Location: Antananarivo, Madagascar, with regular travel to our sites in Madagascar
Closing date for applications : March 04th, 2022
Start date : As soon as possible
Contract duration : A guide of 6 months is suggested for the initial period
Contract type: Consultancy contract
Remuneration : A gross competitive salary, based on experience
Blue Ventures is seeking an individual specialist (not a company) on a full time basis to carry out a review of our financial procedures within our financial system ensuring that we have, at the end of the process, a system that is well understood by staff and fit for purpose.
Responsibilities
- Carry out a desktop review of the current prescribed systems and processes, for all financial transactions including a review of BV’s SDA (Scheme of Delegation Authority) to ensure that approvals processes are clearly outlined.
- Review and refine the Financial Management Manual and support its roll-out to the sites, including an assessment of how descriptive our policies need to be in order for them to be easily followed
- Provide financial technical support and advice to the programme staff, including capacity building in financial management & planning
- Guide the development of strong procurement policies and procedures to minimise opportunities for irregularities and fraud…
Skills and experience:
- Experience in financial control or financial management
. A Chartered accountant would be desirable. - Considerable previous relevant experience in financial functions including accounts and bookkeeping, procurement and supply chain
- International NGO experience, is highly advantageous to have experience with country programmes that are expanding
- Demonstrable experience of progressive development across your career from local to country level responsibility
- Demonstrable experience in donor compliance issues across a range of institutional donors
- Demonstrable experience in system creation or system modification that meets donor compliance regulations
- Knowledge of the malagasy “Code de Passation de Marché” would be a plus
- Knowledge of the Malagasy governmental reporting regulations would be a plus
- Fluency in French and English is essential with Malagasy highly desirable
- Good numerical and IT skills (Google Docs – is highly desired)
Download full ToR here
How to apply
Applicants should apply online, via Blue Ventures website (https://blueventures.org/about/careers/) by March 04th 2022. Due to the nature of BV’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.