Programme Finance Officer

Title: Programme Finance Officer

Salary: Local terms and conditions apply

Location: Nampula, Mozambique

Contract: 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Hours: Full time – 35 hours per week

About the role

Sightsavers Mozambique country office is currently seeking an experienced Programme Finance Officer to support the Finance and Support Services Manager (FSSM) with program financial management. You will be responsible for the financial compliance and risk management of various projects by coordinating with colleagues, partners, and other stakeholders.

As the Programme Finance Officer, you will be responsible for donor budget management and reporting, financial management, partner financial reporting, and procurement.

Further duties and responsibilities include:

• Preparing and maintaining Project Budgets to ensure data is complete and maintained on a timely basis.
• Work with the project team to ensure that all donor related information is disseminated to project, finance, and logistics staff as well as partners to enable them to abide by donor rules and regulations.
• Coordinate with project staff and partners to prepare and regularly update the spending plan.
• Prepare monthly Budget Versus Actual reports and send to the FSSM and to other relevant staff.
• Prepare quarterly financial report as per Institutional donor’s requirements, ensuring it is complete, accurate and produced on time to ensure adequate review, approval, and submission to the Project Manager/Donor.
• Prepare and consolidate monthly invoice and expense projections. Analyze differences of the projections and actual spending and submit adjustments as required.
• Ensure partners report as per the required reporting template for both internal and donor formats.
• Review and coordinate the consolidation of partner financial reports.
• Manage and monitor expenses vs project budget, highlighting variances.
• Identity program procurement needs in consultation with the Program manager.
• Follow the projects’ Value for Money strategies.

Skills and Experience

As the successful candidate you will hold a relevant professional accounting qualification and a bachelor’s degree in finance/accounting. You will possess extensive working experience in a similar role, ideally within an INGO environment, and have experience of logistics and procurement.

Further requirements include:

Essential

• Experience of financial management, program & project management and administration
• Experience supporting Program teams and partners with budget preparation and proposals
• Experience of working on the SUN and Standard Bank Online platforms/systems
• Project Financial management and data analysis skills and experience
• Ability to understand and work with project budgets, forecasts and reports.

Desirable

• Experience managing grants/contracts from institutional donors like FCDO, USAID, and GIZ
• Experience of audit and working with government organisations

The Programme Finance Officer role is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.

Next Steps

To apply for this exciting new opportunity, please submit your CV via our recruitment portal. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.

The evaluation process will include a written task and 2 stage interviews.

We anticipate that first stage interviews and task will be remote and take place during the week commencing 7 April, and second stage interviews will be in-person at our Nampula office and will take place during the week commencing 14 April (second stage remote interviews are possible where needed).

Closing date: 30 March 2025

As a global equal opportunities employer, Sightsavers is committed to embracing diversity throughout our workforce by creating an inclusive environment that reflects the many cultures and locations where we work. Our workforce will be truly representative of all sections of society and we will actively promote the inclusion of individuals with a disability. Sightsavers is a Disability Confident Leader and qualified people with a disability are particularly encouraged to apply.

Sightsavers is an employer that does not tolerate any form of harassment and has zero tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse. All potential candidates will be subjected to rigorous background checks and controls.

How to apply

Please apply here