ACTIONAID INTERNATIONAL
DIRECTORATE: Finance and IT
Position: Financial Planning and Reporting Manager
Location: Johannesburg
Salary: £45 489 Grade E
Purpose of the Role:
Responsible for managing the long term and operational
financial planning and reporting for the Federation and the International
Secretariat, including aggregated financial reports for the organisation
on a quarterly and annual basis and for the review of these reports.
Key responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Working
with Planning, develop appropriate instructions, guidelines and tools for
long term planning for inclusion in the Strategic Implementation plan; and
short term planning for both 1 year operational and 3 year plans for the
Federation and the International Secretariat;
- Review
plan data from all entities and review variances and performance as
appropriate
- Working
with Finance colleagues to identify data collection and financial analysis
for the preparation of regular and timely reports for management,
governance (Finance & Funding Committee and International Board) and
decision making groups.
- Produce
timely regular financial organisation-wide information to International
Fundraising, Programmes and other functions as required.
- Liaises
with external audit and countries to plan and coordinate the annual
aggregation and audit process to ensure delivery within strategy and
timelines;
- Ensures
relevant financial policies and procedures are maintained and
documentation kept up to date (including Financial Management Framework);
- Work
with Finance, IT and other stakeholders on developing/improving reports,
systems and tools for delivery of core responsibilities;
- Lead
and manage the process for compilation of financial data for
the organisation held on TM1 or otherwise
- Design
appropriate reports (using TM1 where appropriate) to meet key reporting
requirements, user requirements and improve existing reports
- Ensure
that the TM1 system is regularly maintained.
- Ensure
data integrity of data held on TM1.
- In
liaison with IT and the Financial systems team , lead the development and
upgrade of of TM1 or other financial systems(in case of a change).
- Recruiting
staff in line with AAI HR policies.
- Conducting
probationary reviews with staff and annual performance reviews
(performance management) to support staff development.
- Building
and motivating teams and managing effectively from a distance.
Desired Skills & Experience
The successful candidate will have:
- B.Com
Degree or Honors Degree and professional accounting qualification
- At
least 6-8 years accounting experience of finance department management,
including financial planning and reporting
- Experience
of working in an international environment
- Strong
analytical and management skills, with track record in management and
motivation of staff
- Strong
influencing skills – able to positively build peer working relationships
and be effective without having to rely on authority
- Experience
of financial consolidations, and aggregation packages
- Experience
of varied accounting environments with a proven track-record of process
improvement and implementation of best-practice
Application Procedures
Applications should be sent with your CV, motivation
cover letter by no later than XXX. You are requested to highlight in the
motivation letter how specifically you meet the criteria for this role. Please
clearly indicate which position you are applying for.
Internal Applications send to: applications.jhb@actionaid.org
External Applications send to: financeandit.jhb@actionaid.org
Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only
correspond with short listed applicants. Should you not have received
feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please
consider your application unsuccessful. ActionAid International will not
consider candidates from recruitment agencies. We reserve the right to
withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.
ActionAid International promotes diversity and welcomes
applications from all section of the community.
