Palestine Finance Manager

Handicap International - Humanity & Inclusion

YOUR MISSION:

Reporting to the Country Director, the Palestine Finance Manager is responsible for leading the finance teams, ensuring compliance with HI s standards and local rules in the finance field, financial strategy and steering and operational financial management within his/her area of responsibility.

Team managed: Finance Department.

Interacts with:

• Country head of department / SMT;
• Emergency division: Finance Specialist;
• Regional program: Finance & accounting team;
• Country Director, Area Managers, Operations manager, Log team, finance & accounting teams, project team.

Mission 1: Management

• Embodies HI's values on a daily basis (Manager as a role model).
• Understands the strategy, makes it explicit, translates it into operational objectives for his or her team, leads the necessary changes.
• Gives meaning to each management action.
• Encourages inter and intra departmental exchanges of practice and encourages innovation and risk-taking (Manager as coach for meaning).

Mission 2: Strategy and Steering

• Contributes towards the drafting, revision and implementation of the financial section of Operational Strategy (StratOp) within his or her area of responsibility area and in line with HI s financial policies;
• Oversees the breakdown of financial strategy into action plans and advises on financial issues.

Mission 3: Standards and Expertise

• Oversees the deployment and monitors compliance with all of HI s financial policies, processes and tools within his or her area of responsibility and, if necessary, develops specific financial tools overseen by his or her line and functional management;
• Directs and controls HI's compliance with the legal framework of the country or countries of intervention and monitors changes in standards and case law and in the practices of other stakeholders working in the finance field.

Mission 4: Operational Implementation

Responsibility 4.1: Ensures financial and budget management

• Supervises the drafting of budgets and verifies that HI s funds are being used in an optimal manner in her or his area of responsibility;
• Analyses the financial aspects of partnership agreements and checks the accuracy and conformity of partners accounts and documentation before payment.

Responsibility 4.2: Ensures accounts management

• Is the focal person on accounting issues.
• Ensures the accuracy and updating of accounts information and coordinates the process of reporting and compiling accounts information in accordance with the financial calendar;
• Directs the development of all accounting processes under his or her responsibility, ensuring their compliance with the accounting reference framework (procedures, tools) and their incorporation into of the accounting information system (IS);
• Consolidates, checks and validates all entries and documents for the monthly and annual closing of accounts, in particular bank reconciliations, justification of payable and receivable accounts and monitoring of fixed assets.

Responsibility 4.3: Ensures the financial management of institutional funding in compliance with donor guidelines and contractual obligations

• Directs the drafting of funding proposals for institutional donors and the construction of funding schedules;
• Controls monitoring expenditure against funding and reports to the budget holders. Monitors consumption rates, issues alerts in the event of a risk of non-compliance with the flexibility rules and anticipates slippage by preparing contractual amendments with his or her interlocutors;
• Supervises and coordinates the production and quality of financial reports for donors by checking compliance with donor guidelines;
• Coordinates responses to requests from internal and external auditors and ensures the successful conclusion of audits, defining any corrective actions to be implemented.

Responsibility 4.4: Ensures cash-flow management

• Is the focal person on cash-flow issues.
• Examines, formalises and optimises requests for funds in order to ensure the availability of cash in cash boxes and bank accounts and meet the financial needs of the mission.
• Ensures the provisioning of cash boxes, contributes to bank reconciliation operations, carries out cash box/safe inventories for monthly and annual closings;
• Provides any documents relating to cash management requested by internal and external auditors, as well as the documents required to meet banking compliance requirements within his or her area of responsibility.

Mission 5: Profession facilitation

Puts in place and monitors the elements of his or her profession that fall within his or her area of responsibility: dissemination, use and contribution to revisions of standards, monitoring of recommendations for the skills development of the teams, etc.

Mission 6: Emergency preparedness and response:

Leads the emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure HI s quick and efficient response.