Finance Officer

Background/IRC Summary:

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRCboffers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war and disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, we restore dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

IRC has been working in Pakistan for approximately 40 years, managing and delivering large, complex programs to meet the needs in health, education, safeguarding, environmental health and livelihoods for displaced, poor and disaster affected communities. With the support of the federal and provincial governments, and generous donors like FCDO, ECHO, USAID, GAC and Australian Aid Agencies the IRC is currently implementing projects across the country.

The IRC launched 5-year USAID’s “Women’s Economic Empowerment Activity” (WEEA) to promote women’s economic empowerment through safe and dignified access to livelihood opportunities, information, resources, and services in the target districts of Pakistan. The WEEA target districts include a total of six districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Punjab.

Job Overview/Summary: Finance Officer will be responsible for the financial management of various donor grants.

This position will assist the Finance Coordinator - Projects in effective financial management of project grant to facilitate smooth implementation of the projects.

Major Responsibilities:

The incumbent is responsible for ensuring the financial management, operations and reporting of projects in accordance with IRC policies and donor regulations. Specific responsibilities are as follows:

1. Collaborate with Program, Operations, Award Management Unit and Partnership teams for strategic program-finance linkages by providing timely analytics and guidance about financial policies.

2. Assist Finance Coordinator in monitoring Projects budgets to ensure that spending occurs as planned and that variances are anticipated, noted, and corrected.

3. Assist in reviewing the preparation of monthly funding requirements and ensure that all programs receive the funds as per their requirement in a timely manner.

4. Assist in preparing monthly variance analysis reports for each budget, including accruals, and review with individual program managers.

5. Assist in budget revisions and projections for IRC projects.

6. Finance officer will review Cash payment documents as per policy and highlight any shortcomings in documentation for rectification by program.

7. Summaries the monthly advance requests and assist Country Finance and Senior Project Manager to issue advances in timely manner.

8. Keep record of monthly payments, balances, and variance for field staff.

9. Visit field with program team to verify documents and other data on regular basis. September 2021

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to: Finance Coordinator - Projects

Position directly supervises: None

Requirements:

a) Education Requirements: Bachelor’s in commerce/Finance and Accounting

b) Work Experience Requirements:

At least 3 years of work experience in financial reporting, budgeting, and general administration

c) Skills & Competencies:

 Proficient in English and Urdu languages

Proven experience and track record of timely and high-quality completion of assignments.

Ability to handle multiple tasks

Effective communication and negotiation skills

 Willingness to travel to project sites

Ability to work under stress and pressure

Command on MS Excel.

The IRC Core Values and Commitments

The IRC and IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for

Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child

Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity Anti-Retaliation and Combating Trafficking in Persons.

IRC is committed to ensuring that IRC staff is suitable to work with children and have the knowledge s/he needs to uphold and abide by the IRC’s Child Safeguarding Policy.

o Level of interaction with children: Less frequent direct contact with children

 IRC recognizes that gender equality is fundamental to the achievement of our organizational mission. As such, IRC is committed to the promotion of gender equality in all aspects of our operations and programs. Our organizational policies, procedures and actions demonstrate this commitment.

Women candidates, minorities and persons with disability are highly encouraged to apply