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JOB DETAILS DIVISION: Finance TEAM: Senior Finance officer grant/contract management 

LOCATION: Addis Ababa, 

Ethiopia 

CONTRACT TYPE: one year  

GRADE: D1, National

JOB FAMILY:  Finance  

SALARY:As per the Oxfam benefit package 

HOURS: 37.5 per week  

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. This is a full-time role; however, Oxfam offers various flexible arrangements which candidates can discuss with the Recruiting Manager at the interview stage

The Finance team will support the implementation of the program by working directly with Oxfam’s program staff and partners on the financial needs of the program to ensure donor grants/contracts are managed per the donor and Oxfam standard 

The senior finance officer grant/contract is responsible for supervising the Addis-based contracts, ensuring the legitimacy of the expenditure incurred in Addis Ababa, field offices, and assisting budget holders in ensuring expenditures are within the approved budget. To provide an efficient, relevant, timely grant management service to program managers, budget holders, and external donors. This includes budget, government reports internal BVA at a level of detail necessary to manage budgets effectively, external donor reports per formats and timeliness set contractually, and ensuring allocation of cost policies are complied with

Job Requirements

Most importantly, every individual at Oxfam GB needs to be able to: 

• Live our values of INCLUSION, ACCOUNTABILITY, EMPOWERMENT, SOLIDARITY, COURAGE, AND EQUALITY 

Our Values 

• Equality: We believe everyone has the right to be treated fairly and to have the same rights and opportunities. 

• Empowerment: We acknowledge and seek to expand people’s agency over their lives and the decisions that impact them. 

• Solidarity: We join hands, support, and collaborate across boundaries in working towards a just and sustainable world. 

• Inclusiveness: We embrace diversity and difference and value the perspectives and contributions of all people and communities in their fight against poverty and injustice. 

• Accountability: We take responsibility for our actions and inaction and hold ourselves accountable to the people we work with and for. 

• Courage: We speak truth to power and act with conviction on the justice of our causes. 

• Ensure you commit to our THREE ORGANISATIONAL ATTRIBUTES:

1. Be committed to equal opportunities: demonstrating 

sensitivity to culture differences and gender equality. 

2. Be willing to learn and apply gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity and inclusion across all aspects of your work. 

3. Be committed to undertaking 

Oxfam’s safeguarding training and adhering to relevant policies, to ensure all people who come into Oxfam are as safe as possible. 

• Ensure you actively ADOPT OXFAM’S FEMINIST LEADERSHIP APPROACH and applying the principles and twelve practices in your work. Read more about this here: 

For this role, we have selected two of the most relevant feminist Leadership practices for this role (which you can read more about here. 

1. Self-Awareness 

2. Mutual accountability 

3. Strategic Thinking and Judgment

Responsibilities and Accountabilities 

Financial Planning

• Ensures a high forecasting standard in line with the country program plans across the Country Programmed and ensures compliance with Donor and Oxfam accounting policies and procedures.

• Ensures correct coding of income and expenditure in Oxfam’s accounting system, PeopleSoft.

• Provides the necessary checks and balances to ensure that money is spent effectively, efficiently, and in line with donor requirements.

• Analyze project expenditure to ensure value for money and provide feedback to the HFS.

• Ensure all share cost recharges are posted to the finance system (PeopleSoft) in line with the Oxfam and donor requirements with a clear and logical audit trail.

• Ensure all projects are currently mapped and phased at the start of each project with monthly forecasts.

• Ensure that all Oxfam offices consistently meets all donor and Oxfam rules and regulations pertaining to finance and procurement.

  Financial Budgeting

• Supports budget holders to produce quality budgeting information.

• Provides advice to budget holders on budget management and phasing.

• Works closely with budget holders and is responsible for compilation and consolidation of financial information for annual budgeting purposes.

• Maintain a database of costing to enable cross-project evaluations and assist the Donor Accountants in the preparation of new project budgets in coordination with technical staff, logistics and support staff in reference with the Global Budget.

Reporting

• • Periodically prepares and disseminates, to budget holders, actual v budget variances highlighting trends, areas of concern, and risks; updates the forecast ledger in PeopleSoft.

• • Responsible for consolidation of the financial report and contract reconciliation for the Country Programme and external donors. Identifies and explains significant/extraordinary variances in the financial report.

• • Co-ordinates the donor reporting schedules provided by the funding department to the Donor Accountants, Programme Managers, and field finance staff.

• • Works along with the auditors to provide necessary documents for fulfilling their audit fieldwork related to the project.

• • Review donor financial reports in conjunction with programme managers, technical staff, and finance officers on a timely basis and at the frequency required by the donor.

How to Apply

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