Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. World Vision USA is hiring a Finance Director for a global emergency response project. The role provides financial leadership and oversight for global consortium programming, including grant planning, budgeting, accounting, audits, financial controls, reporting, and partner support.
Responsibilities
- Keep Christ central in individual and corporate life. Actively participate in and contribute to the spiritual disciplines of the organization (Christian conduct, chapel, prayer, worship, devotions, and leadership of devotions); incorporate WV Core Values into decisions within scope of role
- Provide management oversight of grant financial planning and budgeting, accounting, audit, and other technical financial services
- Work very closely with the Global Project Management Team, consortium partners, and World Vision’s finance and Contracts department to ensure that the implementation, reporting, and other finance-related tasks and deliverables are carried out effectively
- Ensure that financial decisions, policies and procedures meet corporate and project objectives and comply with regulatory requirements
- Ensure that consortium partners are aligned in terms of their budgets, spending, cost-sharing, and leveraging and maintaining their program activity to administration ratio
- Provide education, training, and client service to the Global Project Management and support team and consortium partners in effective use and application of financial systems and principles
- Monitor progress to ensure performance is on target
- Reference and follow organizational policies and procedures, seeking clarity as needed
Skills
- Advanced degree in related field required
- 5-8 years of progressive and leadership work experience in budgeting and finance with demonstrated understanding of complex organizational budgeting, including financial management of large-scale and multi-country programs
- Professional fluency in English is required
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.A for any employer
- Significant international travel in year 1 of project >50%; travel requirement in subsequent years >25%
- Accounting/Finance Expertise: Understands and can apply complex accounting and financial principles
- Budgeting: Understands fundamentals of complex organizational budgeting. Uses appropriate tools and management techniques to establish, manage, forecast, and measure budgetary performance
- Financial Process Controls: Effectively identify safeguards to avoid fraud and protect World Vision assets
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Knowledge: Knows and applies GAAP and generally accepted auditing practices
- Government Grant Accounting and Reporting Knowledge: Demonstrates knowledge of federal, state and local government accounting, reporting and auditing requirements and applies these regulations to grants awarded to WVUS
- Professional designation as Certified Public Accountant (CPA) preferred
- Previous work experience with an international relief/development organization is desirable
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