PSI Madagascar seeks experienced candidates for the position of Deputy Country Representative for Corporate Services & Finance (DCR-CSF). The DCR- CSF will report to the Country Representative (CR) of PSI Madagascar and the position is based in Antananarivo. The DCR-CSF will work with the CR to provide overall leadership for developing and overseeing PSI Madagascar’s finances and administration.
The DCR-CSF should speak fluent French and have significant technical and managerial experience, including demonstrated success in financial management, project management, capacity building, institutional communication and organizational development.
Under the supervision of the CR, the DCR-CSF will:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Represent the organization in all financial and administrative aspects before external parties including: funders, auditors, local government and PSI headquarters in Washington, DC.
- Maintain sound accounting systems that give reasonable assurance that records and controls are sufficient to ensure accuracy and reliability of financial information for expenditure monitoring and information.
- Provide effective support in terms of corporate services including Human Resources, Procurement and Administration (Warehouse, Fleet, Administration and IT).
- Maintain an independent procurement team and lead vendor relationship assessment
- Support design of strategic human resources system (staff compensation, training and development)
- Develop and drive compliance with local policies and procedures in line with PSI Washington’s global policies, local law, and funder regulations (including the Global Fund and the United States government). Obtain approval of policy deviation requests were needed.
- Liaise with local tax authorities and other local governmental agencies as needed.
- Create, implement and monitor a strategic plan to achieve financial and administrative goals, including streamlining operations and strengthening internal controls and compliance, in line with PSI’s Corporate Strategic Plan.
- Work with the Directors and Coordinators to attain PSI Network Minimum standards.
- Provide management accounts and analysis to the Senior Management Team to facilitate decision making.
- Certify financial statements and funder financial reports. Ensure that monthly close is performed timely, efficiently and effectively.
- Ensure that sub-awardees comply with funder regulations and financial reporting requirements.
- Manage relationships with multiple external auditors. Supervise multiple external audits per year; liaise with Internal Auditor; prepare management comments for audit reports; create and implement action plans to correct audit findings.
- Support budget development and monitoring. Work with the Country Representative, Program Team, Technical Services Team and Washington Backstopping Team to: create funder, departmental and annual operating budgets; monitor burn rates; and realign budgets as needed.
- Approve requests for cash advances from headquarters, manage cash flow in the country office and maintain relationships with local banks.
- Manage implementation and ongoing training and support of an ERP (Lawson) in multiple locations and transition from cash basis to accrual basis accounting.
- Manage capacity building and professional growth of Corporate Service staff.
- Conduct routine oversight and supervision visits to all field offices to review the quality of business operations systems and activities across and provide support where necessary.
- Serve as point security liaison for PSI Madagascar; regularly review security plans and serve as point for the field on all security issues.
- Provide direct supervision, including personnel recruitment, management, coaching and mentoring, as well as performance management to the Directors and/or Senior Coordinators for the following departments: Accounting, Procurement, Human Resources, Warehouse, Fleet, IT and Administration.
- Assist the CR with other tasks and projects as necessary, including representing the CR in meetings as requested.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Graduate degree in accounting or management preferred
- Professional accounting qualification (e.g. chartered or certified) preferred
- 8+ years’ experience in not-for-profit management required
- Familiarity with USAID and Global Fund regulations required
- Experience with QuickBooks preferred, knowledge of Lawson or ERP systems preferred. Strong working knowledge of spreadsheets required.
- Fluency in French and English is required and fluency in Malagasy preferred
- Proven track record in management and demonstrated leadership skills required
- Proven ability to manage team in a dynamic, fast paced environment
- Strong sense of integrity
- Ability to manage complexity and balance priorities in a fast-paced work environment.
- Strategic, creative, analytical, result and customer-oriented
- Good active listener, good communicator
- Committed, self-motivated and solution-oriented; organized but flexible
- Strongly motivated by humanitarian causes
- Can-do attitude, go-getter
STATUS:
- Exempt
- Level 6
APPLY ONLINE athttp://www.psi.org**. No calls or emails, please.**
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individualsregardless of race, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or disability.
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