Senior Finance Manager

Client Industry: NGO

Location: Brickfields

The role of the Senior Finance Manager is to manage financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and ensuring compliance with accounting standards required by the organization. The position will manage contracts for outsourced functions as part of the operations management team the role will also contribute to the overall effectiveness of the organization in meeting its goals and objectives and in maintaining its practice principles.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning

• Develop and supply cash flow projections on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Develop annual operational and project budgets in consultation with the Operations Director and the managers.
• Assist the Operations Director with all proposal budgets.

Financial Management

• To develop and implement, in collaboration with the OD, mechanisms for monitoring, evaluating and improving financial systems.
• Ensure the development of accurate and timely, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual financial statements and project financial reports for the management team, program management team and funders.
• Ensure purchasing and expenditure approvals adhere to s policies (banking, payroll, ledger entry, accounts and other financial matters).
• Conduct finance and programme team meeting on financial planning and expenditure tracking on a regular basis.
• Monitor assigned project partners reports, ensure compliance with donor’s and approved budget regularly.

Financial Reporting

• Oversee and ensure the organization and project audits are completed in timely and satisfactory manner.
• Ensure financial reports to donors are submitted to OD in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with donors’ requirements and accounting standards.
• Report on assigned due diligence to OD

Team Management and Leadership

• Ensure that high quality financial services are delivered.
• Provide comprehensive finance section orientation to new members of the finance staff team.
• Supply regular and frequent supervision and support finance staff to achieve appropriate team goals.
• Supervision and mentoring the finance officers including orientation, identifying training needs, personnel appraisal and review/updating of their job descriptions.
• Provide timely and constructive feedback to team members on quality of work.
• Assist finance staff to develop individual annual work plans.
• Enable conducive environment for effective self-management and operational management.
• Set and uphold institutional work culture and create a positive and healthy work environment.
• Provide support to assigned project partners finance team.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum 5-8 years’ experience in a financial management role ideally with a regional or international organization.
• A minimum of a master's degree or Professional in accountancy.
• 4 years audit experience is compulsory.
• Energetic, flexible, collaborative, proactive, sense of humor; a team leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical programme initiatives.
• Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills including negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong mentoring, coaching experience to a team with diverse levels of expertise.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: RM10,000.00 - RM12,000.00 per month

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Audit: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person