Senior Finance Manager

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 33,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

International Assignment (WVI – Paid via GCLA) Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Job Description:

Position Purpose

Reporting to the Finance Director, the Senior Finance Manager leads all day-to-day accounting operations, with functional responsibility for accounting, accounts payable, payroll, accounts receivable and tax compliance. The position is responsible for the production of financial reports; ensuring proper maintenance of accurate accounting records; accurate processing of financial transactions; and administration of a comprehensive set of controls and budgets designed to mitigate risk, enhance the accuracy of the company’s reported financial results, and ensure that reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and result in unqualified audits. The position will focus on implementing financial strategies that best serve program objectives consistent with World Vision Sudan National strategy, Partnership Policies and donor requirements. The staff must be willing to change ideas and adapt plans to respond to changing needs and situations.

Major Responsibilites

Financial Planning and Budgeting

• Support the production of cash flow reports, annual budget, and forecasts.
• Facilitate the preparation, review and consolidation of the WV Malawi annual budgeting process and provide technical support in line with budgeting guidelines, FFM requirements and donor regulation (including GIK).
• Consolidate WVS annual budgets, including Support/Overhead budgets in accordance with GC and EARO budget guidelines
• Ensure accurate and complete program budgets are uploaded on Horizon and in Sunsystems.
• Review the alignment of budgets between projects, PBAS and support office ensuring PBAS is updated and reconciled monthly.
• Prepare project spending analyses reports and track project spending against budget through Variance Analysis, investigation and follow-up with the respective project.
• Provide technical support to projects in the Year-end closing procedures.

Financial Reporting And Analyses:

• Prepare and analyze accurate monthly financial and management reports, including income statement, balance sheet, budget and variance explanations, projections and forecasts, and the consolidate cash flow for all levels, including Senior Leadership Team and provide technical support to Zonal Finance Managers to prepare financial reports for the zonal and field offices.
• Provide financial analyses and models as needed for management decision making and strategic monitoring of project performance
• Coordinate and oversee the preparation of organizational performance scorecards and monitor benchmarks against which to organizational performance is measured and implement agreed corrective compliance measures.
• Coordinate the preparation of the draft annual financial statements and all required statutory tax and other returns
• Coordinate roll out of NO/EARO/GC key initiatives

Financial Transaction Processing and Accounting

• Maintain Chart of accounts and ensure SunSystems records are maintained for all transactions and assets.
• Ensure that all financial transactions are processed accurately, in a timely manner, and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Develop, implement, and maintain processes and controls that are current best practices related to transaction processing.
• Manage, oversee, process (as appropriate), and review processing for the following transactions: payroll, accounts payable, revenue and expense, fixed assets, cash, bank reconciliations, and account allocations.
• Oversee and perform month-end closing procedures, including overhead allocations, account reconciliations, and updating schedules.
• Maintain an orderly accounting filing system for accounting records

People Management and capacity building

• Provide leadership to finance and accounting areas of the organization supervising Finance staff in accounting.
• Recruit, retain, supervise, train and develop all the staff in the department assigning jobs relevant to accounts payable, accounts receivable etc.
• Oversee Finance new-hire orientation and onboarding, coaching and training for Finance and program staff on financial matters.
• Support the Grants Finance Manager in ensuring accurate charging of allocated support costs to grants.
• Maintain up-to-date job descriptions for the Finance Accounts team and ensure Performance Evaluations and work plans are in place.
• Share and replicate finance management best practices with the  project teams in order to ensure improvement in financial management

Audit Coordination, Risk Management and Compliance

• Prepare and assist with developing audit schedules for the annual audit.
• Suggest improvements in processes to increase organizational effectiveness
• Coordinate and support execution of Internal, External, and GC audits, resulting in no adverse audit results.
• Conduct orientation of staff on internal controls, procedures and Fraud and anti-corruption awareness training when needed.
• Regularly review and implement efficient and effective internal control systems.
• Review and implement prior audit recommendations.
• Identify, mitigate and report Finance and support services risks.

Knowledge/Qualifications For The Role

Required Professional Experience

Minimum of 5 years of finance and accounting experience, including finance, accounting, audit, and analysis (including gathering, evaluating, presenting, and reporting financial information to management and external stakeholders).

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. ( MBA Preferred)
• CPA or ACCA required.
• Minimum of 5 years of finance and accounting experience, including finance, accounting, audit, and analysis (including gathering, evaluating, presenting, and reporting financial information to management and external stakeholders).
• Experience managing statutory and donor audits
• Demonstrated high proficiency levels of Sun Systems
• At least 5 years of valuable experience working in fragile and complex context
• ​Good knowledge and understanding of humanitarian and response work

Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Build an inclusive and safe environment
• Sustain focus on what matters most and hold others accountable
• Achieve results by empowering others
• Take opportunities to learn, grow, develop and improve performance.
• Partner effectively with others to make a bigger difference and increase impact
• Show responsibility and reliability in fulfilling work duties
• Show willingness to change ideas and adapt plans to respond to changing needs and situations
• Proactive, hands-on manager who will own, in partnership with the Finance Director, responsibility for the Finance Department.
• Strategic thinker who possesses solid business acumen and is able to organize and manage multiple priorities.
• Exceptional verbal and written communications skills and the ability to interact effectively with others, both internally and externally.
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to perform multiple tasks and meet critical deadlines while maintaining accuracy and quality.
• Proven ability to make complex and time-sensitive decisions in the best interests of the organization.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

The position will be based in the field level dependent on visa issuance process

Physical Requirements

HEAT Training, and ability to travel to the field

Language Requirements

English

Application deadline : 10th October 2025

Applicant Types Accepted:

Local and International Applicants (IA's) Accepted