Start date: ASAP

Length contract: 24 months

Based in: Juba, South Sudan

Are you a Fully qualified chartered accountant with ACCA, ACA, CPA, or equivalent? Tearfund South Sudan Programme has an exciting role of Senior Finance Manager for a professional and qualified Accountant.

As a key member of the Country’s Senior Management Team, the Senior Finance Manager (SFM) provides strategic financial leadership, ensuring that Tearfund’s financial strategy aligns with the country’s overall objectives and supports the expansion of the funding portfolio. The SFM will lead initiatives in change management, process improvement, and robust financial management within the Country Programme.

The Senior Finance Manager is accountable for all financial operations, including comprehensive grant management, audits (both internal and external), statutory reporting, partner financial management, budgeting (both corporate and donor-related), financial risk management, treasury management, and management accounting. Serving as the primary finance business partner to the Country Director (CD), the SFM is expected to offer proactive, responsive financial support, analysis, and guidance to the Country Leadership Team.

The role requires close collaboration with regional and global finance teams to ensure that Tearfund’s and donors’ financial policies and procedures are effectively implemented in the Country Programme. Additionally, the SFM will be responsible for the training and development of in-country finance staff and maintaining strong relationships with external stakeholders, including donors, auditors, banks, among others.

Do you have proven experience of:

• Finance leadership
• Financial planning, budgeting and financial risk management
• Financial management of high compliance institutional donor funds (USAID, EU/ECHO, BMZ, FCDO, UN, etc.)
• Designing and implementing financial controls, procedures and process improvement
• Implementing projects through local partners
• Team leadership and line management experience
• Mentoring, training and development staff (finance and non-finance)

Are you:

• Able to accommodate changing priorities and to remain calm under pressure.
• Able to demonstrate skills in working cross culturally
• Able to communicate excellently complex financial data to non-finance staff
• An excellent leader with strong management and organising skills
• Are you fluent in English

If the above describes you then please have a look at the Job Description attached and do apply!

Applicants must be committed to Tearfund’s Christian beliefs. We would expect applicants to be able to demonstrate a clear and specific desire to work in this country

The recruitment process includes specific checks related to safeguarding issues. In addition, personal identification information will be submitted against a Watchlist database to check against criminal convictions as a counter-terror measure.

Documents

• JD Senior Finance Manager – SSD Aug 24 s.pdf (0.73 MB)