Finance Coordinator

Social Development International SDI is a non-profit NGO established in 2015 and daily registered in Turkey, which provides humanitarian assistance to affected people in Syria. SDI services are covering northern Syria areas through its programs which are SNFIs, health, nutrition, education, WASH, protection, FSL, and CCCM. Currently looking for a qualified Financial Coordinator.

Jobtitle: Financial Coordinator

Reporting to: Finance Manager

Closing Date: 05/02/2023

Location: Istanbul OR Gaziantep – Türkiye

Responsibilities:

• Facilitates the preparation of the budget for proposals, review the programmatic costs, is responsible for proper budgeting of the operational costs for NWS and Turkey, consolidates the financial inputs into donor templates, fills out all the donor annexes related to finance/budget
• Ensures proper financial management of the projects and makes sure the costs are allocated in line with internal and donor rules.
• Prepare project forecasting file for each project, update it on a periodical basis and support all the budget holders in the forecasting process, flag issues to finance manager follow up on corrections.
• Keeps track of financial reporting deadlines.
• Prepare all financial reports.
• Closely monitor all financial activities.
• Review budgets with actual reports to ensure adherence to restrictions on line item flexibility and stated restrictions on accepted costs.
• Provide overall grant management support, and ensure compliance with the accounting and auditing requirements.
• Maintain an adequate filing system of financial documents in collaboration with the finance team.
• Support the Finance Manager to ensure monthly cash forecast/requirements are compiled for all departments.
• Support program teams for financial accounting, monitoring, and reporting systems in line.

Audits:

• Plays an active role during the project and statutory audits in Turkey.
• Coordinates the preparation of the audited sample, checks on completeness.
• Communicates with auditors and follow up on their queries.
• Follow up on the implementation of the recommendations related to project financial management, shared costs management, etc.

Team Management:

• Supervision of finance team.
• Team development and training. Provide necessary on-job training and identify needs for development for each member of the team.
• Conduct semi-annual performance evaluations, suggest promotions, and approve leaves.
• Ensure the staff JDs are up to date.
• Re-organize tasks and workload in the team as necessary.

Other:

• Other tasks assigned by the employee’s Line Manager corresponding to the actual needs of the mission, programs, and projects.

REQUIREMENTS AND COMPETENCIES

• University degree in Finance or any other relevant field.
• Relevant professional experience of not less than 5 years.
• Familiarity/prior experience with the Humanitarian/NGO sector.
• Familiar with the humanitarian context in Syria.
• MS Office programs are a must and advanced level Word & Excel applications.
• The ability to travel to the SDI's offices in Istanbul and Gaziantep
• Good communication skills.
• Have High integrity and demonstrated ability to follow standards and policies.
• Strong interpersonal, intercultural, and communication skills.
• Flexibility to prioritise and manage different tasks duly and effectively.
• Fluency in written and verbal English and Arabic, and Turkish will be asset.

SDI Commitment on Child Safeguarding - CPS

Actions of Child abuse and exportation violate the universally recognized international legal norms and standards. Thus, SDI considers such actions as serious misconduct, which will constitute grounds for major measures, including summary dismissal and criminal prosecution. SDI prohibits sexual exploitation and abuse of Children, and proved cases of such will be meet with Zero tolerance by SDI management.

SDI is an organization working with vulnerable populations, including children, both directly and indirectly. Thus, SDI has a moral responsibility and a duty to protect children within the population that we serve from both intentional and unintentional harm. SDI understands that all staff needs to be aware of this policy even though many of the staff may never have unaccompanied contact with children or young people through their work. It is not possible to eliminate risk entirely, but we are obliged to develop strategies and mechanisms to reduce the risk.

SDI Commitment on Protection of Sexual exportation and Abuse - PSEA

The actions of SEA violate the universally recognized international legal norms and standards. Thus, SDI considers such actions as serious misconduct, which will constitute grounds for major measures, including summary dismissal and criminal prosecution. SDI prohibits sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), and proved cases of such will be meet with Zero tolerance by SDI management.

To the end of meeting with the fundamental values of SDI, this policy is designed to address the behavior of SDI staff, and its collaborators toward the served population and to protect vulnerable populations within the communities served by SDI from any acts of sexual exploitation and abuse which is considered as an element of the accountability that SDI holds towards the served communities.

SDI Commitment on Protection of Sexual Harassments and discrimination - PSHH

The actions of SHH violate the ethical norms and damages the team spirit. Thus, SDI considers such actions as serious misconduct, which will constitute grounds for major measures, including summary dismissal and criminal prosecution if relevant. SDI prohibits SHH, and proved cases of such will be meet with Zero tolerance by SDI management.

To the end of meeting with the fundamental values of SDI, this policy is designed to address the behavior of SDI staff and its collaborators towards one another and to protect staff within the environment of SDI from any acts of sexual harassment and harassment which is considered as an element of the accountability that SDI holds towards its staff.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please fill out the:

https://airtable.com/shr3cBuOVsLB9IL7N

no later than 05-Feb-2023

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

SDI reserves the right to close this advert before the confirmed closing date when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. SDI has the right to close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate, and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.