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Job Title:  Finance and Support Services Manager

Organisation: Sightsavers

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About the Company:

Sightsavers is an International Development Organization which works with partners to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote equality of opportunity for people with disabilities in over 33 developing countries across Africa, Asia and America. Sightsavers seeks to achieve a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes and where visually impaired people participate equally in society. Each year, we improve the lives of millions of people in the poorest parts of the world. Sightsavers offers a great place to work within easy reach of London and Brighton.

Job Summary:   Sightsavers are currently seeking an experienced Finance and Support Services Manager (FSSM) to oversee and supervise the development, co-ordination, and management of Sightsavers’ finance and administration in the Uganda Country office.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:   As the FSSM you will be responsible for a number of specified areas of the overall finance and administration function, through close collaboration with colleagues, partners and others, and will identify areas for growth and improvement. The responsibilities of the role include:

Financial Management

• Ensure financial control and managing risk
• Ensure the conformity to the organisational Financial Framework
• Ensure compliance to local regulations and governance requirements

Administration and Support Services (20%) 

• Lead in facilitating the implementation of administrative organizational policies and procedure, including ensuring that Minimum Operating Security Standard are implemented
• Manage, with support from the Admin Officer and Senior Driver, logistics, supplies, and purchases as per procurement policy and procedures
• Manage, with support from the Admin Officer and Senior Driver, office vehicle usage and ensure that the logbooks are filled correctly and analysed monthly
• Management of assets as per defined policies

Project and Programme Management (20%)

• Provide programme support in the following areas:
• Support, administer and strengthen financial management, accountability, and capacities of partners in accordance with the Sightsavers Partnership Development Policy
• Support collaboration between finance and programme teams for joint review of project/programme reports, planning and analysis

Managing Accounting System

• Provide programme support in the following areas:
• Support Country Director and Senior Programme Manager in preparing budgets and forecasts, reviewing programme expenditure, budgets revisions (whenever required).
• Ensuring timely completion and submission of all financial annual reports for both restricted and unrestricted funded projects as per agreed timelines.
• Oversee financial monitoring of partners at all levels

Human Resource Management

• Implement HR policies and procedures such as payroll and training etc
• Manage and facilitate the staff development plans
• Support and line manage administrative staff

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

Skills and Experience

• As the successful candidate you will have relevant working experience, or a professional accounting qualification or a master’s qualification or bachelor’s degree in relevant field. You will also possess working experience in a similar role, ideally within an INGO.

Further requirements include:

• Experience of financial management, programme & project management, HRM and administration
• Project Financial management and data analysis skills
• Ability to represent Sightsavers with key external stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills (both oral & written)
• Ability to work with minimum supervision
• IT skill – Excel, MS Word, an accounting package and Emailing
• Ability to understand and work with project budgets, forecasts, and reports.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below. We are particularly interested in learning of your motivations for applying.

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Deadline: 5th January 2025

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