other Africa programme contexts.

The Programme Officer will report to the ECAP Director (based in Kampala).

Person specification 

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

•  Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English and French
• Experience of supporting financial management including experience in preparing budgets, monitoring organisational and partner expenditure and supporting financial reporting
• Experience of working in a role that supports project design, implementation and on-going support for processes of reporting, planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• Experience of working with databases, handling diverse sources of information and maintaining accessible filing systems
• Strong organisational skills including planning, developing, implementing and maintaining administrative systems
• Experience of revising and contributing to the drafting of substantive reports
• Experience of supporting partners on joint delivery of work.
• Experience of supporting implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of projects
•  Experience of working in an administrative and support position to a team.
• Understanding of and interest in peacebuilding and conflict transformation processes
•  Experience of undertaking supervised research work
•  Experience of working in a multicultural environment
•  Willingness to work irregular hours occasionally and to undertake some international travel
•  Appreciation of issues of confidentiality, and cross-cultural and political sensitivity
•  Initiative, enthusiasm and a problem-solving approach to new challenges
•  Ability and willingness to travel to areas affected by conflict
•  Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office software packages, databases, email, internet
•  Right to live and work in Kenya

How to apply

Downloads for this post: Job Description/Application form 1/Application form 2/CR Candidate FPN