Senior Manager, Regional Finance Operations (Francophone)

 

Senior Manager, Regional Finance Operations (Francophone)

Location: Ethiopia, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Nigeria, Madagascar, Benin, Tanzania, ZimbabweLocation type: Remote Eligible - Location subject to manager approvalReports to: Deputy Director, Regional Finance*If you are unsure if you are in an eligible location, please visit our Career page for more details.

Welcome to PSI!PSI is a network of locally rooted, globally connected organizations working to achieve consumer-powered healthcare — people-centered health systems that ensure quality, affordable care wherever and whenever it is needed. Our origins in sexual and reproductive health have grown into a broader mission. Today, we work with the public and private sectors as well as local communities, prioritizing people’s voice and choice and developing solutions to meet their essential health needs. Over the past five decades, we have helped push boundaries, break taboos, set trends, and develop innovative solutions to complex global health challenges.

 

Do you want to join PSI to help make it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire? Read on!

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The Regional Finance Operations team works with the finance teams in 50+ country offices around the world to build capacity, implement processes and systems, and ensure timely and accurate financial reporting. We help recruit local finance teams by writing job descriptions and interviewing, and testing candidates. We train the country finance teams regarding accounting policy and procedure, providing necessary technical support on QuickBooks Enterprise or Infor Lawson, and help create change management plans to support full adoption. We review and address issues on balance sheets and monthly financial packets. We help prepare management responses to audit reports and action plans to remediate findings. We travel to country offices often to provide on-site support.

 

PSI seeks a Senior Manager, Regional Finance Operations to provide financial and accounting operational support to PSI's French-speaking country offices in the Africa region, as well as select English-speaking country offices. This person will serve as the counterpart to Directors of Administration and Finance (DAF) or other heads of Finance for the countries in their portfolio. An expert for country offices on PSI accounting systems, global finance policies and procedures, balance sheet review and risk assessments, and audit management.

 

What You'll Do

• Review and address issues on balance sheets and monthly financial packets (includes field grading and other reports). Promote compliance with or assess deviations from PSI global finance polices, provide input on global finance policy development or revisions; support resolution of variances in balance sheet reconciliations between PSI/W and country offices (QBE).

• Serve as the First Line of Support for Field-Based Financial Operations may include functional (direct) reporting line for one or more country office finance staff. Assist in change management around HQ requirements, including adoption of new policies and procedures. Lead roll-out of new accounting systems and provide post go-live support.

• Build capacity of Country Office Finance Teams. Provide input on or review of country office finance team structures, recruitment and onboarding of country office finance team leaders. Provide onsite and off-site training of finance team leaders.

• Support field office Finance Directors in efficiently conducting and closing local audits, including maintaining a schedule of in-country audits, Work with country office leadership and HQ External Audit team to ensure documentation is compiled quickly and completely for both country and HQ financial transactions, support timely development and implementation of items identified in management action plans on audit issues.

• Embody PSI’s values: Measurement, Pragmatism, Honesty, Trust, Collaboration, and Commitment.

• 26-50% international travel

 

Time percentages listed above are not exact. They are estimates and may change. This is also not an exhaustive list of all tasks that an incumbent is expected to perform but is instead a summary of the primary responsibilities and requirements of the job. The incumbent may be asked to perform duties not included above. PSI reserves the right to revise job profiles at any time based on changes to the required job responsibilities.

 

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's Degree (or international equivalent) in a related field.

• At least 10 years of re