JOB DESCRIPTION
The Finance Officer will be responsible for:
- Supporting the Finance Lead in implementing effective financial accountability and control systems, ensuring compliance with IPPFAR operational procedures and donor requirements.
- Performing checks on supporting documents and preparing monthly financial reports for review by the Finance Lead, including budget monitoring.
- Staying updated on financial compliance requirements for FON and J4S projects, maintaining financial program reports, including cash flow statements and reconciliation of project receipts and expenditures.
- Accurately recording all FON project costs in NetSuite, ensuring timely payment processing within 30 days of request.
- Coordinating with HR to ensure accurate and up-to-date payroll processes.
- Handling banking requirements for the project, including daily allowances, supplier payments, and other financial needs.
- Preparing inter-company payments and reports in NetSuite, ensuring timely and accurate payments to IPPFAR.
- Supporting program teams in financial monitoring, including attendance at weekly meetings.
- Assisting the Program Manager in maintaining a strong compliance framework, record-keeping, and risk management.
- Performing additional duties as discussed and agreed upon with the supervisor/Finance Manager.
Reporting/Management Responsibility:
- Directly reports to FON Finance Lead
- No supervisory responsibilities.
Expertise:
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Audit or equivalent.
- CPA or any other relevant professional qualifications (ACCA, CIMA).
- 3-5 Years’ Experience in Finance and Grants management, preferably in not-for-profit sector.
- Knowledge of donors’ requirements and procedures.
- Experience in using ERPs an added advantage.
- Strong excel and financial analytical skills.
Skills:
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Excellent skills in communication, interpersonal relations, and presentation, encompassing the capability to effectively convey intricate financial and business ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at various management levels, peers, and business units.
- Must demonstrate the ability to pay attention to details.
- Must promote knowledge sharing and learning.
- Must have a high level of integrity and flexibility.
- Must embrace continuous learning and improvement.
- Must demonstrate the ability to manage stakeholders.
- English and French are the working languages of IPPFAR. For this post fluency in French is required. Knowledge of French is an advantage.
- Experience working in a multicultural environment.
- Willing to work outside standard office hours as required.
Your Ethos:
- Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
- Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.
- An intersectional (pro) feminist passionate about sexual reproductive health care rights + justice, including safe abortion.
- Supportive of people’s rights regardless of sexuality or gender identity/expression and supportive of workers’ rights and access to health care in sex work.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested individuals should fill the application form attached below and submit a 1-page cover letter to the email with the job position you are applying for as the subject of the email by 9th March 2025. Please note that IPPFAR will not consider applications that are not done in the requested format.
Salary
Competitive
Monthly based
Location
, Merti, Isiolo, Kenya, Isiolo, Kenya
Job Overview
Location
, Merti, Isiolo, Kenya, Isiolo, Kenya
