What we are looking for:
We are seeking an experienced Finance Adviser to provide strategic financial leadership for NRC's global and regional grants portfolio. In this role, you will oversee grant budgeting, financial reporting, compliance, internal controls, and donor financial management while ensuring adherence to NRC policies and procedures.
Working as part of a global team, you will partner with country, regional, and global colleagues to strengthen financial management, support proposal development, build grants management capacity, and provide expert financial advice that enables high-quality humanitarian programming. Flexibility, collaboration, and a solutions-oriented mindset are essential, as priorities and responsibilities are shared across the team to meet organisational needs.
Please note: This opportunity is open to NRC internal candidates who have the right to live and work in EU.
What you will do:
Here are some of your generic responsibilities
- Support and monitor compliance with the Finance handbooks and NRC policies and implement quality assurance and control for projects managed by the Global Grants Mngt structure.
- Provide Financial advice and technical support to assigned grants budget holders and project teams and conduct trainings and capacity development when necessary.
- Responsible for efficient financial management of assigned grants including budget reviews, monitoring, spending plans, financial reporting, year-end closing and audit.
- Responsible for bookkeeping assurance of assigned grants.
- Contribute to the development of financial procedures, tools and efficient financial management approaches for use in complex or multi-donor projects, including but not limited to regional and global projects.
- Follow up on external and donor project audits.
- Ensure that global grants’ best financial practices are identified, documented, and disseminated within the department and beyond.
- Provide regular Finance analysis and reports for global grants as assigned by the Head of Finance.
- Support Field Operations Head of Finance in tasks related to the department financial management upon request.
- Compliance and adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures for Finance, and a specific responsibility for the functions policies and procedures.
Here are some of your specific responsibilities
- Oversight and control of global projects country components budgets.
- Work closely with staff in the Global Grants Mngt structure and other relevant stakeholders on improving the financial management of global grants, including institutional and corporate/private sector grants from concept note phase to audit.
- Take part and contribute to project related meetings (go/no go, proposal development, reviews and status, close-out etc) and provide concrete financial guidance to relevant stakeholders.
- Conduct monthly internal control practices, such as but not limited to monitoring managed projects income flow from donors, updating projects spending plans, ensuring FO AX project transactions are distributed to respective projects, , and ensuring project teams timesheets are in place and archived, in-line with NRC and donors’ requirements, among other Securing Supporting Documents checks.
- Implement periodic and year-end closing practices for projects managed by the Global Grants Mngt structure in close collaboration with global Grants staff, global projects managers and FO Finance team.
Please download the detailed job description to learn more about the position.
What you will bring:
- University degree in finance, accounting and/or business management.
- Experience in financial management of large/complex multi-country global and regional projects.
- Experience with complex donors such as GFFO, FCDO, ECHO.
- Experience in financial management of consortium projects.
- Strong financial and analytical skills.
- Experience from working in a technical Finance position and with projects implemented at country. level with exposure to financial monitoring tools, complex project funding etc.
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
- Understanding and experience using Agresso/Unit4 is necessary.
- Experience with complex donors and multi-country projects is required.
- Experience from NRC especially working at/coordinating with the country level will be necessary.
- Service mindedness is required.
What we offer:
- Duty station: Oslo, Norway.
- Contract: Temporary (2 years).
- Travel: 10-15% (in case of relevant gap-filling requests).
- Salary/benefits: Grade 8 on NRC’s Resident salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions.
- NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
- We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.
Find out more about the benefits of working for NRC
Important information about the application process
- For Internal candidates: To apply as an internal candidate, log in with your official email or click on Opportunity Market Place.
- When creating your profile, include your full name as given on your passport. Complete all the system-required fields for experience, employment history and education.
- Submit your application and CV in English, taking care to attach your latest CV.
- Applications that do not meet the minimum standards in terms of experience or qualifications will generally not be considered. Unsolicited applications not related to this specific job advertisement will not be considered.
- We receive many applications for each vacant position and so only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
If you have any questions about this role, please email ho.recruitment@nrc.no with the job title as the subject line.
Why NRC?
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. Our 15,000 staff work in crises across 40 countries, providing life-saving and long-term assistance to millions of people every year.
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We are looking for people who are passionate about helping refugees and people forced to flee. Are you one of those people? If you are, NRC offers you the opportunity to:
- do demanding and professional work, often in challenging contexts.
- join a work culture that empowers every employee to share ideas and take responsibility.
- be part of a welcoming and supportive community committed to human dignity.
Organization context
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a global humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.
Join us in assisting millions of people in areas where others cannot, tackling some of the world's most dangerous and difficult crises. Bring your skills and dedication to an organisation recognised for providing high quality aid and for defending the rights of refugees and internally displaced people.
At NRC, we give responsibility to employees at all levels and foster professional growth and innovative teams. You can expect a supportive culture and an open dialogue with management. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Together, we save lives and rebuild futures.
Safeguarding is central to NRC’s work. We expect all employees to:
• treat everyone with respect and dignity
• contribute to building a safe environment for all
• never engage in any form of exploitation, harassment and specifically sexual exploitation, abuse and sexual harassment (SEAH)
• always report. NRC has a zero-tolerance approach to inaction against exploitation, abuse and SEAH
