Necessary Competencies / Experience
Key skills/ characteristics required:
• Master in accounting and finance management or business management with at least five years of proven financial management experience at senior management level
• Experience of Not-for-profit accounting is considered an advantage.
• Good personnel management skills, with the ability to lead and motivate a multi-disciplined, multi-cultural team.
• Proven resilience to heavy workload with tight deadlines and capacity to take decisions, even under stress.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with sensitivity to cultural differences and ability to work with distance management.
• Analytical and strategic planning skills and ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Ability to present information and concepts clearly, both verbally and in writing. Fluency in English, spoken and written required.
• Advanced skills with MS Excel. Proficiency with MS Word. Experience in using Quickbooks or equivalent systems and use of MS Access databases is an advantage.
• Administrative experience with knowledge of establishing and maintaining office systems.
• Knowledge of Danish or German can be considered as an advantage.
The ideal candidate will also demonstrate a strong commitment to the vision and values of Mission East.
HOW TO APPLY:
To apply for this position, please visit: http://www.miseast.org/en/mission-east-organisation/vacancies where you will be able to complete an application form.
Please ensure that all sections are fully answered as candidates will be initially screened using data submitted on the online form.
The closing date for completed applications is February 4th 2018.
Position Title: Finance Director
Location / department: Brussels Office, with travel to Copenhagen and field locations as required.
Length of contract: This is a permanent position.
Responsible to: Managing Director
Line Management of: Finance Manager and Controller Brussels, Doted Management of Office & Finance Manager Copenhagen, and Finance & Admin staff in the field.
Background
Mission East, founded in Denmark in 1991, is an international humanitarian organisation, carrying out relief and development programmes in Eastern Europe and Asia.
More information on Mission East can be found at: www.miseast.org.
Overall responsibility
Lead the Finance team in the provision of financial management service to 3 organisations: Mission East, Active Mission and Mission East Deutschland.
Financial advice to the boards of the organisations, Managing Director and Management Team. This includes: financial & strategic budgeting and planning: management of reserves; risk management; treasury & cash flow management; financial and management accounting; legal and donor reporting; management of donor financial compliance.
Key tasks and responsibilities
Leadership
• Overall leadership and management of Mission East Finance Teams
• Provision of regular Finance updates and briefings to Managing Director, as necessary.
• Coordinate the work of Finance teams with other teams (Operations, Marketing).
• Participation in Management Team meetings and business.
• Brief the Board on Finance matters as required or requested.
Strategy
• Develop and ensure implementation of Finance Team strategy, in line with organisational Mission, Vision and Direction and in coordination with other team strategies.
• Provide input to overall strategy and other team strategies, as appropriate.
Line management
• Direct line management of Finance Manager and Controller, doted management of Copenhagen Office & Finance Manager, indirect management and supervision of country finance teams.
Quality, Compliance and Standards
• Policy. Development and enforcing of Finance related policy (including procurement). Input and review of other organisational policies.
• Donor compliance. Monitor and enforce compliance to donor financial rules.
• Procurement. Oversee compliance with Mission East and Donor procurement rules.
Finance Management
• Identify, manage and report of financial risk.
• Manage Mission East reserves in line with policy to ensure long term financial security of Mission East.
• Financial Budgeting & planning: Prepare and oversee budgets for headquarters, countries and projects.
• Internal reporting: Prepare and supervise financial reports to board, Managing Director, other departments and projects.
• Legal reporting: Prepare Annual Financial Report and other legally required Financial reports at Headquarters. Oversee compliance with legal reporting and requirements in field offices.
• Donor reporting: Oversee and approve the financial reporting to Donors.
• Development and provision of internal audit services within Mission East.
• Oversee of organisations’s accounting systems.
• Oversee of control of implementing partners’ finances.
• Manages treasury and cash flow management.
• Oversee fixed assets management.
• Make decisions on use of external expertise and taking legal action in cases and investigations of corruption and fraud, following consultation with the Operations Director and Managing Director.
• Training: Provide training on finances for both financial and non-finance staff.
• In charge of the financial management of Active Mission: cash flow and reserve management, reports to the board, annual financial report and legal reporting.
Other
• Participate in Brussels team meetings
• Uphold and promote the Christian values of the organisation
• Special projects as needed and delegated by the Managing Director
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