About this role
Role Overview
- Manage project risks with escalation as required.
- Manage accounting and financial processes at Imagine Global level.
- Manage relationship between Imagine and BDO.
- Oversee the Imagine annual audit.
- Establish and manage systems for EFT payments to scale countries and Imagine Global staff including expense claims.
- Assist with the implementation of the grants management system in the scale countries.
- Assist with the system change from Quick-Books to Sage Intacct.
- Assist with strategic financial management activities including annual budget development, financial planning and analysis, cash flow management, and financial reporting at Imagine Global.
- Assist in the development of project-level financial management policies and procedures, manage roll-out and oversight compliance, reporting and periodic review.
- Provide expert guidance in the costing of activities and operations.
- Organise and maintain comprehensive financial files and documents to ensure all recording is compliant with audit, corporate and client requirements.
- Support senior management to establish and implement policies and procedures for fraud control, anti-corruption and anti-bribery.
- Lead monthly financial reviews with scale country finance teams to assess performance against budgets and identify corrective actions.
- Strengthen internal controls by reviewing segregation of duties, approval matrices, and delegation of authority frameworks across countries.
- Coordinate donor financial reporting timelines, ensuring consistency between programmatic and financial reports.
- Oversee balance sheet integrity, including regular review of reconciliations, accruals, and prepayments at global and country level.
- Support capacity building of scale country finance teams through training, coaching, and standardised financial tools and templates.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or equivalent discipline.
- Registered with CA, CA(SA), CIMA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualifications.
- 5+ years’ experience with accounting and financial management of large and/or growing organisations.
- 2+ years’ experience with International NGOs
- Additional work experience is welcome.
Benefits
- Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience