Finance Controller/ Maternity Coverage

PRESENTATION OF HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL

Humanity & Inclusion is an independent and impartial international aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our action and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs, improving their living conditions and promoting respect for their dignity and their fundamental rights.

Humanity & Inclusion is a not-for-profit organization with no religious or political affiliation. It operates as a federation made up of a network of associations that provide it with human and financial resources, manage its projects and implement its actions and social mission.

For more details on the association: http://www.hi.org/

MISSION CONTEXT

The Syrian crisis is the greatest humanitarian crisis of the last 20 years. According to the latest UN figures, about 13.5 million people are currently affected by the crisis in Syria, including about 6.5 million IDPs, while over 4 million Syrians have sought refuge in neighbouring countries or in Europe. The current humanitarian response only provides a patchy and partial coverage of the growing humanitarian needs. Five years after the beginning of the crisis, the number of injured persons in Syria keeps rising, with a severe lack of rehabilitative care and psychosocial support. In hard-to-reach areas and/or areas of new displacement, local populations and IDPs are in need of emergency assistance in terms of food, household essential items, and other basic needs. The inclusion of the most vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, in the humanitarian response remains a major concern.

HI is managing a remote humanitarian program from three hubs in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, along four main pillars:

1. Support to health partners (hospitals, care houses, rehabilitation centers, local NGOs) for the provision of comprehensive rehabilitation services (physical rehabilitation, psychosocial support and/or prosthetics and orthotics) through training, technical supervisions and donations of rehabilitation material and/or equipment;
2. Provision of basic needs kits – Food baskets, Household Essential Items and Hygiene kits – in one-shot distributions to people who experience a sudden degradation of their living conditions due to renewed conflict, displacement and/or exclusion from humanitarian assistance;
3. Education to the risks and effects caused by conventional weapons (including mines, Explosive Remnants of War and Small Arms Light Weapons) and urgent marking of hazardous areas;
4. Training and technical support to other humanitarian actors on the inclusion of persons with disabilities and other vulnerable persons in the humanitarian response.

The current intervention is based on a mix of remote management of national teams and remote partnerships with local structures and organisations. HI has implemented some direct management programs in the past and is looking for ways to launch more in the coming months.

OBJECTIVES OF THE POSITION

The Finance Controller function is the breaking up of the accounts management skill of the Finance Manager, which he/she takes full responsibility, in particular for the integration, revision, correction, consolidation and validation of the accounts. He or she is also responsible for ensuring that supporting documents are archived and finance standards are met.

Hierarchical & Functional links:

• Line manager: Finance Manager

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

Mission 1 : Strategy and steering

• Produces, compiles and analyses finance indicators and creates additional indicators, if required.
• Is in charge of the assessment, mitigation and treatment of finance risks.
• Reports on incidents and their treatment to his or her line manager and functional managers.
• Leads the accountant capacity assessment of local partners and the resulting capacity building plans.

Mission 2 : Standards and expertise

• Directs the deployment and monitors compliance with all of HI’s finance policies, processes and tools within his or her scope of responsibility and, if necessary, develops specific finance 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.
• Ensures the presentation of the accounts in accordance with the legislation in force in his or her geographical area.
• Ensures compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• Ensures the publication and updating of finance documents in the dedicated workspaces.
• Oversees internal control in his or her area of responsibility, as well as any necessary corrective actions.

Mission 3: Operational implementation Responsibility 1 : Ensures accounts management

• Is the focal person on finance 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 finance processes under his or her responsibility, ensuring their compliance with the finance reference framework (procedures, tools) and their incorporation into of the finance Information System (IS).
• Consolidates, checks and validates all entries and documents for the closing of accounts (monthly and annual), in particular bank reconciliations, justifications of payable and receivable accounts and the monitoring of fixed assets.
• Ensures that applications for Value Added Tax (VAT) exemptions are filed and checks the declarations submitted to the authorities.
• Represents HI externally with the Statutory Auditors and/or authorities in charge of finance and tax matters.
• Ensures implementation of and compliance with procedure for archiving supporting documents, in particular by ensuring the quality of paper and digital supporting documents, and sends supporting documents (paper and digital format) to their final storage locations.
• Provides the supporting documents asked for by internal or external auditors.

Responsibility 2 : Participating in the recruitment of accountants

• Contributes towards the drafting of accountants’ job descriptions.
• Participates in recruitment interviews to validate the selected candidate’s technical skills and, if necessary, prepares and corrects technical recruitment tests.

Mission 4 : 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.
• Coordinates profession facilitation in his or her area of responsibility, fosters a team spirit and ensures the inclusion of all team members by encouraging regular contributions, especially through practice-sharing.
• Develops a pool of local talent.

Mission 5 : 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.

REQUIREMENTS

Education and experience:

– Experience with INGO is a strong asset

– Bachelor degree in finance

Professional & Personal skills:

– 3 years of experience working in the finance field Applicable

– Cash-flow management

– Accounts management

– Tax management

– Financial and budget management

– Financial management of institutional funding

Language:

– Arabic and English mandatory (oral and written)

JOB CONDITIONS

– Salary: 1638 JOD

– Starting date: 20/12/2023

– Duration/ Type of contract**: Three months – unrenewable**