Lead Financial Management Specialist

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

Dimensions of the Role

• Lead all financial management and reporting in at the national level, including supporting the Country Manager in maintaining efficient financial controls and budget development, management, and tracking, including donor reporting.
• Manage payroll and ensure LSP is meeting all related legal payroll tax requirements.
• Proactively engage in the budget development, implementation, and revision.
• Provide regular financial analysis and prepare fiscal year expenditure pipeline on each project component after each period closing in order to give recommendation for the budget holders and to track the approved fiscal year spending.

Accountabilities

1. Guides and facilitates the effective use of Donor funds 

• Lead all financial management and reporting at the national level, including supporting the Project Team Lead in maintaining efficient financial controls and budget development, management, and tracking, including donor reporting.
• Reviews cash request and ensure timely processing and requesting of monthly fund requirement of the program unit as per schedule.  Refresh cash request based on actual funds received on a by-weekly basis as per schedule.
• Reviews accuracy of General Ledger print-outs.
• Reviews Project Outlines and PO modifications as to accuracy of SAP codes, WBSE and budget availability as per approved operational plans.
• Reviews Project Completion Reports (PCR) expenditures against SAP and SAP BI reports.

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Location:                 Monrovia, Liberia

Type of Role:           Fixed Term Contract

Reports to:              Country Finance Manager

Grade:                      16

Closing Date:          24th September 2024

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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