Analyst, Finance (Bilingual)

Organizational Context

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world's largest humanitarian network, with 191 member National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. IFRC uses the Triple R - response, resilience and respect - to deliver on Strategy 2030. IFRC responds to disasters and crises, ensuring timely, coordinated and locally led humanitarian action. IFRC supports its members in building community resilience in the areas of climate and environment, health and wellbeing, and migration and displacement. IFRC promotes respect for our fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality, including in our work on values, power and inclusion. The IFRC focuses throughout on our core mandate - our raison d'être - of strategic and operational coordination, humanitarian diplomacy, National Society development, and accountability.

IFRC is led by its Secretary General and has its Headquarters in Geneva and five regional offices in Africa (Nairobi); the Americas (Panama); Asia Pacific (Kuala Lumpur); Europe (Budapest); and MENA (Beirut) as well as representation offices, service centres and delegations across the globe.

The IFRC has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment and other forms of harassment, abuse of authority, discrimination, and lack of integrity (including but not limited to financial misconduct). IFRC also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles.

Job Purpose

The Finance Analyst is responsible for ensuring a high level of financial control by providing financial management support and advice to minimum four offices located in the African Region.

Job Duties and

Internal Control and Risk Management

Screening through monthly original supporting documents and field returns from country delegation and feedback if there were any discrepancies or anomalies.

Carry out field missions to country delegation at least once or twice a year as pre-audit measure to ensure finance functions and controls are in place.

Review internal controls through the review of monthly financial documents, provide feedback to the country finance and head of delegation on control weaknesses, identify top risks facing a country delegation and support the delegation to address the same.

Ensure all delegation have signed up to date petty cash policy with clear segregation of duties

Ensure all delegation have up to date Cash disbursement Memo and segregation of duties on system access and bank signatories.

Support country delegation in conducting risk assessments.

Advice country delegation on how to conduct control and self-assessment

Advice country heads and finance managers on financial controls

Review high risk transactions especially in areas touching on procurement and identify any areas of concern

Detect and highlight any suspicion of fraud and escalate to the Head of finance

Financial Reporting

Preparing the cash request analysis, reviewing the project management status report, and highlighting issues to follow up.

Reviewing the cash requests from cluster and country delegation including preparing the cash request analysis and ensuring adequacy of documents attached before onward transmission to Geneva

Perform control checks on monthly reports for cluster and country delegation before monthly closure is done

Being the go-between person between Geneva and field offices in Africa on all finance related matters – all issues from the field touching on finance must be dealt with by the finance analyst before onward processing to Geneva

Coordinate the annual budgeting process for cluster and country offices before final consolidation and submission to Geneva. This includes coordinating the quarterly revisions before approval by the Secretary Genera...