Job Description
Job Title: Field Finance Manager, BBCI, Burundi
Supervisor: Financial Controller
Department: Administration
Location: Burundi
Grade: Grade 9
TechnoServe Background
Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better future. This simple idea has been at the heart of TechnoServe’s work around the world for over 50 years. TechnoServe is a pioneer in leveraging the power of business and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty.
The low-income communities in which we work are full of enterprising people. Their small-scale farms and businesses are the keys to economic development. But they face many challenges: low literacy, lack of access to jobs and markets, unpredictable political dynamics and, increasingly, the effects of climate change. For many women and young people, the challenges are even more daunting. Working with TechnoServe staff, people around the world are lifting themselves out of poverty. The results are amazing…when incomes increase and living conditions for families get better, they are able to access health care and education previously out of reach. Communities and even whole countries are better off.
Program Description:
TechnoServe is currently launching a 5-year, multi-million-dollar USDA-funded coffee sector development project in Burundi. The Burundi Better Coffee Initiative (BBCI) aims to strengthen the competitiveness of Burundi’s coffee sector by improving on-farm production, local processing, marketing, and the supportive ecosystem. We are actively recruiting for various positions to manage and deliver different program components including finance, human resources, and field project operations. Inclusion of women and youth in all components and activities of the project is critical.
Job Summary:
The Field Finance Manager will play a crucial role in overseeing financial operations for field office(s). This position requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and ensuring compliance with company policies and relevant regulations.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities:
- Oversee day-to-day financial activities of the field office including processing invoices, expense reports, and other transactions.
- Reviewing invoices and payments for accuracy, relevance, and authorization as well as timely capturing of payments in the financial system in line with donor requirements
- Work with the Financial Controller in the development and management of budgets for the field office. Review budgets regularly and analyze variances. Make recommendations for alignment with organizational goals.
- Work with the Financial Controller on the month-end closure process in the established deadlines.
- Participate in the monthly financial reporting, providing insights to support decision-making.
- Monitor key financial metrics and identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Work with the Financial Controller in the preparation of annual budgets and forecasts.
- Monitor budget performance and guide corrective actions.
- Ensure compliance with local financial regulations.
- Implement and maintain internal controls to mitigate financial risks.
- Coordinate with internal and external auditors during audits.
- Manage cash flow and liquidity of the field office, optimizing working capital.
- Implement strategies to enhance cash management efficiency.
- Maintain general ledgers, cash books, debtors, and creditors ledgers.
- Ensure effective resource utilization and safeguarding of TechnoServe’s Assets whilst maintaining the Fixed Asset Register.
- Work with the procurement team in line with procurement policy to ensure adherence to TechnoServe and Donor Policies.
- Reviewing financial system codes allocated to costs in line with Donor Budget requirements for completeness, correctness, and accuracy.
- Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the finance team.
- Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency in financial operations.
- Implement best practices to streamline financial processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather financial data and insights.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications:
- Be a Burundian national or having a valid work permit.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; Master’s degree or professional certification (e.g., CPA, CMA) is a plus.
- At least 7 years’ experience in financemanagement, with a focus on financial analysis & reporting. Experience in managing USG Funds is considered an advantage.
- Strong knowledge of financial principles, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Proven experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- PC computer skills in MS word, excel and PowerPoint required. Knowledge fund-based accounting software preferred.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural skills.
- Fluency in French and English with excellent oral and written communication skills required.
Success Factors:
Competency is a combination of knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) directly related to successful performance on the job.
Core Competencies include:
- Integrity and honesty: Is widely trusted; seen as a direct, truthful individual; presents truthful information in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidence; admits mistakes; does not misrepresent himself or herself for personal gain.
- Teamwork/ Relationships: Works cooperatively and flexibly with other members of the team with a full understanding of the role to be played as a team member and/or leader, to achieve a common goal. Ability to build and maintain effective relationships and networks.
- Learning attitude: Proactively takes advantage of opportunities to learn. Actively identifies new areas for learning; applies and shares new knowledge and skill appropriately.
- Diversity/Inclusiveness: Demonstrates an understanding and appreciation for diversity and supports diversity efforts. Interacts effectively with and inclusively with people of all races, cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, ages, and genders.
- Communication: Expresses ideas effectively in individual and group situations. Listens effectively; shares information, ideas and arguments; adjusts terminology, language and communication modes to the needs of the audience; ensures accurate understanding; acts in a way that facilitates open exchange of ideas and information; uses appropriate non-verbal communication.
- Decision making/Problem Solving: Is able to analyse situations, diagnose problems, identify the key issues, establish and evaluate alternative courses of action and produce a logical, practical and acceptable solution. Is able to make effective decisions on a day-to-day basis, taking ownership of decisions, demonstrating sound judgement in escalating issues where necessary.
- Results Oriented/ High Quality Deliverables: Stays focused on the efforts necessary to achieve quality results consistent with programmatic or departmental goals. Demonstrates the ability to achieve effective results; works persistently to overcome obstacles to goal achievement. Accomplishes tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks.
- Planning & Time Management: Establishes a course of action for self and/or others to accomplish a specific goal. Effectively plans, schedules, prioritises and controls activities; identifies, integrates and orchestrates resources (people, material, information, budget, and/or time) to accomplish goals. Prioritises work according to the program or department’s goals, not just own job responsibilities; manages own time effectively.
- Business Acumen: The ability to use information, ask the right questions and take decisions that make an impact on the overall business performance.
Job Specific/Technical Competencies include:
- Financial & Resource Management: The ability to estimate, justify, and manage appropriate funding levels to support goal accomplishment. Managing Resources is about understanding human, financial, and operational resource issues to make decisions aimed at building and planning efficient project workflows, and at improving overall organisational performance.
- Computer Literacy: Demonstrates knowledge and ability to use specific computer programs or applications for their own functional area. Has the ability to improve performance by integrating new and existing technology into the workplace.
- Donor/Partnership Management: Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, or organisations to help achieve business goals.
- Analysis, Research, Report Writing: Experience in business planning and analysis, modelling for feasibility and execution. Able to analyse and express oneself clearly in business writing.
- Innovative Mindset: Curious inquiries, asks questions and seeks out information from multiple sources, learns from mistakes, sees change as an opportunity.
We encourage all qualified individuals who share TechnoServe’s vision of improving the lives of others through proven business solutions to apply. With our commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and affirmative action employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, HIV/AIDS status, protected veteran status, disability and all other protected classes.
We are also proud of our commitment to protecting staff, partners, and beneficiaries from abuse and exploitation and thoroughly vet all final candidates through rigorous background and reference checks.
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NOTE:
- Only selected candidates will be invited to take the recruitment tests.
- Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for the position.