Senior Programme Finance Officer

Oxfam in Vietnam vacancy

SENIOR PROGRAMME FINANCE OFFICER (SPFO190602)

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty.

That means we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves, and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.

We are an international confederation of 19 organizations (affiliates) working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in 67 countries and 7 regions.

Oxfam in Vietnam is working to seek transformative changes in policies, practices and beliefs in ways that will fundamentally improve the lives of poor and marginalized women and men, and ensure that all citizens have the same opportunity to enjoy their rights.

All our work is led by three core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness. To read more about our values please click here

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behavior at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The Role

The Senior Programme Financial Officer is responsible for providing quality financial guidance and coherence across all major donors’ requirements, ensuring Oxfam’s policies and procedures are adhered to and applied fairly; supporting financial capacity development of programme units; and, managing all financial aspects of assigned Special projects.

Contract: Fixed term, 2 years with possible extension (depending on performance)
Reporting to: Head of Support Services
Based in: Hanoi with frequent travel

Key responsibilities:

• Take a lead role in working with Programme Finance Officers to ensure coherence and compliance across all major donor requirements;
• Work closely with head of Support Services to ensure an adequate financial (including risk) management, procedures/policy are well developed, implemented, and maintained;
• Analyse the financial aspects of funding applications, financial and operational reports and financial audits of Oxfam counterparts for a proper accountability and transparency;
• Assess, together with the Programme Managers/Programme Officers the organisational structure, capacity and management systems of counterparts as well as their external risks and communicate about these issues directly with the counterparts & propose appropriate monitoring and/or capacity-building;
• Closely monitor counterparts' financial management and implementation of activities and outcomes in collaboration with programme team;
• Contribute to the further development of the capacity of programme staff and partners in finance management and in preparing financial reports to ensure proper accountability and compliance to Oxfam grant management and/or back donors' requirements;
• Draws up the budget for (externally funded) project proposals on the basis of the intended project activities. For project implementation and monitoring: supports necessary system improvements, prepares the financial management reports in line with the standards of the back-donor(s), including a (first) analysis, and submits them to the project leader for his/her approval;
• Take a coordination role to check and review the consistency and compliance in all financial aspects of funding proposals, donor reporting, donor auditing, assess the internal and external risks and opportunities across all partners;
• Regularly visit counterparts and their projects in the field and other relevant organisations/people in Vietnam in order to properly implement and check the above mentioned duties;
• Provide advices/training to other PFOs for all matter relating to finance when required;
• Have direct contacts with relevant units at affiliate and OI offices (quality and finance control, external funding, Quality & Control) and local authorities to deal with financial issues (e.g VAT refund);
• Take a lead role in system training to all staff.

Skills, experience and knowledge

Essential

• A degree in finance management on a bachelor level;
• 7 years of relevant work experience in financial position including financial management, planning, administration, budgeting and auditing;
• Several years of working experience related to international development organisations;
• Experience in making independent financial analyses of development programmes, and you can evaluate these against the political and socio-economic context within which they are carried out;
• Experience and knowledge of relevant financial IT-systems;
• Excellent communications skills in English;
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of gender mainstreaming, women's rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work;
• Commitment to Oxfam's safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

In addition, you need to

• Be a team player;
• Have good social and interpersonal skills;
• Be able to work across boundaries and enable cooperation among different groups/actors;
• Be able to work under pressure in response to changing needs.

Gross Annual Salary Range: VND343,685,322 – VND718,132,761

How to apply

Interested candidates can send your application including motivation letter and curriculum vitae and mentioning reference number SPFO190602 to [email protected] .

The closing date for application: 4th July 2019

We regret that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Oxfam is an equal opportunity employer