Oficial de Finanzas ERD

The Oficial de Finanzas ERD ensures comprehensive financial control of the Cash Programming cycle in ERD operations, guaranteeing proper execution of transfers, fund reconciliation, and documentation traceability, as well as operational management of the Financial Service Provider (PSF), adhering to IRC policies, donor guidelines, and audit standards.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate financial planning of cash distributions with ERD Program Manager and Program Lead, including defining distribution schedules from a financial perspective.
• Validate fund availability and anticipate liquidity needs for scheduled distributions; timely notify funding requirements to supervision and Senior Finance Coordination.
• Supervise fund flow and liquidity at payment points, reporting deficiencies in advance.
• Manage financial processes operated through Cash platforms (Ban Rural, Sí Vale, others), ensuring correct execution, control, and monitoring of all operations: cards, disbursements, recharges, and replacements.
• Validate beneficiary lists, authorized amounts, and distribution batches are correctly configured in platforms prior to fund disbursement, ensuring alignment with approved budget and available funds.
• Maintain control and reconciliation of card inventory (stock, disbursed, and delivered).
• Verify PSF payment points in intervention municipalities operate according to SOW standards; implement backup payment mechanisms in case of provider failure.
• Manage operational relationship with the Financial Service Provider (PSF), including monitoring Scope of Work (SOW), implementing operational verification clauses, and resolving contractual incidents.
• Represent IRC in operational and contractual discussions with PSF when necessary.
• Coordinate with Senior Supply Chain Officer on procurement and logistics contracts for the project.
• Ensure correct distribution and traceability of Cash funds; periodically reconcile accounting accounts related to Cash, ensuring record accuracy.
• Perform periodic reconciliations between transferred, disbursed, and delivered funds, as well as card balances and stock.
• Monitor and alert on possible exchange rate differences arising from Cash operations.
• Ensure proper integration and safekeeping of delivery supports for cards, disbursements, fund acquisitions, and reconciliations; maintain complete, traceable, and auditable financial files for each distribution.
• Timely notify and follow up on any incident, irregularity, risk, or deviation, in continuous coordination with Finance, Operations, and Programs teams.
• Contribute to final project report and documentation of lessons learned.
• Provide continuous support to the program team to ensure Cash processes are executed according to internal and external guidelines; serve as financial reference point in the field during distributions when required.
• Coordinate technically with Security and Logistics areas for operational planning and implementation of the CVA program, ensuring distributions occur under appropriate conditions.
• Participate in coordination meetings with project focal points in operational zones of the department.
• Analyze the Cash dispersion cycle and implement improvements in operational and financial processes, both in the field and administratively, optimizing comprehensive management of distributions.
• Provide feedback and continuous training to the team in charge.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Administration or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of proven experience in financial and accounting processes in audit-subject environments, preferably in cash transfer programs (CVA/Cash) or international organization projects.
• Preferably experience in operational management of financial or payment service providers (PSF/FSP), including contractual follow-up and incident resolution.
• Analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to identify and solve problems from a financial perspective, including analysis of cash dispersion cycles and process improvement proposals.
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams, manage multiple priorities simultaneously, and meet deadlines in high-pressure operational environments.
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, reconciliations, financial formulas). Desirable: experience with accounting ERP systems (preferably Integra) and visualization tools like Power BI.
• Availability to travel periodically to project intervention zones.
• Intermediate English desirable.

Skills

• Financial Accounting
• Audit Compliance
• Cash Transfer Programmes
• Financial Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Operational Financial Management
• Contractual Follow-up
• Incident Resolution
• Excel
• Pivot Tables
• Financial Reconciliation
• Financial Formulas
• Accounting ERP Systems
• Power BI
• Fund Reconciliation
• Documentation Traceability
• Financial Control
• Cash Dispersion Analysis

Languages

Spanish, English