Field Financial Manager

Experience / Training

Main Objective

You’ll contribute to provide medical care to children and their families in crisis by being responsible for developing and managing financial tracking, resource flows, reporting and compliance for a specified portfolio of federal and non-federal grants/awards in support of MAGNA international programs. The Field Finance Manager provides technical financial support to the Operations Department and the field missions.

List of main activities:

• Reviews, supervises and ensures the regular production of the accounting reports from MAGNA field missions.
• Ensures the appropriate use of MAGNA financial resources.
• Oversees internal control processes, ensuring that MAGNA field missions are working in accordance with MAGNA internal financial procedures as well as all donor rules and policies.
• Proposes improvements in internal financial rules and organizes regular internal audits to check whether MAGNA field missions are compliant.
• Assists the Field Finance Controller in providing regular, accurate data to oversee the MAGNA field mission finances under his/her management.
• Supports his/her missions’ Finance Coordinators, providing technical guidance and coaching.
• Ensures compliance with funding agency regulations in a timely manner.
• Prepares, or oversees the preparation, of required reports to MAGNA and donor agencies (EU, ECHO, UN, etc.) based on field expenditures and allowable indirect cost rates.
• Assists the Operations Department in generating grant proposals by providing financial data as needed. Makes recommendations regarding budgeting to ensure reasonable provisions are included to meet general management, financial management, capacity-building and audit requirements.
• During the annual financial audit, serves as the contact with the auditors during field testing of international transactions and balance sheet items.

YOUR PROFILE

• Higher education, business school type, master’s degree in management / finance,
• NGO experience in a financial position in the field, or in a similar position is desirable,
• This post assumes a good mastery of accounting and management procedures, an understanding of the rules of the donors (ECHO, EU, UN …), extremely rigorous work, relational facilities with the various services and expatriates in the field,
• Mastery of the most common office software (Word and Excel), good command of English
• Knowledge of accounting software SAGA is desired

Salary

PROPOSED TERMS

Status

EMPLOYED with a Open-Term Contract

Compensation

MONTHLY INCOME (before taxation) : from 1,739 up to 2,300 Euros depending on the experience.

Job location: based in Prague/ or Bratislava (possible home office at any location for the sensitive time of pandemic situation) with occasional travel to the field.

How to apply

Interested applicants can send only their CV including education, qualifications, contact number and relevant documents: by email, to address

[email protected]

The email subject line MUST include in the title of email the following to be considered: “FIELD FINANCIAL MANAGER”. E-mails without job title will not be reviewed.

We thank all applicants for their interest but only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Please ensure that you provide appropriate contact information (e-mail, mobile, etc.) and 3 professional references.