Finance Officer at Expertise France: (Deadline 21 February 2025)

Finance Officer at Expertise France: (Deadline 21 February 2025)

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Finance Officer

About Expertise France :

Expertise France is the french public agency for international cooperation. The Agency focuses on four priority areas:

• Democratic, economic and financial governance;
• Stability of countries in crisis/post-crisis situations and security;
• Combating climate change and favouring sustainable urban development;
• Strengthening health systems, social protection and employment.

In these areas, Expertise France engineers and implements capacity-building projects, mobilizes technical expertise and acts as a project coordinator, bringing together public expertise and private know-how.

With a business volume of 390 million euros and over 400 projects in 145 countries, Expertise France’s activities are part of France’s international cooperation policy and official development assistance.

Expertise France Rwanda implements 6 projects, mainly financed by the European Union and French Development Agengy (AFD), for a total amount of €50 million. The agency’s main areas of intervention in Rwanda are:

• Economic and financial governance
• Sustainable development, climate and agriculture ;
• Health and human development

Job description

Expertise France is opening its new office in Kigali and its Projects Support Unit (USP) with the aim of decentralizing support services in the field. The USP is composed of the procurement, logistics, finance and human resources departments required for projects implementation. It is supervised by the the Head of Support. We are looking for senior and motivated candidates with experience in international organizations for these challenging positions where everything remains to be done.

Based in Kigali, the position is under the direct responsibility of the Administrative and Finance Manager (AFM) of the USP and in liaison with the finance teams of the projects in HQ and on the field.

Missions: the main missions entrusted to the Finance Officer :

Financial reporting and analysis:

• Supports operational teams in project budget planning;
• Analyzes under/over consumption of project budgets and assists project managers, AMF and CFT in decision-making;
• Analyzes various internal profitability indicators;
• Participates in preparation of external financial reports in conjunction with the AMF;
• Contributes to internal reporting (RPP, initial budget, revised budget) and analyzes it with the finance department and operational staff;
• Monitoring of donor disbursements

Budget monitoring:

• Making and accounting of Payment Authorization Forms (PAF) on ATLAS and SAGE when deployed.
• Regularization of advances on Financial Follow-up
• Collects and verifies all administrative and financial documents in accordance with the accounting division
• Ensures documents archiving in accordance with internal procedures
• Prepares and carries out a pre-analysis of Financial and budget follow-ups to submit to the AFM for validation

Management control :

• Ensureds eligibility of expenses according to rules;
• Ensures monthly reconciliation of expenses between Atlas, Sage and Financial Follow-ups
• Prepare quarterly project closings with AMF and Accounting division
• Ensures reliability of financial data
• Prepare project closings in conjunction with head office management control

Other :

• Support CFT in project development as needed
• Prepare audits

Position in the organization chart (hierarchical and functional links)

• Reporting to: Administrative and Financial Manager

Qualifications:

• BAC +5 in management and accounting;
• Strong capacity of work, rigor and organization;
• Excelent use of Office Pack and accounting tools;
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills;
• Adaptability and flexibility;
• Good written and oral expression in French and English is mandatory;
• Knowledge of donor rules

Professional experience :

• At least 6 years’ experience in a similar position;
• Experience in international cooperation is strongly required

Type of contract: local contract through HR services company (at first, with aim of direct recruitment by Expertise France)

Remuneration: competitive remuneration will be offered according to Expertise France’ salary scale and candidate’s qualification and experience.

How to apply :

Apply only on this link :

https://expertise-france.gestmax.fr/apply/12633/1

Before 13/02/2025

Candidates interested in this opportunity are invited to submit their applications as soon as possible. Expertise France reserves the right to pre-select candidates before this date.

The selection process will take place in three stages:

• Firstly, a shortlist will be freely drawn up by Expertise France.
• Secondly, shortlisted candidates may be invited to take written tests to assess their technical and linguistic skills.
• Thirdly, shortlisted candidates may be invited for an interview.

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