Country Finance Manager - Sudan

Country: Sudan Organization: Humanity & Inclusion Closing date: 21 Aug 2026 • Place: Khartoum - Sudan • Starting date: 01st September 2026 • Duration of contract: 6 months • Closing date for applications: 21st August 2026 Humanity & Inclusion (HI) is an independent and impartial aid organization working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. The organization works alongside people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, taking action and bearing witness in order to respond to their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights. Since its creation in 1982, HI has run development & humanitarian projects in more than 55 countries and responded to numerous emergencies. Today, we have a budget of approximately 200 million euros, with 4,000 employees worldwide At HI, we truly believe in the importance of inclusion and diversity within our organization. This is why we are engaged to a disability policy to encourage the inclusion and integration of people with disabilities. Please indicate if you require any special accommodation, even at the first interview. To know more, about the organization, click here. JOB CONTEXT: Since January 2024, HI has been responding to Sudan’s crisis. HI’s joint multisectoral response in Gedaref State, implemented with a Sudanese partner Non-governmental organization (NGO), is already providing physical and functional rehabilitation services in healthcare centers and at community level, as well as Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) services, including individual and group counselling. HI is further engaged at the humanitarian coordination level to mainstream disability inclusion throughout the humanitarian response. HI is scaling up its response from both geographic and modalities/sectorial perspectives. In particular, HI has deployed emergency response teams in Darfur, to setup its operations and initiate its response in the western parts of Sudan. HI team is present in Darfur since December 2024, implementing inclusive humanitarian action, and basic needs activities (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Food security). HI team is also active in other sectors such as Functional and Physical rehabilitation, and mutualized logistics. The advertised vacancy is to be part of that team. The situation in Khartoum is relatively calm. The city has been destroyed by the ongoing conflict and most authorities, NGOs and agencies are in the process of reopening their offices in Khartoum. MAIN MISSION: The Finance Manager is responsible for leading the finance teams, ensuring compliance with HI’s standards and local rules in the finance field, financial strategy and steering and operational financial management within her or his area of responsibility. RESPONSABILITIES: Strategy and steering • Contributes towards the drafting, revision and implementation of the financial section of Operational Strategy (StratOp) within her or his area of responsibility area and in line with HI’s financial policies. • Oversees the breakdown of financial strategy into action plans and advises on financial issues. • Produces, compiles and analyses financial indicators and, if necessary, creates additional indicators. • Is in charge of the assessment, mitigation and treatment of financial risks and disputes. • Reports on financial incidents and risks and their treatment to her or his line manager and functional managers. • Oversees HI external representation activities related to financial issues, takes part in inter-NGO working groups and ensures the development of partnerships in her or his geographical area. • Leads the financial capacity assessment of local partners and the resulting capacity building plans. Standards and expertise • Oversees the deployment and monitors compliance with all of HI’s financial policies, processes and tools within her or his area of responsibility and, if necessary, develops specific financial tools overseen by her or his line and functional management. • Directs and controls HI's compliance with the legal framework of the country or countries of intervention and monitors changes in standards and case law and in the practices of other stakeholders working in the finance field. • Ensures the production and filing of financial documents ensuring the legality of HI's operations in the country or countries of intervention. • Ensures implementation of and compliance with procedure for archiving financial documents and the publication and updating of financial documents in the dedicated workspaces. • Suggests improvements to process and tools within its area of responsibility if necessary. Internal control • Identifies risks and contributes to risk mapping within its area of responsibility. • Checks compliance with process in force and the quality of first-level controls. • Ensures the effectiveness of risk management and internal control systems. • Ensures that the internal control standards defined by the organisation are applied, by carrying out spot checks. • Ensures the implementation of recommendations and the remediation of identified non-compliances and internal control weaknesses. • Implements indicators/KPIs and dashboards relating to risk management and internal control within its area of responsibility. • Reinforces the rules of internal control according to the context of intervention. Operational implementation • Ensures financial and budget management • Supervises the drafting of budgets and verifies that HI’s funds are being used in an optimal manner in her or his area of responsibility. • Analyses and optimises the funding structure, identifies and anticipates drift risks. • Ensures the accuracy and updating of financial information and coordinates the process of reporting and compiling financial information in accordance with the financial calendar. • Produces the summary notes necessary for financial management and identifies risks. Supports budget holders with their financial steering. • Analyses the financial aspects of partnership agreements and checks the accuracy and conformity of partners’ accounts and documentation before payment. • Ensures accounts management. • Is the focal person on accounting issues. • Ensures the accuracy and updating of accounts information and coordinates the process of reporting and compiling accounts information in accordance with the financial calendar. • Directs the development of all accounting processes under her or his responsibility, ensuring their compliance with the accounting reference framework (procedures, tools) and their incorporation into of the accounting information system (IS). • Consolidates, checks and validates all entries and documents for the monthly and annual closing of accounts, in particular bank reconciliations, justification of payable and receivable accounts and monitoring of fixed assets. • Ensures that applications for Value Added Tax (VAT) exemptions