International Financial Accountant

Job title:

International Financial Accountant

Company

Concern Worldwide

Job description

C3 2021

Job Title: International Financial Accountant

Reports to: International Finance Manager – Reporting

Job location: The International Financial Accountant position will work in the International finance team at head office in Dublin and will be required to travel to overseas fields as needed.

Pay Band: Grade 5 Dublin (€54,550 – €62,286)

Contract: 2 Years – Fixed Term contract – Hybrid – Based out of the Dublin office

Job Purpose: The International Financial Accountant will be primarily responsible for providing support to country teams with consortia grants including budgeting, set-up, financial reporting and ongoing support and ensuring that the finance standards, policies and procedures of the organisation and donors are followed. In addition, they will be responsible for supporting the International finance team at the head office at various times throughout the year including year-end and budgeting and for providing cover for Roving Accountants as required.

Key Responsibilities:

A) Provision of support to countries with Consortia grants

Provide guidance & support to Country Management and Finance Teams in areas of financial management, use of standard financial reports and ad hoc development of appropriate management reporting including partner and donor reporting, as required for consortia grants.

• Provide guidance on technical accounting issues in relation to current Concern financial policies and procedures, as they relate to consortia grants.
• Review the field finance systems and controls in place for consortia grants and work with the RA and CFC on areas where necessary improvements identified.
• Undertake direct support visits, based on a Terms of Reference (TOR) agreed with International Financial Manager – Reporting and relevant Country Director (CD). These visits will deliver on areas identified as needing assistance.
• Provide direct support to field finance staff on any issues identified by the International finance team and/or head office finance.
• Support to field finance staff on Donor regulations & reporting requirements as they relate to consortia grants.
• Assist CFCs in developing training plans for national finance staff involved with consortia grants.
• Design training plans & courses for non-financial managers, in conjunction with the CFCs, in order to develop better understanding of financial issues (e.g. Budgeting, Management accounts, Donor management and other finance matters) among budget-holders of consortia grants.
• Review Consortia Lead agency approval request from field and update the consortia risk summary.

B) Provision of support to International finance team in head office

• Work with the International Finance Manager – Reporting to carry out a part of the finance induction including a consortia grant induction for newly recruited CFCs on Concern’s financial systems, policies and reports as they relate to consortia grants and/or follow up training after one to two months.
• Provide assistance to the International finance team at HQ at year-end including review of year-end forms and reports from countries and liaising with country teams in order to meet strict deadlines.
• Provide assistance to the International finance team during annual planning and budget revision time including review of budget submissions, liaising with country teams in order to meet strict deadlines and collating information as required.
• Assist in the review of specific sections of the Financial Reporting Pack(FRP)
• Work on other financial tasks including fortnightly OFT meeting minutes, In-country income journal, specific sections of field Delegation of Authority Work with CONUSA office on USAID/BHA funding and income reconciliation.

C) Cover for Roving Accountants

• Provide short-term cover where gaps exist for Roving Accountants by undertaking direct support visits, based on a Terms of Reference (TOR) agreed with International Finance Manager – Reporting and relevant Country Director (CD). These visits will deliver on areas identified as needing assistance including:

• Carrying out all month end processes and reconciliations to ensure a timely completion of the accounts for the period, including completion of monthly support cost allocations
• Carrying out all year end processes in line with organisational procedures
• Preparation of individual monthly management accounts for budget-holders and obtaining information on budget variances as needed
• Preparation of consolidated monthly management accounts for the Senior Management Team (SMT) with a short narrative report to explain major variances.
• Preparation of internal financial reports for Head Office finance to strict reporting deadlines
• Preparation of donor reports for external donors/agencies in line with agreed timetables
• Ensuring all donor reports are supported by transaction lists, in line with organisational procedures
• The preparation of yearend accounts for external audit purposes

D) Other

• Visiting the country programmes as required
• Providing cover as required within the finance team, for example IAS gaps in staffing
• Perform any other duties as required.

Skills and Experience Required Essential:

• Applicants must have a professional accounting qualification. E.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or their equivalent.
• At least three years post qualification experience in a finance/accounting role.
• Computer literacy, particularly in Microsoft Office such as Word and Excel as well as Great Plains and other accounting packages & other database competencies.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure of deadlines • Good organisational and time management skills
• Effective team member • Understanding of development issues.
• The person must be ready to travel approx. 20%

Desirable:

• Basic French Language

To apply: CVs should be submitted through our website at Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Ireland at the time of application.

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy accessible . These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.

Your Personal Data

During this job application, you will provide Concern with your personal data. Concern takes its responsibilities towards this personal data very seriously and is committed to complying with all relevant data protection legislation.

Concern receives a substantial amount of funding from external donors each year. Increasingly donors are introducing requirements whereby future funding is conditional on ensuring that the name of any employee or volunteer (existing or new), does not appear on terrorism lists generated by the European Union (List of person, groups and entities to which Regulation (EC No. 2580/2001 applies), the US Government (Office of Foreign Assets Control list of specially designated Nationals and Blocked Persons) and the United Nations (Consolidated List).

Any offer of employment (either paid or voluntary) with Concern Worldwide will only be made following a successful clearance check being conducted on the applicant and such checks may be updated periodically during the course of the period of employment.

By submitting a formal application for paid or voluntary employment to Concern, you agree to Concern carrying out a clearance check as outlined above and that Concern will not proceed to recruit you should your name appear on any of the aforementioned lists

In certain circumstances, donors may request that personal data relating to employees to work on the activities that they fund be provided directly to them – so that they can perform their own counter terrorism checks. This may involve transferring some basic personal data outside the EEA. It will be a condition of your employment contract that Concern be allowed to share this information with institutional donors for these purposes.

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Please only apply for this position if you are satisfied with the proposed processing of your personal data as outlined above.

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Expected salary

€54550 – 62286 per year

Location

Dublin

Job date

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 01:45:12 GMT

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