International Management Accountant at WaterAid East Africa

International Management Accountant (East Africa region) at WaterAid
Job Description
International Management Accountant (East Africa Region)
Contract: Permanent, Full time
Location: The
role can be based in the UK, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda or any
of the WaterAid Country Programmes, subject to right-to-work eligibility
in the respective countries.

Salary & Benefits: Salaries
and benefits for different countries will vary in line with the
location of the successful candidate and depending on experience. See
further details below:

• Ethiopia: Grade G – 35,000 – 48,000 USD + 672 USD annual travel allowance
• Rwanda: Grade G – 57,012,937 – 75,368,552 RWF + 18% basic pay in allowances
• Tanzania: Grade G – 114,168,482 – 157,604,986 TZS with benefits
• Uganda: Grade G – 169,389,199 – 224,440,688 UGX with benefits
• UK: Grade 3: 48,314 – 50,729 GBP with excellent benefits

About WaterAid:
Want
to use your skills in Financial Planning and Reporting to play a vital
role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for
everyone everywhere?
We need passionate, creative and dedicated
people. In return, you will be encouraged and empowered to be yourself
at your very best. Together, we will make a bigger difference.

Join
WaterAid as an International Management Accountant to change normal for
millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from
poverty and change their lives for good.

About the Team:
The
WaterAid Management Accounting team provides country programmes and the
regions with professional and technical finance leadership for WaterAid
UK’s international work.

The International Management
Accountants act as a trusted business partner to each region they
support. Being involved in strategic conversations and enabling decision
making through insights and data analysis.

About the Role:
As
an IMA you will support the regions, country programme leadership, and
International Programmes Directorate, to deliver effective financial
plans and ensure best practice in monitoring and evaluating performance
is in place.

You will act as a trusted Business Partner of your
stakeholders, providing analysis, robust challenge and strategic advice,
to support the delivery of WaterAid’s mission.
This will include
helping to build the financial management capacity of stakeholders
through developing and championing self service reporting and insights
that support optimal and cohesive decision making on all levels of
International Programmes Directorate: country, regional and director.

You’ll also:

• Work
  with Country Senior Management Team to develop business plans for scale
  up/innovation/new activities for the country programme.
• Support
  the country programme to implement appropriate financial processes and
  procedures for sourcing and managing complex restricted funds
• Review
  and analyse country programme plan and budgets, requesting
  clarification where required, to provide support and advice to Country
  Senior Management Teams, Heads of Region and the Head of Management
  Accounting.
• Consolidate information from country programmes to
  produce financial analysis and narrative information for regional
  management accounts on a monthly basis.
• Develop and maintain
  effective working relationships across the global finance function to
  ensure an integrated approach, mutual learning and effective use of
  resources.
• Collaborate with wider organisation and actively
  build relationships with others, including, programmes support
  functions, fundraising teams and other finance colleagues as well as a
  range of direct senior stakeholders

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About You:
Technical Qualifications and Skills

• Degree level education
• Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA)
• Experience in the use of Sun, or a similar multi-dimensional accounting system.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills
• Working knowledge of Business Intelligence tools
• Knowledge and experience of donor fund management
• Experience of financial planning, budgeting and forecasting
• Ability to analyse financial data and provide narrative for range of audiences
• Experience of developing financial policies, processes and systems
• Management accounting expertise, experience and knowledge
• Finance Business Partnering experience of being a trusted partner to stakeholders

Closing date: Applications will close at 23:59 on 26th May 2024.
Availability for interview is required week commencing 10th June 2024 –
due to the global nature of the role interviews will be held via video
call.

How to Apply:
To see the full job pack, please click ‘Apply’.

• Please
  apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in
  either Word Document or PDF format. Applications without a cover letter
  will not be considered.
• Please indicate your location and the right to work eligibility in your Cover letter.

Pre-employment screening:
To
apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility
to work in the respective country. All pre-employment checks will be
carried out according to the applicable laws in the respective
countries. All our UK-based vacancies require a basic Disclosure and
Barring Service (DBS) check to comply with our Safer Recruitment policy.

Our Commitment
Our People Promise:
We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable
water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere.
WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and
shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community
with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring,
stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people
first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their
voice and truly live our values.

Equal opportunities:
We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are
dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and
inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds,
beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not
limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation,
religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or
social situation.

Safeguarding:
We are also committed
to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a
zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our
global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination,
abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people
and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working
on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities
extremely seriously.
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