International Finance Manager - Accountant (Angola)
The HALO Trust, Portugal

Job Title: International Finance Manager - Accountant

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Menongue, Angola

Salary: Competitive, dependant on experience

HALO Angola is seeking an experienced accountant to fulfil the role of International Finance Manager (Accountant) (IFMA) in the Angola programme. The role will contribute directly to the delivery of donor funded humanitarian projects in Angola, ensuring financial and contractual accountability. The role would suit someone who is experienced working at scale and with a geographically disbursed Finance team, as well as working in a challenging context.

The successful candidate will be exceptional at working alongside others, bringing the best out of their team whilst pro-actively supporting the development of both the finance department, and the wider programme team.

HALO has been working in Angola since 1994 and now has over 1,400 staff working across five provinces. There are over 70 different types of landmines in Angola from an estimated 41 years of minelaying during the war for independence and civil war which persisted from 1961 to 2002. As a signatory of the international convention on the ban landmines, HALO supports the Government of Angola to comply with its treaty obligations. To date, HALO has cleared over 100,000 mines and made over 25km2 of land safe for use.

The programme is supported by a diverse donor portfolio and is currently delivering 15 contracts of varying scale and scope. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic programme and a diverse team, to support operations working across the vast and varied landscape of Southern Angola.

**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE IS BASED ON-SITE IN MENONGUE, ANGOLA**

The IFMA will work alongside another International Finance Manager, supporting the oversight of the programme’s finance department. They will be responsible for ensuring the daily, monthly, and annual financial duties are carried out in compliance with HALO’s policies, donor contracts and national finance and tax regulations, including making sure that costs are allocated appropriately. In addition, the IFMA will be responsible for ensuring the monthly financial close process is completed accurately and within deadlines using HALO’s financial ledger (Oracle Netsuite).

They are to lead their team, and alongside other senior management members they are to inspire, motivate and manage the programme. The IFMA shall supervise the payroll cycle, ensuring donor funding allocation is accurate and that payments for income tax, social security and severance are in accordance with programme policy and Angolan legislation.

The IFMA is responsible for ensuring robust banking and cash management procedures and compliance with HALO’s financial policies, managing the programme’s cash flow requirements and liaising with the HQ Finance team as and when necessary. The IFMA will also be responsible for preparation and presentation to auditors, including statutory and donor external auditors.

Accounting and Financial Control

Provide financial oversight and support to all programme locations, ensuring transactions are fully reconciled and discrepancies identified and corrected.

Ensure implementation of HALOs financial and logistics policies and procedures, reviewing and reporting on compliance.

Oversee the monthly financial close process, ensuring the country financial ledgers are closed within HALO deadlines.

Ensure that costs are allocated to grants/contracts in accordance with the cost allocation policy, identifying and reporting on any shortfalls in both direct and indirect cost coverage.

Supervise the production of the payroll cycle, ensuring donor funding allocations are accurate, and calculations for salary, income tax, social security, severance, and other government levies are in accordance with legislation.

Support the Programme Manager in ensuring compliance with all statutory legislation (e.g. tax, registration, labour law), including the review of regulatory requirements in new operational territories.

Oversee the financial management of delivery partner contracts, ensuring compliance with HALOs contractual obligations.

Cash Management

Ensure that adequate banking and cash provisions are in place, set up in accordance with HALOs financial policies, and that delegations of authority enable the programme to operate efficiently, particularly during periods of leave etc.

Manage the short-term cash flow requirements of the programme, liaising with HALO HQ to facilitate cash transfers. Manage the effects of exchange rate fluctuations between local and contract currencies.

External Reporting and Audit

Lead the preparation fo

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