The Finance Director will provide leadership to the BHA-funded Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) consortium, including its constituent members, in financial management and accountability and compliance procedures. She/he will bring a systems thinking approach to identifying bottlenecks and improving efficiencies across the program implementation processes and structures. As a strong communicator and collaborator, the RRM Finance Director will work closely with their counterparts among the implementing organizations to quickly address identified gaps or challenges and share learning and experiences across partners. Both in routine annual budget and mid-year revision processes, she/he will bring a strong analytical skillset to evaluate activity costs, spending trends, patterns and make insightful recommendations based on this analysis. The RRM Finance Director will also support staff capacity building, structures and processes to ensure compliance with USAID and BHA rules, regulations, policies and reporting requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities

35% RRM Consortium Financial Leadership

• Provide leadership and direction for the RRM Consortium on all financial matters.

• Support RRM implementing partner’s systems and build key staff capacity to ensure financial management that effectively supports programming objectives and meets USAID and BHA rules and regulations, and individual organizational policies.

• As a member of the RRM Executive Committee, proactively identify and help find timely solutions to issues that arise over the course of program implementation and communicate specific learning and best practices among and across all RRM implementing partners.

​30% Effectively enable routine budgeting, spending analysis, and reporting processes to inform and support critical decision making at the RRM Consortium and Implementing partners levels.

• Support RRM annual budgeting processes with up-to-date analysis on actual activity-level costs, spending trends, and proposals for addressing gaps, improving efficiencies, and mitigating risks.

• Over the course of implementation, collaborate with RRM implementing partner’s program and finance teams to analyze spending patterns, update projections and support adaptive management processes to adjust to changes in the context or other unplanned developments or opportunities.

• Lead and coordinate effective financial analysis and reporting processes both for RRM Consortium leadership and external/USAID BHA reporting requirements.

20% Assess and improve financial management and communication systems

• In coordination with the NO finance team, support systems within all RRM implementing partners that empower program managers at all levels to have accurate, timely and useful spending information and analysis to improve accountability and enable adaptive management and effective implementation.

• Periodically assess the efficiency and effectiveness of finance procedures in support of timely implementation of program activities at optimum cost providing regular updates to the NO finance team.

• Provide coaching and support to key finance staff both at the consortium and implementing partner levels, requesting additional support from NO finance team as needed.

10% Sub awardee management and support

• In collaboration with the WVUS Senior Finance Program Manager, support sub awardee cashflow and advance management processes and quarterly sub awardee financial management review.

5% Audit support and NO request related to Finance reporting

• Coordinate and lead the support for any external or internal annual audit processes and lead the close coordination of finance reporting or requests with the NO.

Job Requirements

Required Professional Experience

• Excellent leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to understand and successfully navigate the interests of different stakeholders and find practical solutions to challenges during the course of program implementation.

• Minimum of five years of experience in financial management of large-scale, complex, donor-funded programs.

• Knowledge of USAID and/or BHA award management, policies, procedures, regulations and reporting requirements strongly preferred.

• Experience applying a systems thinking to organizational improvement and adaptive management. 

• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills.

• Experience building the capacity of staff in a broad range of areas related to financial management, including capacity building of sub awardee organizations and in financial audits.

Required Education, training, license, registration, and certification

• Advanced degree in finance, management, business administration, or related field.

• Preferred Knowledge and Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in accounting, financial management, human resources, procurement, and other management support functions.

• Advanced knowledge and MS Excel skills, and other business accounting packages.

Travel and/or Work Environment Requirement

• Travel up to 15% of time.

• Language Requirements

•  Fluent in English.

How to Apply

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