Country: Czechia, Slovakia
Closing date: 01 Apr 2019
General information
MAGNA is a non-profit independent medical humanitarian organization. We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff.
We recruit medical and non-medical personnel, collects private and institutional funds and raises awareness among the public about populations in danger. Using a small but highly committed group of staff and volunteers, we have achieved respectable results. We treat patients suffering from a wide array of illnesses and health needs (child health, malnutrition, sexual violence, women health, mental health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, cholera and other diseases).
Currentlly we have open missions in South Sudan, DR Congo, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Cambodia. Since start we have worked in over 15 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and America.
Job description
Main Objective
You'll contribute to provide medical care to children and their families in crisis by being responsible for developing and managing financial tracking, resource flows, reporting and compliance for a specified portfolio of federal and non-federal grants/awards in support of MAGNA international programs. The Field Finance Officer provides technical financial support to the Operations Department and the field missions.
List of main activities:
Reviews, supervises and ensures the regular production of the accounting reports from MAGNA field missions.
Ensures the appropriate use of MAGNA financial resources.
Oversees internal control processes, ensuring that MAGNA field missions are working in accordance with MAGNA internal financial procedures as well as all donor rules and policies.
Proposes improvements in internal financial rules and organizes regular internal audits to check whether MAGNA field missions are compliant.
Assists the Field Finance Controller in providing regular, accurate data to oversee the MAGNA field mission finances under his/her management.
Supports his/her missions’ Finance Coordinators, providing technical guidance and coaching.
Ensures compliance with funding agency regulations in a timely manner.
Prepares, or oversees the preparation, of required reports to MAGNA and donor agencies (EU, ECHO, UN, etc.) based on field expenditures and allowable indirect cost rates.
Assists the Operations Department in generating grant proposals by providing financial data as needed. Makes recommendations regarding budgeting to ensure reasonable provisions are included to meet general management, financial management, capacity-building and audit requirements.
During the annual financial audit, serves as the contact with the auditors during field testing of international transactions and balance sheet items.
YOUR PROFILE
Higher education, business school type, master's degree in management / finance,
NGO experience in a financial position in the field, or in a similar position is desirable,
This post assumes a good mastery of accounting and management procedures, an understanding of the rules of the donors (ECHO, EU, UN ...), extremely rigorous work, relational facilities with the various services and expatriates in the field,
Mastery of the most common office software (Word and Excel), good command of English, Slovak, Czech and French language is a plus
Knowledge of accounting software SAGA is a plus
PROPOSED TERMS
Status
EMPLOYED with a Open-Term Contract
Compensation
MONTHLY INCOME: from 1,200 up to 1,650 Euros depending on the experience
How to apply:
CONTACT
Interested applicants can send only their CV including education, qualifications, contact number and relevant documents: by email, to address
The email subject line MUST include in the title of email the following to be considered:“**FIELD FINANCIAL OFFICER**”. E-mails without job title will not be reviewed.
We thank all applicants for their interest but only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Please ensure that you provide appropriate contact information (e-mail, mobile, etc.) and 3 professional references.