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Finance Team Leader
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Date posted
July 6, 2025
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Closing date
July 6, 2025
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Hiring location
Dollo Ado
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Qualification
Degree
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Experience
4-5 years
Description
Job description
Job Description
- Role and responsibilities
Finance Team leader will be overseeing daily financial operations across multiple refugee camps like (Bokolmayo, Melkadida, Hilaweyn, Buramino, and Kobe camps), this requires strong leadership, attention to detail, and a deep understanding of financial compliance and accurate financial reporting, budget oversight, and adherence to NRC’s policies.
Generic responsibilities
- Implement NRC’s systems and procedures at the Filed office level.
- Ensure adherence to NRC policies, handbooks, guidelines, and donor requirements
- Prepare and submit reports and analysis
- Ensure proper filing of all support documents in accordance with the Ethiopia local Financial Handbook country SOP
- Support line manager in procedures and require support team training
- Ensure that the accounting, monitoring, and reporting are according to procedures
Specific responsibilities
- Responsible for managing the daily finance activities at the Field office.
- Ensure accounting and recording are in line with NRC finance guidelines
- Monitor the project spending plan and refer any concerns to the support manager and the program managers
- Responsible for ensuring timely submission of the monthly forecast, monthly closure, and payroll.
- Responsible for managing the cash flow in the bank and the office safe
- Review and submit donor budgets and donor reports
- Responsible for the Audit process
- Management of the finance team
- Deliver training for non-finance staff at the Field office.
Skills and qualifications
Professional competencies
These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance.
Generic Professional Competencies
- Minimum 4 years of experience working as a Finance Officer or above in a humanitarian/recovery context
- Master/bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance or related fields.
- Experience working in INGOs is preferred,
- Knowledge about own leadership skills/profile
- Solid knowledge of computer Application Excel and modern accounting systems
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
- Fluency in Local Language/Somali, both written and verbal.
- Previous Experience from working in complex and Volatile Context.
Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:
- University degree in accounting or equivalent
- Knowledge of the context in (Refugee Camps)
- Good communication & interpersonal skills are required
- Good knowledge of the Ethiopia Labor Law
2. Behavioural competencies
- Handling insecure environment
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect
How to apply
About UsThe Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.
Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.
At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.
Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to: • treat everyone with respect and dignity • contribute to building a safe environment for all • never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH) • always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH
About the Team
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) Geneva leads NRC’s representation with the IASC and UN agencies, and coordinates donor engagement with the UN and Swiss donors. NRC strives to assist and protect vulnerable and displaced people during crises, especially in situations of conflict. Established in 1946, NRC is an independent, humanitarian, non-profit, non-governmental organisation working in around 31 countries with approximately 14’000 staff. NRC employs a rights based approach, challenging those with responsibility to uphold the rights of displaced people set out within national and International Laws. NRC endeavors to secure the acceptance of local stakeholders for activities and is committed to the principles of humanity, neutrality, independence and impartiality.
NRC seeks to engage with all relevant actors in order to promote the full respect for the rights of displaced and vulnerable people; secure and maintain access for humanitarian operations and promote the achievement of durable solutions. NRC Geneva, with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), are NRC’s primary presence in Geneva.
Overview
The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee
We work in crises in more than 30 countries, where we help save lives and rebuild futures. We deliver high-quality aid where needs are greatest
When we started our relief efforts after World War II, humanitarian needs were critical
They still are – and we’re still there, protecting people forced to flee and supporting them as they build a new future
Today, we work in both new and protracted crises across more than 30 countries, where we provide camp management, food assistance, clean water, shelter, legal aid, and education. We stand up for people forced to flee
NRC is a determined advocate for displaced people
When we witness injustices, we alert the world
We promote and defend displaced people's rights and dignity in local communities, with national governments and in the international arena
NRC’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva is a global leader in monitoring, reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country. We respond quickly to emergencies
NRC's global provider of expertise, NORCAP, the world’s most used, boasts around 1,000 experts from all over the world
Our experts stand ready to deploy at a moment’s notice to support the UN and local authorities in humanitarian crises. Around 15,000 humanitarians work with the Norwegian Refugee Council
Most of us are hired locally to work in the field, and a small number are based at our head office in Oslo
Many of our colleagues were once themselves fleeing their homes. Today, a record 79.5 million people are fleeing war and persecution
Not since World War Two have more people needed our help
The Norwegian Refugee Council assisted 9.1 million people worldwide in 2019, and with your support, we can help even more.
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