Turkey: Finance Improvement Consultant

Job Purpose To dive deep into details of current IhsanRD's financial management systems, and to enhance related operations, to enable IhsanRD to keep its organizational growth, and to control challenging operating environments.

Key Responsibilities

Finance Operations Improvement:

• Build and develop systems – set up highly efficient financial systems that take into account the highly technical payment, cash management, payroll and financial operating systems of a rapidly scaling, geographically distributed multi-unit operations. These systems need to be highly efficient or automated, data-driven, transparent and appropriate for emerging market conditions
• Develop financial and non-financial key performance indicators and the appropriate reporting to assess financial and operational performance across the organization.
• Ensure that systems and controls are in place to minimize and mitigate risk of fraud/leakage, as well as proactively audit key functions and accounts.
• Support business expansion strategies by forecasting and assessing the financial impact of key decisions.
• Maintain budgetary oversight at both a global and country-level of all departments within the organization; work closely with managers and senior executives on budgeting and forecast process.
• Manage the external audit process for financial statements; ensure that the organization is in compliance with internal policies and relevant regulations.
• Lead cash and risk management – manage banking relationships, cash flow-forecasting, working capital, etc.

Finance Personnel Development:

• Provide constructive on-the-job feedback/training for finance staff.
• Conduct technical performance reviews, and contribute to performance feedback for finance staff.
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop finance staff’s technical competencies.

Note: the above-mentioned key responsibilities/accountabilities are illustrative ones. Other future responsibilities/accountabilities may be assigned to the job depending on the department organizational chart.

Qualification (Education/Work Experience)

A.Essential:

• Bachelor Degree in business, finance, or any other related field.
• At least 10 years of experience within finance/corporate finance, including experience as Finance Director/VP Finance.
• Experience with NGO’s.
• Advanced level in both English and Arabic.

B.Desirable:

• Advanced graduate degree in business, finance, or any other related field.
• More than 10 years of experience within finance/corporate finance, including experience as Finance Director/VP Finance.
• Success operating in environments with INGO’s.

Core, Managerial, and Technical Competencies

A.Core Competencies:

Communication
Teamwork
Planning and Organizing
Accountability
Creativity
Client Orientation
Commitment to Continuous Learning
Technological Awareness

B.Supervisor/Managerial Competencies:Leadership
Building Trust
Vision
Managing Performance
Empowering Others
Judgment/Decision-making

C.Technical Competencies:Finance assessment and transformation.**
MS Excel/Access, SQL knowledge
CPA, CFA.
Inventory Management.
A range of experience across the following: supplier collaboration, product life-cycle management, sales and operations planning, procurement, operations, fulfillment, maintenance, return and recycle, shared services, accounts receivable, accounts payable

In case your qualifications, and competencies match the ones indicated in the job description, kindly send your recently updated resume to the following email: hr@ihsanrd.org