Regional Finance Manager at African Parks Network

Role and Responsibilities:

The regional role is key in ensuring excellence within our park finance teams. He/she will be the main link between park finance and head office. The individual will play a role of oversight/review, coordination, support, technical leadership and compliance monitoring.

The regional manager’s tasks include but not limited to the following:

• Compliance reviews within the parks to ensure adherence to SOPs
• Assisting in implementing systems or enhancing internal controls where deficiencies are noted
• Will be the first point of contact between head office and park finance (i.e. acts as a link into head office)
• Will assist with audits, review of annual reporting packs and ensuring audit readiness (annual statutory audits as well as donor audits)
• Will provide training/onboarding to new finance managers and ongoing training to the park finance team as and when needed
• To provide support to the regional operations manager in terms of finance issues
• Ensure management reports are available in order that monthly financial reviews are done by PMUs
• Will act as stand in finance manager for parks if necessary

Technical leadership and training

• To provide leadership on more strategic matters such as: systems and software, audit and technical IFRS/OHADA matters, taxation matters, the intricacies of undrawn funds and disbursements.
• To conduct training to the Finance teams and Park Managers, as and when the need arises
• Represent the park during board meetings.

Support and knowledge share

• Will be responsible for the onboarding of new finance managers in his/her region.
• Reviews the donor status of the parks, ensuring that the funding gap is correct, ensuring that new grants are communicated.

Audits

• Support the process by ensuring: the audit timelines are adhered to.
• Lead all donor audits

Oversight/review

• Review of park annual budget before it gets submitted to CFO
• Review of the park monthly report, ensuring accurate and timely processing of transactions as well as correct donor allocations
• Review of investment approvals completed by park

Compliance

• Undertake frequent compliance checks, providing formalised feedback to the full park team.

Required Qualifications, Competencies and Experience:

• Partly qualified CA, or CMIA, ACCA, or a university degree in Finance
• Experience in leading teams
• Experience in multi-donor funded project is an added
• Good knowledge of excel and IT systems
• Ability to travel for extended periods