are filed and checks the declarations submitted to the authorities. • Represents HI externally with the Statutory Auditors and/or the authorities in charge of accounting and tax matters. • Ensures implementation of and compliance with procedure for archiving supporting documents, in particular by ensuring the quality of paper and digital supporting documents, and sends supporting documents (paper and digital format) to their final storage locations. • Provides the supporting documents asked for by internal or external auditors. • Ensures the financial management of institutional funding in compliance with “donor" guidelines and contractual obligations. • Directs the drafting of funding proposals for institutional donors and the construction of funding schedules. • Supervises and accompanies the drafting of funding proposals and optimises the funding schedules (coverage of office and support costs); compiles and coordinates multi-programme proposals when the programme is the lead. • Examines, alerts to and even negotiates the conditions of funding agreements before they are signed (payment dates and methods and financial reports, methods of justification of expenditure, exchange rates, audits , etc.). • Ensures that these obligations are realistic and compatible with HI procedures. • Controls the monitoring of expenditure against funding and reports to the budget holders. Monitors consumption rates, issues alerts in the event of a risk of noncompliance with the flexibility rules and anticipates slippage by preparing contractual amendments with her or his interlocutors. • Ensures that checks on financial expenditure carried out by partners are conducted in compliance with the HI and donor framework, and that checks of the accuracy and compliance of the partner’s accounts and documentation are carried out before paying or clearing the advance to the partner. • Supervises and coordinates the production and quality of financial reports for donors by checking compliance with donor guidelines. • Ensures consistency between donor GL data and financial report data. Where applicable, ensures that analytical modifications are entered and/or budget modifications are integrated into the Financial Information System (SIF) and traces all extra-accounting entries. • Ensures that donor payments are made or reminders sent and that line and functional managers are informed of delays in payments. • Archives budgets and financial reports shared with donors (with internal and external versions) in the dedicated space (or ensures that they are archived). • Ensures that information concerning donor contracts is entered in the FIS: donor budgets, cost-accounting and budget modifications, schedules, reports, etc. • Identifies and shares administrative documents intended for donors (due diligence). • Coordinates responses to requests from internal and external auditors and ensures the successful conclusion of audits, defining any corrective actions to be implemented. • Ensures cash-flow management. • Is the focal person on cash-flow issues. • Examines, formalises and optimises requests for funds in order to ensure the availability of cash in cash boxes and bank accounts and meet the financial needs of the mission. • Ensures the provisioning of cash boxes, contributes to bank reconciliation operations, carries out cash box/safe inventories under its responsibility. • Provides any documents relating to cash management requested by internal and external auditors, as well as the documents required to meet banking compliance requirements within her or his area of responsibility. • Evaluates and provides means of payment adapted to the needs of the mission and ensures compliance with payment rules according to the defined thresholds. • Oversees procedure for the security and storage of funds, including security thresholds, and proposes adaptations to the context if necessary. • Ensures the completion of requests to open or close bank accounts on behalf of the organisation according to operational needs and the updating of bank signatories. • Identifies exchange rate risks and puts measures in place to mitigate these risks. Profession facilitation • Puts in place and monitors the elements of her or his profession that fall within her or his area of responsibility: dissemination, use and contribution to revisions of standards, monitoring of recommendations for the skills development of the teams, etc. • Coordinates profession facilitation in her or his area of responsibility, fosters a team spirit and ensures the inclusion of all team members by encouraging regular contributions, especially through practice-sharing. • Develops a pool of local talent. • Provides briefings and debriefings on financial aspects for the people working within its area of responsibility. • Participates in the training of peers. • Participates in the recruitment and organises the induction of new team members. • Ensures continuity of service within the area of responsibility of her or his team (may be required to organise a replacement or to replace a member of her or his team). Emergency preparedness and response • Leads the emergency preparedness actions in her or his department and, in case of emergency, reorganizes the priorities of her or his team according to the humanitarian imperative, in order to ensure HI’s quick and efficient response. Requirements • At least 5 years of professional experience in finance domain • At least 3 years of experience in management of multi sectorial large grant spread across multiple basis • Strong team management and organizational skills required • High level of autonomy and initiative required • Strong interpersonal and intercultural skills required • Strong computer skills (use of MS Word, Excel, Outlook and other relevant software) required • Ability to work under high pressure required • High level of motivation and proactivity • Fluency in oral and written English is compulsory • Arabic skills are a strong asset • Solid experience in capacity building of local staff, department restructuring will be considered a strong asset. Benefits At HI, the conditions offered are up to your commitment and adapted to the context of your mission: Join the team • 6 months International contract (renewable upon fundings) • Starting early September 2026 based in Khartoum • The international contract provides social cover adapted to your situation: Unemployment insurance benefits for EU nationals; Pension scheme Medical coverage with 50% of employee contribution Repatriation insurance paid by HI • Salary from 2869€ gross/month upon experience • Perdiem: 706 € net/month - paid in the field • Hardship: 500 € net/month paid with your salary • Paid leaves: 25 days per year • R&R: 5 days every 8 weeks • Position: Unaccompanied • Housing: Collective taken in charge by HI • If you are resident in the country: local package How to apply Please send your CV and application letter via this link