Financial Professional with Emergency Response Experience

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Genf, Genf, Schweiz cinfo Vollzeit
Company Overview
Médecins Sans Frontières is an independent, international medical and humanitarian organization that provides care to people in need, without discrimination and without regard to race, religion, creed or political affiliation (MSF Charter).

The MSF movement is built around 5 operational centers supported by 24 sections and offices worldwide. MSF Operational Center Geneva (MSF OCG) is one of these centers.

We are committed to creating a workplace where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together to advance MSF's social mission and create better outcomes for our patients and the communities we work with.

Salary
Gross annual salary: from CHF 101'172 to CHF 115'332.- (commensurate with experience and internal salary grid).

Job Description
We are seeking a Financial Controller to play a pivotal role between finance and operations and be the contact person in the operational unit (cell) for financial management issues. Beyond technical skills, extensive experience and understanding of operations are essential for operational management.

The Financial Controller will provide support and supervision necessary to achieve the operational strategy as a member of both the operational unit and the finance department, reporting to the Programmes Responsible (RP) and Head of the Operational Finance who is their technical responsible.

Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the definition of the operational objectives and strategy by ensuring budgets are realistic and respect financial constraints, supervising the budgetary process throughout the planning cycle.
- Oversee mission management with regards to the relevance and effectiveness of the financial means allocated, follow commitments and control expenses vs approved budgets, analyze costs.
- Provide technical support to the missions in terms of financial and administrative management, anticipate financial risks and problems that missions may have to deal with.
- Ensure the implementation of financial policies and procedures concerning financial management as defined by headquarters, vouch for adherence to the basic rules and quality standards. Propose adjustments of the said procedures to emergency contexts when necessary.
- Be in contact with other sections operational of MSF to share local and regional information as well as best practices.
- Be responsible for the proper management of grants and for the quality of financial documents and reports submitted to donors.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
- University degree (graduate level), preferably in business administration / finance.
- At least 2 years recent experience as finance coordinator with MSF.
- Proven experience working in emergency response interventions.
- Experience in management, coaching.
- Experience of institutional donors grant management, especially multi-donors co-funding.
- Strong interpersonal, written and oral communications skills in English.
- French a strong asset.
- Excellent knowledge of Excel, very comfortable with numbers and financial analysis.
- Capacity to manage in parallel various interlocutors (Finance Coordinators from various missions) and multiple contexts, legal frames and ways of working.
- Excellent analytical and reporting skills.
- Good practice of a field accounting package and ERP (preferably UNIFIELD).

Benefits:
- Open-ended contract (100%) of three years, renewable once i.e. a maximum of 6 years.
- Based in Geneva, with several visits to the field each year.
- Paid vacation: 25 days per year, prorate temporis, plus any Swiss public holidays falling within the contract period.
- Pension plan: pension contribution covered 3/4 by MSF, 1/4 by staff member.
- Relocation package if moving from a different country to Switzerland.

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