Finance Assistant (Red Sea) – SAVE THE CHILDREN

Job Description

Job Identification	11625
Job Category	Finance
Posting Date	30/04/2025, 05:55 pm
Apply Before	11/05/2025, 01:59 am
Locations	Red Sea

ROLE PURPOSE:

The Finance Assistant will be responsible for overall budget monitoring, accepting accounting practices, reporting, and reviewing transactions for accuracy and compliance with internal policies and donor regulations. The Finance Assistant works with the program operation teams, the finance and the award teams at the field and Khartoum levels to ensure that the program operation meets the SCI/donor requirements, including the delivery of budget planning, monitoring, and reporting in a timely and quality manner. 

On a day-to-day basis, the finance Assistant will interface with the awards, logistics, and program operation teams to deliver their role, such as financial data processing in Agresso systems, review of transactions, and financial reports. The Finance Assistant will report technically to the Finance Coordinator of the Rest of Sudan with a dotted line of management to the Program Implementation Manager, who is responsible for approving the program thematic transactions on a regular basis before posting. Therefore, the Finance Assistant is responsible for identifying and reporting to the Senior Program Manager all financial compliance issues.  S/he is responsible for supervising and controlling Sennar spending and working with the finance team in Khartoum and field levels to ensure that the program budgets are utilized and monitored in full compliance with the donors. requirements.

Duties and responsibilities:

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

• Ensure GAVI payments are processed in a timely manner and comply with GAVI requirements and SCI internal policies and procedures 
• To Maintain Bank and cash Books and the safe.
• Prepare the cheque vouchers

To ensure the financial documents are well organized, filed, labelled, and placed in serial order 

• numbers, all stamped and filed properly into box files.
• To ensure the Sub-office documents are checked and reviewed to ensure documentation is presented and complete.
• To ensure full documentation of original financial vouchers sent monthly, and copies returned to the office.
• Liaising with Logistics, confirming the drop of the financial document, To Whom It May Concern, with feedback to the original sender.
• To liaise with the Bank about cashing cheques, depositing money, obtaining Debit and credit notes, Bank statements, and other inquiries. 
• Liaise with Taxation, Zakat, national insurance department, etc… About the due settlement.
• Any other jobs asked by the Sr. Program Manager and Finance Coordinator. 

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future-oriented, thinks strategically

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships with their team, colleagues, members, and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to 

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks 

Integrity:

• Honest encourages openness and transparency.
• In accordance with SCI policies and guidelines, to maintain a system of sound internal controls to safeguard and mitigate against the risk of financial loss and fraud as per the Fraud Prevention and Response Plan.

Competencies:

Delivery of Results     

• Helps others to navigate the organization and assists them in developing and delivering on their strategic plans
• Takes responsibility for their work and its impact on others

Develops Self and others

• Analyses and exercises judgment in challenging situations in the absence of specific guidance or knowledge of the full facts 
• Evaluates the opportunities and risks of each idea and solution to make informed strategic decisions

Works Effectively with Others

• Actively listens to new and different perspectives and experiences of those they work with 
• Demonstrates understanding of their skills and how they complement those of others within diverse teams and groups

Decision making and problem solving

• Brings in an external perspective to ensure strategic decision-making remains relevant and future-focused 
• Explores and analyses external trends and their potential impact on strategic choices 

Applying technical and professional expertise

• Reviews the external environment to lead to improvement in standards 

Aligns technical and professional standards to support our strategy

Minimum Qualification, Skills, and Experience Required:

• Degree in Finance & Accountancy
• Minimum of 1 to 3 years of professional experience in grant compliance, auditing, and financial management 
• Knowledge and experience using various financial packages, including SUN and Agresso systems
• Significant experience in financial monitoring, budgetary systems, and controls with strong analytical skills. 
• Proven ability to prepare budgets and donor financial reports. 
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and time management skills while working in a dynamic team setting in a challenging environment 
• Willingness to travel extensively to remote and harsh locations to monitor financial processes and provide capacity building for staff 
• Excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written 
• Demonstrable record of accomplishment in effective team membership and communications. 
• Ability to communicate effectively and work across departments, with demonstrated experience in integrated project activities. 

Females are highly encouraged to apply.

Kindly apply through the below link. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for next steps. The closing date will be 10/05/2025. Any application after this date will not be considered. All interviews will be done in the Save the Children office or remotely.

Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents. SCI will be undertaking child safeguarding checks for all candidates. The selected candidate will be asked to provide a police check before signing the contract.