Sudan: Director of Finance & Compliance, South Sudan

Director of Finance & Compliance

Department East Africa

Based in Juba, South Sudan

Reports to the Country Representative

Who we are

We're Population Services International (PSI), the world's leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to be healthy by providing access to products and services that range from mosquito nets to HIV testing.

There are over 9,000 “PSI'ers” around the world. It's a diverse group of entrepreneurs and professionals with an unusually wide range of backgrounds - from the medical industry to the music business - all with unique skills we bring to the job.

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The Director of Administration & Finance, working under direct supervision of the Country Representative will be responsible for providing leadership, technical support, supervision, and guidance to the finance and general administration teams, ensuring highest level of compliance and financial accountability across all units in PSI South Sudan. S/he will play a key role in ensuring that all PSI finance and administration teams have the required tools, processes and talent to meet their objective of acting as strategic partners to the rest of the organization. With an eye towards efficiency, the Director of Finance & Compliance will continuously seek to streamline process and identify opportunities to add value to a culture of high performance. S/he is the custodian of accounting and financial process to ensure PSI is compliant with donor and PSI global standards, but that the processes are enabling the implementing teams achieve program targets.

Sound like you? Read on.

Your contribution

Strategic leadership role:

• Provide direction and strategic leadership for organizational change and development processes with a particular focus on ensuring our finance and administrative processes support the program teams;
• Ensure administrative processes align with PSI South Sudan Strategic Objectives and can be accomplished in an efficient manner;
• Design and maintain internal systems that ensure accurate and timely reporting on financial and program performance;
• Work in close coordination with the Program Management Unit (PMU) to ensure PSI Sub recipients' full adherence to the grant management rules and donor compliance standards.

Financial reporting and policies:

· Establish and/or refine and disseminate policies, systems and practices and provide training and guidance for effective management, procurement, disbursement and accounting for all financial resources in line with PSI Washington's global accounting policies, funder requirements and local law where required;

· Lead monthly review and analysis of financial reports and reconciliations with attention to how resources can be better allocated to achieve program objectives.

Budgeting, Financial analysis and donor compliance:

· Lead the annual budgeting process;

· Validate monthly common cost analysis and update cost ratios to ensure each donor bears the correct proportion of common costs;

· Track and review departmental budgets in consultation with budget holders and finance team and conduct detailed activity status review and give input to C and budget holders;

· In coordination with PMU, prepare and track donor budgets and prepare modifications and activity realignments as necessary;

· In coordination with PMU and other unit heads, monitor performance and efficiency of on-going donor projects by analyzing country/project monthly spend rates and highlighting possible problem areas.

Technical support, audits and legal

· Support preparation and successful conclusion of internal and external auditing activities for the Country Representative (CR), PSI/HQ and for the donor annual audit reporting;

· Review management comments for audit reports and work with CR and managers to ensure appropriate action taken to correct audit findings;

· Monitor progress on work plans for implementation of audit recommendations from internal and external audits.

Legal and Compliance

· In collaboration with PSI Legal Counsel, minimize legal risk to the organization and engage any legal issues confronting the organization;

· Review and test controls to ensure PSI systems are compliant with PSI Global policies, donor requirements, as well as local laws;

· Ensure prompt preparation and submission of statutory returns, reports and tax compliance.

Team & Organizational Development

· Supervise PSI South Sudan finance teams;

· Design and oversee training programs to continuously improve individual and organizational capacity to take on additional responsibility and ensure highest standards of funds accountability, ethics and compliances.

Government and Donor Management

· As part of the team, ensure an understanding of donors administrative and financial requirements before entering and throughout the duration of the award;

· Ensure prompt preparation and submission of statutory returns, donor reports and tax compliance.

Operational management and administration:

· In coordination with HR Unit, oversee accurate and timely payroll generation;

· Coordinate with Operations Unit and regional offices to establish and support suitable accounting and administrative systems and personnel in all PSI field offices;

· Adherence to PSI Global Responsibilities Matrix on Approval limits for all approvals and procurement of goods and services

What are we looking for?

The basics

· MBA or with Finance degree with experience of working at senior management levels

· Minimum of 8-10 years of progressively responsible positions in a large-scale, non-profit or commercial environment

· Demonstrated leadership in working in with a large INGO finance and operations team in a nation-wide operations

· Strong knowledge of funder regulations, including Global Fund, DFID and USAID.

· Experience with ERP systems required. Strong working knowledge of spreadsheets.

What would get us excited?

Drive change and innovations: Act with urgency for continuous improvement and with a bias towards action; promote development of breakthrough solutions; embrace and advocate innovations that improve results; aggressively promotes the need for breakthrough improvements.

Develop others: Give people challenging assignments to develop their capabilities; provide timely coaching, instruction and feedback, create an environment where failure is seen as an opportunity to learn. Coaches others and helps them develop their knowledge and skills; give people authority to make decisions

Understand Donor and Development Perspective: See PSI from the donor point of view; understand the market forces that impact PSI; understand current donor strategy and where it is likely to lead in the future. invests time to understand the donor's priorities, procedures, and systems; Knows donor strategic plans and how they will impact PSI

Communicate and Share Information: Share information people need to make decisions or avoid problems; keep people informed about all issues that may affect them; Communicates clearly, concisely and to the point; Keeps people informed on a timely basis of change, key events and decisions that may affect them

Acting with Long Term Perspective: Take actions today to build a strong foundation for future success, identify and take advantage of emerging opportunities, keep PSI's long-term goals in mind when addressing short-term issues and problems.

STATUS

• Exempt
• Level 6

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

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