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Chargé des Finances
Freelance5 months ago
Job Description
Dakar
CDI
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Head of Finance — ALIMA is recruiting for a position based in Dakar, under CDI contract of Senegalese law.
Functional and hierarchical links
The hierarchical and technical supervisor is the Deputy Administrative and Financial Director. The incumbent provides technical support to the staff of missions involved in the financial management of specific projects managed from ALIMA headquarters, and collaborates with Financial Desks on aspects related to these types of contracts where they exist. He does not have a team under his hierarchical responsibility.
He or she will be required to work closely with the research project manager and CORAL platform, the financial desk, the audit department, the head office accounting department, as well as the donor relations department, in the context of activities falling within its reporting scope.
Main duty
The post consists of the monitoring of all specific funding contracts managed from headquarters, non-aligned in mission countries. The incumbent is responsible for the preparation and proper development of this type of budget, in close collaboration with operational and/or research teams. He or she ensures the proper conduct of budget monitoring of all these portfolios managed from headquarters, and is responsible for presenting them and having them validated to the Deputy Administrative and Financial Director.
In addition to specific budgets and donation budgets, he or she will also be responsible for presenting the headquarters budget follow-ups and sharing them with all ALIMA services at headquarters. The objective is to enable the development of a culture of control over budget monitoring among the various service managers at ALIMA headquarters.
In addition, if the specific contract is managed from Dakar but with an impact on certain countries of operations, he or she will be required to carry out quality control missions in these projects, in order to supervise, support and produce a complete reporting of these types of financing contracts.
Main activities
Specific contracts headquarters ALIMA
The holder is responsible for the consolidation and preparation of budgets for specific cross-functional contracts managed from ALIMA headquarters. Under the direction of the Deputy Administrative and Financial Director, he or she:
Ensures the good monthly budget follow-up of ALIMA headquarters specific financing contracts (environmental contracts managed from headquarters, donation contracts managed from headquarters, and other new specific contracts to come).
Ensures the proper conduct of financial monitoring of ALIMA equity divided by service.
The multi-country budget allocation managed from ALIMA headquarters provides informed information for the purposes of good management to all employees. The incumbent follows the consolidated budget, alerts on risks and proposes corrective actions.
He or she consolidates the financial reporting and produces a quality report for ALIMA and donors.
Research contracts
Same as for cross-border contracts:
He or she follows the management of these contracts with dedicated and managed research project managers from headquarters.
He or she documents the good practices of research donors and uses them for financial reporting.
He or she carries out cost analyses related to accounting to ensure the consistency of accounting assignments, and proposes reallocations to the right contract codes.
Quality, risk management and audits
The holder participates in audits of contracts under his responsibility.
Education and experience
Level of study: Bac+3 in Financial Management, with specializations in accounting.
Expected experiences: at least 2 years in financial management, and 3 years in humanitarian context and management of public donors.
Very good knowledge and mastery of cost accounting. Mastery of SAGA, Odoo and other financial management software. Very good ability in Excel, with Macro formula creation. Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural context. Ability to transmit knowledge.
Languages
Knowledge of French and English is essential.
Qualities and skills
Rigor, good collaborative spirit and teamwork, reporting capabilities, risk analysis and management, agility and stress management.
Conditions
Duration and type of contract: Permanent contract under Senegalese law, position based at Dakar. Salary: according to ALIMA salary grid.
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