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Finance Manager

African Parks

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Finance

Accounting

Gambela

9 years

1 Position

2025-10-31

to

2025-12-01

Required Skills

analyse financial risk

Fields of study

Accounting

Finance

Full Time

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Job Description

The Finance Manager oversees all financial activities, ensuring accurate and timely reporting and compliance with international standards. Key duties include managing accounting processes, budgets, cash flow, assets, payroll, and audits. This role provides financial guidance, supports staff training, and helps implement financial systems. Strong leadership and financial expertise are essential.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Accounting and Reporting

  • Maintain and update accounts to ensure an efficient financial information system compliant with international standards and legal requirements.

  • Review accounting transactions (e.g., vouchers, invoices, journal entries) before entry into the accounting system.

  • Reconcile all balance sheet accounts monthly.

  • Provide guidance and coaching to accounting staff to ensure accurate, correct, and complete transaction recording.

  • Supervise monthly and yearly closing processes.

  • Ensure timely financial reporting to Park Management, APN, and other stakeholders.

  • Prepare and discuss periodic financial performance reports with park management.

Treasury and Cash Management

  • Prepare monthly cash flow projections and monitor fund availability for operations and projects.

  • Reconcile disbursement accounts, intercompany accounts, petty cash, and bank balances with records, ensuring reviews and sign offs by park management.

Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting

  • Assist in the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process, ensuring compliance with assumptions, guidelines, and policies.

  • Monitor departmental budget performance and recommend improvements.

  • Provide cost data to program personnel for budget preparation and updates.

Fixed Asset Management

  • Conduct an annual inventory of fixed assets to determine their location and condition.

  • Ensure accurate depreciation in accordance with APN’s policy and adequate protection of assets.

  • Prepare requests for approval to dispose of missing, lost, stolen, damaged, or obsolete equipment.

Internal Control 

  • Continuously review internal controls to ensure accurate financial information, asset protection, adherence to policies, and smooth implementation of plans.

Payroll

  • Ensure systems and procedures for accurate payroll preparation and disbursement in compliance with statutory requirements.

  • Review and sign off monthly payroll, verifying amounts to be paid to staff.

Due Diligence and Audit

  • Coordinate external audits with the Head of Finance, prepare draft financial statements and necessary notes, and draft responses to audit management letters.

  • Ensure the closure and resolution of audit findings

Job Requirements

Education and Experience

  • Master’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

  • At least 9 years’ experience in a similar role, with 5 years in a senior position.

  • Strong understanding of accounting, finance, and management principles.

  • Exceptional math skills.

  • Exceptional communication skills delivered both verbally and in writing.

  • Skills in managing, organizing, planning, and implementing assigned tasks under pressure of frequent and tight schedules.

  • Ability to gather and analyze data and to work with figures.

  • Strong ability to apply good judgment and decision-making skills in difficult and complex working environments.

How To Apply

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to ethiopiarecruitment@africanparks.org by Monday, 25th November 2025. Please mention the position name in the subject line of the email. Please ensure that any emailed file names are labelled in the following manner: 

Name_Cover Letter_Finance Manager.pdf

Name_Curriculum Vitae_Finance Manager.pdf

In case you do not hear from us within two weeks after the closing date, this means that your application was not successful. We thank you for your interest in working for African Parks.

Fields Of Study

Accounting

Finance

Skills Required

analyse financial risk

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