Senior Finance Officer
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1) Portfolio Management and planning
• Ensure that the financial project data is maintained in IUCN project management and financial systems;
• Manage the financial components of the portfolio of projects;
• Lead Data analyses to inform strategic planning;
• Provide strategic support to the Director in portfolio planning.
2) Financial Management
• Responsible for project financial management requirements and that Funds are met. This includes due diligence assessment for executing partners;
• Lead the development and implementation of specific financial management tools (budgets, financial planning, disbursement requests) for executing agencies to use across the full project cycle;
• Support negotiations on implementing agreements with executing agencies;
• Responsible for Financial and fiduciary capacity building matters to Portfolio Leaders and Executing Agencies in implementing financial management tools aligned with IUCN, GEF and GCF requirements;
• Responsible to assess fiduciary compliance with IUCN, GEF, and GCF policies and procedures during Project monitoring missions;
• Coordinate portfolio level audits as well as ensuring individual project audits requirements are met;
• Coordinate with respective Portfolio Leaders and PMU’s on compliance with the accreditation instruments with regards to Project Management cycles.
3) Project cycle management
• Participates in project reviews to ensure project financial management requirements both from IUCN and the Funds are met including due diligence assessment for executing partners;
• Lead the development and implementation of specific financial management tools (budgets, financial planning, disbursement requests) for executing agencies to use across the full project cycle;
• Support negotiations on execution agreements with executing agencies;
• Build the capacity on financial and fiduciary matters of Portfolio Leaders and Executing Agencies by implementing financial management tools aligned with IUCN, GEF and GCF requirements;
• Take part in selected Project monitoring missions to specifically assess fiduciary compliance with IUCN, GEF, and GCF policies and procedures;
• Coordinate portfolio level audits as well as ensuring individual project audits requirements are met;
• Coordinate with respective Portfolio Leaders and PMU’s on compliance with the accreditation instruments with regards to Project Management cycles.
The above job description contains the main duties and responsibilities for this position. However, in a small organisation such as IUCN, staff members are expected to show flexibility in their approach to work and be willing to undertake other tasks that are reasonably allocated to them but which are not part of their regular job description. Where any task becomes a regular part of a staff member’s responsibilities, the job description will be changed in consultation with the manager, the staff member and the Human Resources Management Group. Anyone of the three may initiate the consultation.
• A Master’s degree or higher in a field relevant to Business Management, Finance, Economics; • At least 7 years of experience in the financial management of large, complex natural resource management programmes, especially those focusing on forest conservation, sustainable management and restoration, water and marine resources management, land and ecosystems management; • Knowledge of GEF and GCF instruments required; • Professional Accounting or finance certification an added asset; • Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English and other IUCN official languages (French or Spanish) an asset; • Knowledge the nature conservation sector is an asset; • Knowledge of and work with IUCN and partners is an asset |
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