Finance Manager

TITLE: Finance Manager – South Sudan Cash Consortium

TEAM/PROGRAMME:

Consortium Management Unit (NCMU)

LOCATION: Juba, South Sudan (periodic travel to the areas of implementation) GRADE: 2

CONTRACT LENGTH: 1 year

CHILD SAFEGUARDING: (select only one)

Level 3: the post holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

The South Sudan Cash Consortium is a multi-partner coordination and delivery platform implementing harmonised Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA) and voucher programming across multiple states. The consortium operates under a shared governance structure with a Steering Committee and a Consortium Management Unit (CMU) responsible for coordination, compliance, risk oversight, and donor engagement.

The Finance Manager will be a core member of the CMU and will lead consortium-level financial oversight, compliance, partner financial monitoring, and donor financial reporting.

The Finance Manager is responsible for ensuring strong financial governance, compliance, transparency, and value for money across the consortium.

The role will:

• Provide strategic financial oversight at consortium level
• Monitor partner budgets and burn rates
• Ensure compliance with donor regulations (ECHO and others)
• Support risk mitigation and fiduciary controls
• Lead financial reporting and forecasting
• Strengthen financial systems and harmonisation across partners

This is a high-accountability role in a high-risk operational context.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Consortium Director

Functional Linkages: Steering Committee, Partner Finance Leads, SCI Country Finance, CMU team, SC Member Finance

KEY Responsibilities:

Consortium Financial Oversight:

• Lead consolidated consortium budgeting and financial planning
• Review and consolidate partner budgets and budget revisions
• Monitor burn rates and expenditure trends across partners
• Produce monthly consortium financial dashboards
• Ensure alignment between programmatic and financial delivery
• Provide regular forecast for decision making

Donor Compliance & Reporting

• Ensure full compliance with donors financial regulations and contractual obligations
• Lead preparation of interim and final financial reports
• Coordinate supporting documentation for donor verification
• Support audit processes (internal and external)
• Ensure timely closure of audit recommendations
• Advise Consortium Director on financial risk exposure

Partner Financial Monitoring

• Review partner financial reports for accuracy and eligibility
• Conduct spot checks and financial monitoring visits
• Track cost eligibility, supporting documentation, and transfer value compliance
• Ensure harmonised financial reporting templates across partners
• Support partners to address identified financial compliance gaps

Risk Management & Internal Controls

• Maintain consortium financial risk register
• Identify fiduciary risks and propose mitigation measures
• Support fraud prevention, reporting, and investigation processes
• Ensure segregation of duties and financial accountability mechanisms

Systems & Digital Integration

• Ensure financial tracking aligns with consortium MIS (RedRose, CommCare, …etc.)
• Coordinate reconciliation between finance records and distribution data
• Support digitalisation of financial monitoring tools

Strategic & Governance Support

• Present financial updates to Steering Committee
• Support value-for-money analysis
• Advise on cost-efficiency and optimisation strategies
• Contribute to proposal budgets and budget modifications
• Develop and manage financial policies and SOPs specific to cash programming

Training and Capacity Building:

• Identify financial management capacity gaps and training needs assessments for both finance and non-finance partner staff and provide hands on support and training for proper and effective use of resources
• Conduct support to field offices and partner offices to reconcile accounting records and provide relevant technical support at such intervals as may be required
• Provide training to partner finance teams on donor compliance and CVA financial management.
• Promote accountability, transparency, and safeguarding standards.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
• approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
• Professional certification (ACCA, CPA, CIMA or equivalent) strongly preferred

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• Minimum 5 years relevant working experience, preferably with International NGOs, with Strong knowledge of ECHO financial compliance requirements
• Good financial management skills with knowledge of computer Accounting Packages and good understanding of major donors financial requirements, conditions and Government budgets and tax policies.
• Experience managing multi-partner or consortium budgets
• Self motivated with demonstrated ability to generate financial reports and meet set deadlines and with good integrity.
• Team player with good interpersonal/communication, documentation, and facilitation skills and the ability to work under minimum supervision. Computer literary and fluency in English are a must.
• Ability to maintain personal professional development and competencies on financial issues.
• Strategic management and people management skills – team building and delegation.
• Strong negotiation, diplomacy and Confidentiality
• Computer literacy skills – MS office applications, word, excel, powerpoint, spread sheets.
• Good Policy Development and analytical skills
• Ability and willingness to undertake periodic field travel to up-country and in insecure areas.

Desirable

• Prior experience managing multi-partner and multi-donor budgets

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.