Senior Finance and Compliance Manager

Senior Finance and Compliance Manager

• Oversee compliance with BC’s contractual obligations to the donor in areas such as due diligence, financial management, procurement, and reporting requirements. This includes ensuring inputs from the project team are timely, quality assured, and submission deadlines met, as well as advising other members of the Senior Management team on compliance.

• Lead on internal business and project planning and reporting for KaB, including workplans, risk and issue management, annual reporting and monitoring and evaluation (including supporting the full time M&E lead in ensuring alignment with BC’s Results Evaluation Framework).

• Ensure regional management information requests are met and project and business management assurances in place. Contribute to financial /risk management reporting.

• Ensure that effective governance arrangements are in place and operating effectively for the project, including co-ordinating inputs into the project board meetings, client meetings and internal planning and reporting and management information requests.

• Accountability for project office management and ensuring effective and compliant systems in place, including procurement management, management of services, IT solutions, information management, ensuring overall office functionality and in meeting audit and business quality assurance requirements.

• Lead on financial planning, forecasting, cash flow, and reporting and analysis of all project financial data in accordance with British Council and donor requirements

• Lead the Finance, Grants and Compliance team to ensure accurate financial management and project budget meeting required standards

• Establish the project financial management, compliance and grants system according to donor requirements

• Lead on the due diligence of implementing partner’s financial management practices and controls

• Develop contract budget monitoring tool for accurate monitoring of project budget and provide commercial forecasts accordingly on demand

• Review and finalise financial reports to be submitted to the donor for approvals

• Ensure financial delegation is in line with donor and British Council requirements

• Lead on budget revisions in coordination with the finance support from British Council

• Lead on periodic financial checks

• Advise the Team Lead and Deputy Team Lead on all financial issues and risks

• Identify financial risks and mitigating actions to the Team Lead, Deputy Team Lead and Project Director

• Liaison with British Council Finance Team and Programme Director with regards to contract management, financial planning and reporting and compliance to all key British Council policies

• Be the focal person for internal and donor audit and expenditure verifications

• Interpret and follow British Council and donor project procedures (project, financial and risk reporting) to ensure compliance with all systems and standards

• Supervise and ensure compliance of all financial activities including grants

• Key project stakeholders including project partners and consultants

• Programme Director, SRO,Team Leader, Senior Programme Manager

• British Council Finance Team

• Strong presentation and communication skills
• Embedding culture and behavioural change to improve effectiveness and efficiency
• Strong people management and negotiation skills

• Developing and reviewing the implementation of annual plans for a work group or function,
• Taking account of business and customer requirements and reconciling competing demands.
• Monitoring and control of an agreed budget within a defined area, producing reports, analyses, contributing to planning.

• Managing Accounts and Partnerships (L5)
• Sets overall direction for the formation and management of strategic relationships, collaborations and contracts with stakeholder, customers and partners in a significant market.

• Influences and manages relationships at the highest levels to build mutual understanding, shapes perceptions of the British Council and creates positive change over the medium term.