Finance Officer

About BRAC

BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organisation, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organisation of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity.

About the Programme

The MasterCard Foundation, in partnership with BRAC International (BI), is implementing an initiative that will create a positive and measurable impact for 1.2 million adolescent girls and young women and 9.5 million people across seven countries in East and West Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda. There is mounting urgency to support adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living in poverty, which has been further amplified by the global pandemic. Through this partnership, scalable economic development approaches will be delivered in communities to foster the agency and voice of AGYW. They will have the opportunity to fulfill their aspirations, achieve sustainable livelihoods, and engage in advocacy issues.

Position: Finance Officer

Job Location: Dar es Salaam, Country Office.

Purpose of this job: The purpose of this position is to lead in overseeing all financial and admin functions of the Company. Provide required leadership financial reporting, office administration work, procurement, and other logistics.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the financial operations of the organization and ensure timely and accurate financial reports and practices.
• Responsible for entering financial information and maintaining all financial records for projects and for the organization.
• Reviews field transactions done by the AIM area accountant.
• Support budget development and control of budget to ensure spending is as per approved donor balance
• Supporting project audit for both Internal, external and donor desk review
• Doing physical branches supervision and verification of program activities
• Provide financial inputs for proposal development, project management, Human Resource Management policies, logistics, travel and other areas of administration.
• Provide orientation and training to the organization staff on cost-effective management.
• Ensure all accounts policies and procedures of the organization are being followed/put into practice and organization control system have
• Ensure appropriate and sufficient documentation.
• Ensure financial transactions are following the donor and statutory requirements
• Ensuring timely and sufficient accountability of IOU by the employees
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the Supervisor.

Safeguarding Job Responsibilities

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the programmer’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Required Experience

• Experience in preparation of business plans for businesses and for non-profits
• Ability to conduct market assessment and produce reports
• At least 3 years of experience in procurement, administration, in providing logistical support to businesses and projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills in budget reparation and analysis, donor reporting and presentation.
• Comprehensive experience in producing financial reports
• CPA, ACCA is a requirement
• Holder of Bachelor Degree in Accounts, Finance, Economics or related courses.

Skills and Competencies

• Strategic thinker
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Communication and Interpersonal skills
• Integrity
• Leadership, organization and Management Skills
• Computer literacy.
• Time Management

Employment Type: Contractual

Salary: Negotiable

Application Instructions

Candidate needs to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at: bimcf.tanzania@brac.or.tz Please mention the name of the position in the subject bar. Only complete applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline: 24th April, 2025

BRAC is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share the same commitment.