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Regional Finance Manager, Senegal

Swisscontact
📍 Dakar 🇸🇳CDI🗓️ about 2 months ago

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Dakar
CDI

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Regional Finance Manager, Senegal Organization: Swisscontact Country: Senegal City: Dakar Office: Swisscontact in Dakar Key Responsibilities Ensure sound financial management, donor compliance and audit readiness across the MEWANA region. Coordinate regional financial reporting, budgeting,

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forecasting, cost allocation, indirect cost recovery and

performance analysis. Monitor financial controls, governance requirements and risk management processes, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and Corporate Finance requirements. Coordinate donor financial management for regional and multi-country projects, including financial compliance, grant setup, expenditure-eligibility monitoring, donor reporting, audit support and grant close-out, while ensuring alignment with organisational policies, governance requirements and Corporate Finance standards. Develop and maintain financial dashboards, KPIs and management reporting. Drive effective use of financial systems, reporting tools and ERP solutions. Build finance capacity and promote knowledge sharing across country offices. Oversee regional treasury and cash-management matters, including cash-flow forecasting, liquidity monitoring, bank-account governance and foreign-exchange exposure. Drive effective use and governance of financial systems, reporting tools and ERP solutions, including finance-system interfaces, user access, data quality, systems rollouts and training. Monitor compliance with financial procurement controls and vendor due-diligence requirements across the region. Act as a trusted finance business partner to regional management and global finance functions. Requirements Professional qualification in Finance and Accounting (ACCA, CPA

Expérience

or equivalent). Minimum 8 years of experience in financial and operational accounting. Experience working in international and multi-country environments. Strong knowledge of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting

and internal controls. Advanced Excel skills; experience with ERP systems, Power BI and financial reporting tools. Experience with donor-funded projects and donor compliance is an advantage. Fluent English and French, both written and spoken. Demonstrated integrity, accountability and sound professional judgement. Strong communication, collaboration, change-management and stakeholder-management skills. Proactive, solution-oriented and independent working style, with the ability to manage competing priorities. Willingness to travel occasionally. Reporting line: Head Global Project Accounting. We look forward to receiving your online application with the following documents: letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, diplomas and references. Tags accounting and reporting financial management international finance project accounting regional programmes Skills Financial Management Donor Compliance ERP Systems English and French Stakeholder management The recruiting organization, Swisscontact, has not specified a closing date for this vacancy or continues to list jobs after their stated closing date. Because such positions may remain open, they are listed here until removed from the recruiting organization's website.

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