War Child, the specialist charity for children affected by conflict. For more than two decades we’ve delivering high-impact programmes that are rebuilding lives across Afghanistan, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic and Yemen. We understand children’s needs, respect their rights, and put them at the centre of the solution - from reintegrating children formerly associated with armed groups and armed forces (CAAFAG) in the Central African Republic to reuniting children with their families in Afghanistan. We look forward to a world in which the lives of children are no longer torn apart by war. This is a vision that can only be realised through the collective actions of children themselves, communities and their leaders, organisations like War Child, governments and key decision makers. 

Job Description:

Finance Manager will lead to ensuring timely, high quality, and reliable financial information and analysis are readily available to inform program decision making. Within this remit, specific requirements will include overseeing budget management process and monitoring expenditure; generating up to date and timely financial reports and flagging analysis to identify projects potential under/overspending; ensure timely preparation of financial reports and documentation for WCUK HQ and donors; participate in strategic planning and decision making under the guidance of the Head of Support (HoS).

We strongly encourage applications from qualified female candidates.

Financial Management

• Lead on all financial management aspects, planning and reporting across the Afghanistan program.
• Support the HoS in designing and implementing appropriate financial controls and budget management mechanisms, including tools for tracking/monitoring and analysing spending across multiple grants.
• Provide support to HoS in contributing to the development of finance strategy, country annual plans, with specific reference to finance.
• Lead on financial risk assessments and coverage analysis to provide inform strategic decision making and ensure financial sustainability;
• Ensure all the financial plannings and expenditures (data) correctly entered in the Unit4 accounting system.
• Ensure timely closure of Monthly Accounts and prepare Month-End Financial Package for submission to HQ.
• Prepare Monthly budget vs Actual (BVA) reports and facilitate review meetings with Program Managers to analyse financial performance, address variances and support informed decisions.
• Coordinate with Project/program managers to update forecast in BvA on monthly basis during BvA review meeting, share the updated BvA with HoS & SMT for review.
• Oversee cash flow management and administration of bank accounts in Afghanistan and ensure all the Bank & Cash reconciliation are prepared on monthly basis.
• Ensure the timely and accurate processing of monthly payroll.
• Update shared cost allocation on monthly basis,
• Prepare quarterly financial reports and submission to HQ with approval of HoS.
• Lead the budget development process and oversee the financial aspects of proposal development. 
• Lead on all financial reports’ preparation in compliance with WCUK, donors, and auditors and proper documentation for audit purposes
• Manage all audit processes, including statutory, donor, internal/ External.
• Ensure War Child remains compliant with all in-country regulations. 
• Review and Validate partners financial reports in-line with their approved budgets.
• Ensure deduction and timely deposit of Tax for employees and vendors on monthly basis.
• Ensure obtain the Annual Income Tax Clearance certificate from MTO.
• Lead on submission of Six-monthly report to MoEc.
• Lead on Year-End closing process and submission of Annual accounts & reports to HQ.  

Capacity building staff & local partners

• Build capacity of the finance staff through on-the-job training, mentoring, coaching as well as training and workshops.
• Contribute to the designing and implementation of capacity building initiatives for WCUK partners as part of organizational development commitments.
• Monitor and coordinate compliance with financial policies, procedures, and practices.

Management of staff

• Supervise all finance staff in Afghanistan, regular team meetings, one-to-one meetings, etc.
• Lead on development plans for all finance staff in Afghanistan and actively develop best practices in all projects through training, coaching and mentoring.

Overall

• Support the HoS on the above subjects.
• Coordinate with HQ finance for monthly reports submission and answering the queries on monthly/ quarterly reports.

2.4 Child safeguarding and Adults at Risk

Our work with children and at-risk adults to ensure their safety is our top priority. We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in all aspects of our work. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy for any behavior or practices that put children and/or vulnerable adults at risk of abuse or harm.

Successful applicants will be required to comply with and sign our Safeguarding Policy, Code of Conduct, and PSEAH Policy. You can find the Safeguarding and Integrity policies here:

https://warchild.sharepoint.com/sites/Integrity

Our Values

Bold

We use our passion and creativity to deliver high-quality evidence-based work designed to maximize our beneficial impact on children in conflict.

Accountable to Children

Children can rely on us to respond to their voices and to treat them with respect and dignity.

Anti-racism:

Anti-racism is not merely a belief. It includes actions that we mainstream throughout our work to change and challenge policies and behaviors that perpetuate racism.

Transparent

We expect to be held to account by our supporters and beneficiaries and we respond with openness and honesty.

Supportive to each other

We support each other and our partners to achieve ambitious goals and to the best we can be we are honest and open with each other, sharing our success and confronting our challenges.

Person Specification

War Child in Afghanistan operates in a dynamic environment with a team of highly motivated and dedicated staff. The right candidate will share these qualities and bring effective leadership to a diverse team. The successful candidate will be a creative problem solver and foster a solution-based approach to management.

1- Experience and mandatory criteria:

• Afghan Nationals only
• Masters (MCOM/MBA) degree with a major in Accounting or Finance
• Minimum 3-years of experience in a similar role, preferably with INGOs, UN, or donor’ agencies.
• Familiarity with project cycle financial management and donor reporting.
• Demonstrated experience managing substantial budgets.
• Demonstrated experience of capacity building of staff through coaching, training, and mentoring.
• Dynamic and motivated individual with a positive attitude to problem solving.
• Strong focus on timely and quality outputs.
• Self-reflective and open to feedback from direct reports and line management.
• Able to work under pressure, tight deadlines, and competing priorities.

2- ​​​​​​​Technical Skills/Expertise:

• Must be able to communicate effectively in English. 
• Pashtu and/or Dari are assets.
• Excellence in the use of excel and financial management software.
• Supervisory and management experience.

3- ​​​​​​​Competencies:

• Active problem solving with a focus on collegial working and supportive staff to own solutions.
• Cultural sensitivity and ability to work with a diverse team.
• Personal commitment and drive for timely and high-quality results.
• Strategic perspective and keen to take ownership of finance functions, challenges, and solutions.
• Proactive, able to multi-task, and flexible to changing priorities.

Pre-employment checks

Employment with War Child will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check and a clear vetting and Due Diligence check
• receipt of three satisfactory references
• Due to the emergency nature of the role, applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and the vacancy may close before the deadline.

Submission Guideline:

• Please go to this:  https://war-child-alliance.jobs.personio.com/job/2027605?language=en&display=en
• Fill in your information, and attach your documents before the closing date - (05-Apr-2025).
• Applications after the closing date will not be accepted.
• Please note that there is no telephonic inquiry and only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for written test/interview.