Category:  National

Location:  Ramallah/West Bank, Palestine, State of

Reference:  13276

Final date for application: 

Financial Controller (m/f/x) - Ramallah

Enabel is the Belgian development agency. It implements Belgium’s governmental cooperation. The agency also implements actions for other national and international donors. With its partners in Belgium and abroad Enabel offers solutions addressing pressing global challenges: Climate Change, Urbanisation, Human Mobility, Peace and Security, Economic and Social Inequality, and Global Citizenship. With 1,500 staff, Enabel manages about 150 projects in twenty countries, in Belgium, Africa and the Middle East.

Enabel Palestine is seeking to recruit a highly qualified candidate to fill the position of a Financial Controller. This person will be a member of Enabel team working for two interventions "Skilled Young Palestine & Local Government Reform and Development Reform and Development Programme". S/he will be working at the Enabel office in Ramallah. The period of assignment is 3 years.

Job description

Under the supervision of the Responsible Financial and Administrative (RAF), the Financial Controller will ensure:
1) the quality of financial information to allow decision-making and contribute to efficiency and effectiveness with which operations are conducted which must lead to the achievement of the objectives of the intervention
2) mastery of fiduciary risks.

Responsibilities

1) Ensure verification and support to the preparation of budgetary planning and monitoring in order to allow for qualitative budget management.
• Verify the monthly financial statements;
• Verify the correctness of budget planning;
• Provide support to the elaboration of budget change proposals and validate them following Enabel guidelines;
• Produce periodic budget monitoring reports, including analysis and recommendations;
• Analyse functioning costs and costs of activities and formulate recommendations in view of improving the efficient use of funds;

2) Ensure follow-up of treasury operations in order to ensure that suppliers/beneficiaries/etc. are paid correctly and in due time:
• Check the cash call requests;
• Analyse the treasury position and prepare the request for funds to be submitted to the RAF;
• Authorise the payments;
• Carry out the banking reconciliation;
• Ensure the daily management of banking relations;

3) Control the reporting on Grant/’ASC’ Agreements in order to ensure expenditure is in compliance with the Grant Agreements:
• Contribute to the organisational assessments;
• Control the financial reports and the instalment requests;
• Prepare the conclusions regarding feedback to be sent to the contracting beneficiaries/partners:
• Provide opinion to the RAF regarding disbursement requests pertaining to the instalments of the grants;
• Plan and carry out control missions of the contracting beneficiaries;
• Prepare and support the eventual external (administrative and financial) audits of the beneficiaries.

4) Analyse fiduciary risks, follow up the internal control and audit action plans in order to put the risks in the spotlight and minimise the impact:
• Prepare self-evaluation questionnaires of financial management;
• Support the preparation of audits; 
• Support the implementation of audit recommendations and internal controls;
• Ensure that rules and procedures in force within the intervention are updated and in conformity with the rules and procedures of Enabel and other donors;

5) Capacity development of partner entities in order to contribute to the improvement of their organisation, processes and systems and of their staff’s competences:
• Participate to and support the evaluation of needs and the implementation of a capacity development plan for the beneficiaries; 
• Support the elaboration of supporting and management tools in favour of the partner entities;
• Support the intervention in the financial, accounting, administrative and logistical domains.

Level of Education Required for the Job

Master's degree in Management, Finances-Accounting.

Secondary education +5

Specific competences or knowledge required:

- At least 5 years of professional experience in financial management.  
- Experience in auditing, risk management and in financial management in the public sector.   
- Experience with team management.  

Specific competences or knowledge considered an asset:

- Good knowledge of ICT applications. 
- Experience in an international environment is an asset. 
- Good knowledge of financial management. 
- Use of financial software. Experience with the use of an ERP tool is an asset.

Location of the Post

Enabel Ramallah Office

Languages

Good knowledge of Arabic and English 

Are you interested?

Apply here on-line with an application letter and your updated CV, at the latest by 03/01/2021

Only applications that are registered here via our on-line portal will be considered. 

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