Panama: Officer, Finance

Job Purpose

The post holder is responsible to provide efficient and effective services in accounting, finance and treasury matters to the project managers and officers within a specified portfolio of projects. The main areas of his/her roles can be summarized as follows:

• Financial Policies and Processes
• Financial reporting
• Budgeting
• Validation of transactions
• Support in treasury matters
• Financial Analysis
• Processing of specific accounting transactions
• Support, assist and advise the National Societies
• Relationships with other stakeholders: project managers, unit staff, country cluster or office coordinators, auditors, finance analysts, senior finance officer and regional financial controller

Education

• A university or professional school degree in an accounting or finance related area
• Qualification in business administration or auditing-Preferred

Experience

• 3+ years of professional experience in a finance or accounting department -Required
• 2 years of field experience in a humanitarian organisation-Preferred
• Experience managing and supporting staff - Preferred
• Experience working with the Red Cross / Red Crescent - Preferred

Knowledge, skills and languages

• Self-supported in computing systems (e.g. accounting software package and MS Office)
• Excellent communication skills
• Good analytical skills and solution focused person
• Time Management Skills
• Skills in training and developing staff-Preferred

Languages:

• Fluently spoken and written English-Required
• Good command of another IFRC official language (French, Spanish or Arabic)-Preferred

Competencies and values

• Values: Respect for Diversity, Integrity, Professionalism, Accountability
• Competencies: Communication, Collaboration and Teamwork, Judgement and Decision Making, National Society and Customer Relations, Creativity and Innovation, Building Trust

Comments

Applicants will need to send their applications together with a letter of motivation no later than the closing date. In order to assure a proper comparative evaluation of your application for this vacancy and to enable us to consider your profile against other similar current and future vacancies, we ask that you submit your application taking into account the following:

Important Note:

Please note that the selected candidate will be hired through a national contract; therefore, only nationals of Panama or foreigners holding a valid work permit will be considered;

• The incumbent is responsible to abide by Federation policies, procedures, plans and applicable national laws;
• The closing date is midnight Geneva time.
• Only those candidates shortlisted for interviews will be notified.
• The position will be based in Panama, Republic of Panama

Interested applicants may visit the following link to view the full job description and submit their application: http://www.ifrc.org/en/who-we-are/working-with-us/current-vacancies/job-description/?id=9075