Country Office Management Accountant

The Management Accountant is responsible for providing high-quality financial management, compliance oversight, financial analysis, and business partnering support to ensure effective stewardship of donor and organizational resources. The role leads financial monitoring, budgeting, forecasting, cost recovery, statutory compliance, partner financial management, and reporting processes while ensuring adherence to Plan International policies, donor regulations, and local statutory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality financial management, compliance oversight, financial analysis, and business partnering support.
• Lead financial monitoring, budgeting, forecasting, cost recovery, statutory compliance, partner financial management, and reporting processes.
• Ensure adherence to Plan International policies, donor regulations, and local statutory requirements.
• Support strategic decision-making through timely financial analysis, risk assessment, and performance reporting.
• Strengthen internal controls, financial systems, and partner financial capacity.
• Safeguard organizational assets, promote accountability, and ensure efficient utilization of resources.
• Provide financial oversight and support to implementing partners ensuring compliance with donor requirements, partnership agreements, Plan policies, and Government of Tanzania regulations.
• Manage multi-donor funded projects including budgeting, expenditure monitoring, cost recovery, and financial reporting.
• Strengthen financial controls, risk management practices, and compliance frameworks across Country Office operations and partner organizations.
• Lead or support partner financial capacity assessments, financial monitoring visits, audit preparation, and implementation of corrective action plans.
• Coordinate month-end and year-end financial closure processes, balance sheet reconciliations, payroll accounting, intercompany transactions, and statutory compliance activities.
• Support data-driven decision-making through financial analysis, budget variance analysis, forecasting, and development of management reports and dashboards.
• Maintain strong working relationships with donors, auditors, government authorities, National Offices, and implementing partners on finance and compliance-related matters.
• Contribute to organizational effectiveness through continuous improvement of financial systems, procedures, controls, and reporting processes.
• Travel regularly to project locations and partner offices for monitoring, capacity building, compliance reviews, and financial verification exercises.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent qualification
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with strong NGO and grant management exposure.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills appropriate to the audience
• Proficient Computer skills and use of relevant accounting packages
• Advanced Excel and Power BI/reporting skills
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Ability to work under harsh condition (desirable)
• Ability to work under multidisciplinary and multicultural environment (desirable)
• Good English language skills (oral /written) (desirable)
• Hardworking with capacity to work independently with minimum supervision (desirable)
• Honest, integrity, open and transparent personality (desirable)
• Team player (desirable)
• Working towards achieving a team goal (desirable)
• Be able to Respect all groups of people in the community and culturally sensitive (desirable)
• Persuasive and able to work with different cultural settings (desirable)
• Motivated, energetic and strives to develop and support others (desirable)
• Result oriented (desirable)
• Working for the best interest of the organization and children (desirable)
• Appreciate of child rights and gender (desirable)

Skills

• Accounting
• Finance Management
• Grant Management
• Financial Analysis
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Cost Recovery
• Statutory Compliance
• Partner Financial Management
• Financial Reporting
• Excel
• Power BI
• Accounting packages
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Partnering
• NGO Finance

Languages

English