Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Perform financial management activities for grants implemented by AFR AO and in the region (50%)
• Monitoring of financial performance against approved budget and deliverables
• Develop and manage a consolidated grants schedule for the AFR AO and individual AFR Countries
• Coordinate financial reporting with partners and sub-grantees
• Ensure compliance with donors’ requirements including procurement procedures
• Ensure proper coding and timely recording and reporting
• Perform desktop/onsite monitoring of financial and grant compliance
• Support Global Compliance and Donor Reporting (GCDR) function in donor reporting
• Perform donor reporting for grants not managed by GCDR
• Engage external project audits required by donors
• Support internal audits of the grants
• Participate in the capacity assessment, selection and engagement process of external implementing partners and Lead firms
• Review financial terms and budgets of subgrant agreements
• Review and approve the financial reports from subgrantees and other external implementing partners
• Provide capacity building of subgrantees and external implementing partners related to donors’ requirements

Finance Operations of AFR AO (35%)
• Provide overall management of AFR AO financial operations
• Provide strategic financial input to decision-making for all program areas
• Supports SD Business support in AO Budgeting
• Ensure adequate, timely and accurate reporting of financial activities for AFR AO and National Offices to senior management
• Ensure compliant local reporting for regional office
• Ensure compliance with local tax legislation (corporate tax, VAT, WHT, PAYE)
• Draft the annual financial statements of AFR AO
• Plan and coordinate the annual external audit of AFR AO
• Coordinate the internal audit of AFR AO
• Oversee AFR AO procurement process, ensure compliance with HFHI Procurement policy
• Oversee implementation of internal financial controls and procedures including timecards, contractor management, inventory management, etc.
• Oversee office operations and related administrative staff
• Support the AVP and the AFR program function in planning and budgeting efforts for AFR National Offices and branches, including project-based budgeting, pipeline evaluation and match funding requirements at both country and regional level.

Business Development (10%)
• Support the Go/No Go process for new opportunities including the evaluation of financial management capacity at regional, national and project levels, implications on match funding requirements and multi-year financial health of the entities involved
• Support budgeting and planning efforts for new bids including template development, budget reviews and workforce deployment/planning to allow for adequate capacity in the field and full cost-recovery

Talent Management and Capacity Building (5%)
• Manage the finance team including performance management, job planning, coaching and day to day oversight in line with Habitat standards
• Support the recruitment and selection of key financial management talent at national and project levels

Minimum Requirements:
• 8-12 Years of related experience, preferably within an INGO or international organization
• A university degree in Finance or a related field of study
• Robust knowledge of the East African and broader sub-Saharan African context
• Experience with budget preparation/compilation
• Experience within a federated network, preferably within a regional office
• Grant management and experience with large institutional donor funding (e.g. USAID, DFID, World Bank)
• Strong technical/system skills including enterprise scale accounting packages (Sun, SAP, Navision or equivalent), advanced Excel and designing financial reports
• Fluency in English; working knowledge of French preferred