JOB ADVERTISEMENT – Finance Coordinator - Hatay

SCI employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have contact with or access to children or young people

ROLE PURPOSE: 

This role will provide the primary financial and grants management inputs into Turkey Earthquake  response, and on-going support to develop best practice emergency financial and grants management procedures and processes.

The main aspects of the role are: Responding to Response emergency as the finance & grants focal person, working with other departments in country to ensure that there is a co-ordinated response in line with best practices.

SCOPE OF ROLE: 

Reports to: Earthquake Response Finance Lead

Staff directly reporting to this post: TBC

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: 

Cash & Bank

• Act as a custodian for the petty cash and cashbook
• Reviewing all documents submitted for payment to ensure proper procedures have been followed and tracking all programme and salary advances issued and returned
• To make sure all documents are uploaded online- payment folders and originals are properly stored
• Prepare all cash and bank transactions for posting into Agresso and ensuring coding and narrative are complete/correct
• Perform weekly cash counts and ensure book and actual balances reconcile and monthly bank reconciliation for all bank accounts

Partnerships

For delegated partners;

• Ensure that the expenditure partnership spending is compliant with Save the Children and donor policies
• Support partners in preparation of proposal budgets, reviewing to ensure costing is appropriate to activities in the sub-award proposals
• With finance lead, conduct finance elements of new partner capacity assessments and partner risk assessments
• Verify partner expenditure reports, through remote and direct visits, and provide audit summary with recommendations to finance controller
• Prepare end of award letters detailing accepted, disallowed and queried costs, and where applicable any balances owed to partners
• Liaise with Accounting to ensure the timely processing of payments to partners
• Support finance lead to provide finance and awards training and capacity building to partner finance and non-finance staff, through direct group, individual and remote support

Budgeting and Reporting

• Supports finance lead for Budgeting & Reporting in consolidating, maintaining and updating the Non-thematic and cross-thematic funding allocation schedule for country programme for fair allocation of support cost across the funding source.
• Assist Finance lead for Budgeting & Reporting in proposal budget preparation and modifications by reviewing and advising on proposed costs and justifications to make sure that the proposed budget is reasonable and realistic for the project needs, ensure full recovery of shared costs and is complaint per internal and external policies.
• Assist in preparation of Master Budget and Forecasts
• Prepare accurate and timely financial reports for the donors and monthly BvAs, attend the meetings to present finance in the field
• Prepare and process journal transactions wherever necessary.
• Prepare staffing costs allocation to awards/holding codes and monthly share costs allocation in line with SCI policies and procedures. 

Other

• Participate in procurements committees for field office procurement if needed
• Provide finance induction to new joiner to be based in field and to ensure efficient and effective support him/her received
• Perform any other duties and tasks, which are commensurate with the responsibilities and level of the post

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND ATTRIBUTES

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or other related field, individuals with practical experience will be considered
• Minimum of 4 years of experience of working in finance department with i/NGOs
• Experience in assessment and monitoring of partners
• Knowledge of finance and operational controls in regards to cash transfer programming
• A desire to learn and work in a challenging but rewarding environment
• Ability to work under pressure alone and as part of a team
• A strong sense of integrity
• Turkish and English language is required.
• Ability to operate in a changing environment: adaptable, flexible and supportive approach.
• Strong computer skills, especially on accounting packages.
• Willingness to travel to field offices occasionally

Desired

• Experience of working in emergency response and major donors experience
• Experience of working in an international/national charity
• Knowledge and experience on Turkish accountancy rules and regulations applying to international humanitarian organizations

Position holder will be based in Hatay, therefore legal right to work in Türkiye is necessary at the time of application. Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis.

Benefits Package provided to National Staff:

• Salary commensurate with the pay-grade of the position.
• Allowance as per relevant internal memorandum
• 20 days of annual leave
• Life and critical diseases insurance