Budget Manager – Yemen At Ark Group

ABOUT ARK:

ARK is a social enterprise, empowering local communities through the provision of agile and sustainable interventions to create greater stability, opportunity, and hope for the future.

We believe that resilient communities are the foundation of local, national, regional and international development and stability – and ultimately a safer, peaceful and more prosperous world. At ARK, we have delivered research and programmatic interventions validating this approach in over twenty countries since 2008. As a social enterprise we work in partnership with communities, our donors, and other implementers to build local capacities, generate opportunity and bring about sustainable change.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

ARK is recruiting an experienced Budget Manager to work on a prospective 5-year USAID-funded strengthening community resilience to armed recruitment program in Yemen. The programme will prioritize building community awareness, prevention-mechanisms, and reconciliation, positively engage children and youth, advance economic empowerment opportunities to limit the drivers of recruitment, and care for individuals’ psychological and emotional needs through psychosocial and mental health support, including specialized assistance and referral services for women and girls who experience high rates of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Yemen. The Budget Manager’s main responsibility is to track and maintain the project financials by applying ARK’s financial procedures in line with compliance and donor requirements. This role is ultimately responsible of managing the project budget, attending the budget meetings, preparing the financial reports required by the donor.

ARK has been programming in Yemen since 2009 for the UK and US governments, as well as the European Union. Work to date has included programming related to service delivery and local governance, support to civil society, research and analysis, peacebuilding and promoting social cohesion.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Programme Financial Management

• Check and verify source documents such as invoices, receipts in line with approval mechanism, financial procedures, compliance and donor requirements.
• Record financial transactions to the accounting software.
• Building project budgets, attend budget meetings, prepare budget forecasts and regularly update the line manager on ongoing project related issues.
• Ensure accurate entry of all project related transaction into the accounting software.
• Organize and archive project records according to donor and ARK compliance requirements.
• Track accruals, prepayments, deposits and insurance records.
• Reconciliation of third party, bank and cash transactions.
• Other administrative & financial duties as needed.

Office Financial Management

• Direct the maintenance of general and subsidiary ledgers, accounts receivable, revenue distribution, depreciation, cost, property, operating expenses, and insurance records in close coordination with the finance manager.
• Oversee the handling of petty cash in collaboration with the operations manager and/or country manager.
• Assist in the end of month review of project journals to ensure proper coding of all payments.
• Coordinate preparation of external audit materials and external financial reporting.
• Ensure all records are kept up‐to‐date.
• Manage all bank transactions, accounts and reconciliations.
• Act as point of contact for local company auditors.

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• 4+ years of hands-on bookkeeping experience.
• Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles.
• Mature individual with attention to detail, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.
• Effective communicator, analytical thinker, active learner and team player.
• Strong knowledge of computer applications specifically Excel.
• High degree of flexibility and adaptability required.
• Fluent in English and Arabic.

Desirable

• Previous USAID project experience in budgeting and financial management.
• Knowledge of USAID rules and regulations.
• Experience in working with subrecipients and subawards.

Closing date for applications is 30 June 2022. Candidates preferably available for a 1 August 2022 start date.

MORE ABOUT OUR COMPANY:

What Makes Us Different

We pride ourselves on being the first people able to access and operate in challenging fragile and conflict-affected environments. We are expeditionary by design and our systems and structures enable flexible and agile responses while ensuring safe, effective and compliant delivery.

Working with and through teams drawn from the communities in which we operate enables us to deliver impactful interventions built on intimate local understanding. In collaboration with our global network of international and local experts, we integrate nuanced understanding of the challenges we aim to solve with best practice and field-leading innovation to deliver programming that meets short-term stabilisation objectives and builds the evidence base and knowledge needed to lay the groundwork for long-term peacebuilding and development programming.

What We Do

We enjoy sectoral experience in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, stabilisation, gender, security and justice, as well as cross-cutting experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building.

Our People

Today, our team covers a diverse range of professional backgrounds; from diplomacy, humanitarian, development and the military, to the UN, civil society groups, multilateral organisations, journalism and the private sector.

They bring sectoral expertise in civil society development, good governance, protection and human rights, refugees and migration, gender and security and justice, as well as practical experience in programme design and learning, organisational development and management, research and analysis, needs assessments, monitoring and evaluation, communications and capacity building. The multi-disciplinary and multi-national nature of our team means the research we undertake and the programmes we deliver are grounded in empirical need and deliver measurable and sustainable impact.

ARK Group is an equal opportunity employer. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. ARK Group does not discriminate on the basis of ability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. We welcome all kinds of diversity. ARK Group places human dignity at the centre of its development and stabilisation work and is thus committed to the protection from sexual exploitation and abuse of children and adults. All ARK Group employees and related-personnel are expected to share this commitment, and only those who also uphold these values will be recruited as part of our team. This vacancy is therefore subject to a range of due diligence checks.