FINANCE AND CONTROLLING COORDINATOR

Established in 1949, SOS Children's Villages is a dynamic social development international organisation working globally to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of orphaned and vulnerable children.

Mission of position:

Contributes to the overall mission of Finance & Controlling which is :

• To enable transparency, accountability as well as the efficient and proper use of funds in the Federation.
• To provide services to Member Associations especially policies, tools, consulting, training and monitoring.
• To coordinate the allocation of programmes to funding partners and co-ordinate and execute the flow of funds between these funding partners.
• To manage financial risks of the Federation on an on-going basis, focusing on accountability in the use of resources and sustainability in the federation-wide funding model.
• To provide information relevant to management and legal bodies for controlling and decision-making.
• To see the Finance and Controlling role as an integral part of the Federation and act as financial business advisors while ensuring fiduciary compliance

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

Finance & Controlling Services for the Federation

• Participate in the development and update of financial policies and quality standards and implement these policies
• Support maintenance of master data in finance systems

Finance & Controlling Services for Member Associations (MAs)·

• Provide financial information to support the linking of needs and funds
• Provide financial information to International Office (IO) to support the management of Promoting and Supporting Association (PSA) portfolios
• Support Member Association´s (MAs) budgeting process, check quality of MA budgets and monitor budget execution within the given financial frames
• Support MAs in accounting, check data quality and import accounting data
• Support MAs in managing local and international funds
• Support MAs in developing & implementing sound internal control systems, and participate in internal audits in Mas
• Support the management of the MAs to ensure effective implementation of internal audit recommendations
• Support MAs in external financial audit process and quality check the MA audits
• Support MAs in statistical data collection
• Build finance capacity in MAs
• Support in crisis cases
• Ensure implementation of finance related international policies, standard and guidelines in MAs
• Support management in financial planning and preparation of MA budgets
• Support management in monitoring the MA budgets
• Support Member Support Advisor in replying and coordinating finance-related PSA/GSC information requests

Finance Services for General Secretariat (GSC)

• Support MAs in the accounting of membership fees
• Support the preparation of the budgets of the regional / branch office
• Prepare accounts for the regional / branch office
• Prepare for external financial audit process for the regional / branch office

Treasury & Risk Management

• Support MAs in their liquidity planning and quality check MA liquidity plans
• Support MAs in their bank relations

Finance Systems Support

• Implement and give first level user support for MAs for the SOS controlling system LUCY (Finance modules), the accounting and HR software Dynamics NAV and the Budget Entry Tool

How to apply:

Applications with a covering letter and three traceable email reference contacts to be sent by 3 August 2014 toESAF.HROD@sos-kd.org

Kindly note that due to number of positions being dealt with, only short listed candidates will be contacted.