Position: Finance Manager
Department: Finance
Report to: Finance Director
Location: Somalia
Action Against Hunger leads the global movement to end hunger. We innovate solutions, advocate for change, and reach 28 million people every year with proven hunger prevention and treatment programs. As a nonprofit that works across 55 countries, our 8,990 dedicated staff members partner with communities to address the root causes of hunger, including climate change, conflict, inequity, and emergencies. We strive to create a world free from hunger, for everyone, for good.
Action Against Hunger USA is part of the Action Against Hunger International network. As an independent NGO, Action Against Hunger USA currently manages operations in 8 countries: Kenya, South Sudan, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Haiti.
Job Summary
The Finance Manager ECHO Regional Program provides overall financial leadership for the ECHO-funded regional program covering Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti. The role ensures effective financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, donor reporting, compliance, financial analysis, and risk management in line with donor requirements and Action Against Hunger policies. The position also oversees financial systems’ integrity within Sylogist Dynamics 365 and supports strategic decision-making through accurate financial insights.
Purpose
The purpose of the role is to ensure efficient, transparent, and compliant management of ECHO program funds by strengthening financial planning, reporting, and control systems. The position safeguards donor resources, enhances financial accountability, and supports effective program implementation through sound financial management and analysis
Engagement
The Finance Manager works closely with country finance teams in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, program and technical teams, regional and HQ finance departments, donors (ECHO), and audit teams. The role also engages with ERP/system support teams to ensure data accuracy and system effectiveness.
Delivery
Leads regional financial management by overseeing budgeting, forecasting, donor reporting, awards management, and financial analysis. Ensures strong compliance, internal controls, and accurate financial systems management in Sylogist Dynamics 365, while supporting audits, risk management, and capacity building across Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti finance teams.
Essential role responsibilities
1.Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Planning
- Lead preparation, consolidation, and monitoring of program budgets, forecasts, and financial plans.
- Coordinate Budget Follow-Up (BFU) meetings with program and support teams.
- Support proposal budget development, revisions, cost extensions, and no-cost extensions.
- Monitor budget utilization, burn rates, and pipeline projections.
- Ensure budget planning aligns with donor regulations and implementation plans.
- Develop and maintain budget tracking tools and Country Financial Plan (CFP) updates.
2.Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Prepare accurate and timely donor financial reports for ECHO and related awards.
- Ensure reconciliation between donor reports, BFUs, trial balances, and Sylogist Dynamics 365.
- Review financial transactions and validate coding accuracy.
- Provide monthly financial analysis and management reports.
- Monitor spending trends and identify financial risks or variances.
3.Awards Management and Donor Compliance
- Support full award cycle management from proposal stage to close-out.
- Ensure compliance with donor regulations, internal policies, and contractual obligations.
- Review financial documentation and supporting records for donor eligibility.
- Support donor audits, internal audits, and compliance reviews.
- Follow up implementation of audit recommendations and corrective action plans.
4.Financial Systems and ERP Management
- Support financial management through Sylogist Dynamics 365 ERP system.
- Ensure correct financial coding including initiatives, sectors, locations, and awards.
- Support system reconciliations and data quality improvements.
- Coordinate with HQ and regional teams on system corrections and improvements.
- Support extraction and analysis of financial data from Sylogist and related systems.
5.Internal Controls and Risk Management
- Ensure strong internal controls and compliance across all financial processes.
- Monitor bank reconciliations, accruals, advances, and balance sheet accounts.
- Support review and clearance of long outstanding balances.
- Identify financial risks and implement mitigation measures.
- Promote fraud prevention and compliance awareness within the finance team.
6.Capacity Building and Team Support
- Provide technical support and coaching to finance and non-finance staff.
- Conduct training on donor compliance, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Support country and field teams in strengthening financial management capacity.
- Contribute to development of finance SOPs, tools, templates, and guidance notes.
- Supervisory and Budget Responsibilities
- Provide technical supervision and support to finance staff supporting the ECHO regional program.
- Review financial deliverables and ensure quality and compliance.
- Support coordination between Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti finance teams.
Gender Equality Commitments
- Foster an environment that supports values of women and men, and equal access to information.
- Provide a work environment where women and men must be evaluated and promoted based on their skills and performance.
- Respect beneficiaries’ women, men, children (boys and girls) regardless of gender, sex orientation, disability, religion. race, color, ancestry, national origin, age, or marital status.
- Value and respect in all cultures.
- Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit for long periods and to concentrate on work, including typing, and turn out heavy volumes of work accurately, within short time frames under stressful situations in the context of a moderately noisy office with interruptions.
To travel to the field, the employee must attest to a level of physical fitness capable of enduring physically difficult, highly stressful situations which may include the necessity to walk long distances, to eat a limited diet and/or to reside in potentially uncomfortable housing or tents.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
III. Working Conditions, Travel and Environment
The duties of the job require regular attendance at least five days per week and occasional travel within Somalia and to Ethiopia and Djibouti if required
