Africa Finance Director at MSI Reproductive Choices Tanzania

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Africa Finance Director
Africa Finance Director at MSI Reproductive Choices Tanzania June 2024
About MSI
MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s
leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe
that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to
safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to
delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today,
our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries
across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are
locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate
about delivering high quality, client-centred care in their own
communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery,
efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women
and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We
know that access to reproductive choice is life changing. For some, it
can mean the ability to complete an education or start a career. For
others, it means being able to look after the family they already have.
For everyone, it means the freedom to decide their own future, creating a
fairer, more equal world.

About the Role
You will line manage Regional Financial
Managers, to ensure high quality, disciplined and supportive financial
structure is in place to support all programmes under MSI Africa. You
will also be responsible for managing the Regional Finance Teams and
coordinating with the Senior Africa, Director and Africa, Director
Deputy to ensure strong financial oversight of country programmes.
Moreover, you will develop and implement the necessary strategy to
ensure standardization, simplification and compliance across MSI Africa
operations.

Working closely with the MSI Senior Director, Africa
you will have significant internal and external facing responsibilities
ranging from ensuring compliance with MSI’s financial internal
standards to representing MSI financial systems vis-a-via donors and
strategic stakeholders.

About You
We recruit
talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all
united by a belief in our mission and a focus on delivering measurable
results. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are
committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels
able to participate and contribute meaningfully. You must be
open-minded, curious, resilient, and solutions-oriented, and committed
to promoting equality, and safeguarding the welfare of team members and
clients alike.

To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following skills:

• Effective
  interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead, motivate and guide
  finance leadership across the continent and in regional support
  structure.
• SUN accounts (ideally), Vision XL and Excel skills
• Highly
  motivated with the ability to motivate and develop the skills of the
  team and inspire individuals and teams through situational leadership
  and by providing clear direction

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To perform this role, it is essential that you have the following experience:

• 5 – 10 years proven experience of financial leadership within a complex, multi-regional business
• Experience
  of developing and successfully implementing different financial
  strategies, with demonstrable push to implement a standardization and
  simplification across a complex business.
• Experience of communicating a range of complex issues with the ability to convey an inspiring vision.
• An understanding of major policies/ issues that arise when implementing in Africa, strong knowledge of good business practices
• An international mind-set, with an understanding of social businesses, together with an appreciation for cultural differences
• Experience in working with social business preferably in a developing country.
• Experience
  in producing, delivering and presenting meaningful financial analysis
  and recommend appropriate actions to enhance organizational performance
• Experience
  in initiating, developing and maintaining relationships with their
  staff, peers and external stakeholders at a senior level
• Knowledge and experience of the region
• Demonstrable
  ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing,
  including with people who do not have a background in finance

Formal education/qualification

• Qualified accountant
• Degree-educated or equivalent
• Relevant post-graduate qualification e.g. MBA, MSc, MA (desirable)
• Knowledge of English (Required)
• French language knowledge preferred but not essential

Personal Attributes:
We
seek exceptional individuals who are aligned to MSI’s mission and
entrepreneurial mindset. You must be a strong communicator,
self-motivated and solutions-seeking, committed to driving social change
in an environment that measures sustainable results and impact at an
individual and global level. You must be able to work effectively with
and across diverse teams and be comfortable with ambiguity.

For this role, we’re looking for an individual who is:

• Energetic, driven and an unwavering commitment for MSI’s mission, with
  the ability to push boundaries, and make tough decisions and challenge
  others in line with our mission
• Passionate about system and
  process improvements to consistently meet and exceed expectations,
  putting the clients at the centre of everything, and ensuring we deliver
  high quality, high impact services that meet their individual needs
• Able
  to work as part of a team, providing support and flexibility to
  colleagues, demonstrating fairness, understanding and respect for all
  people and cultures
• Commercially minded, understands the levers
  for profitability for success within the marketplace. Focuses on
  results, ensuring long term sustainability and increased impact
• Takes accountability for the decisions made and the behaviours demonstrated
• Aware
  of the emerging developments within our sector, with the ability to
  focus and articulate a vision of the future which inspires and excites
  others, while understanding the detail and looking for the evidence
• Highest levels of integrity, and a strong ethical sense
• Able to travel throughout Africa and international

Please click here to see the job description

Location: London Support Office (hybrid working, a minimum of two office days per week) or where any MSI country programme operates.
Full-time:
35 hours a week, Monday to Friday (For UK based team members, for other
locations the hours will be in line with national labour regulations)
Contract type: Permanent
Salary:
£66,200 – £86,700 per annum for UK based candidates. Discretionary
bonus + benefits. For all other locations, the salary will be banded
within the national context.
Salary band: BG 12
Closing date: 9th July 2024 (midnight GMT+1). Interviews may take place before this date for exceptional candidates.
For
internal employees applying from an MSI country programme, the role
will be positioned within the existing salary structure of the country.
Local terms and conditions of the country will apply.

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