Controller ACAPS NORCAP

Context

NORCAP solves challenges in the humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding sectors to better protect vulnerable people’s lives and rights. We build partnerships, promote more effective ways of working and provide skilled experts to develop capacity.

We work with and through our partners to address challenges via three core activities:

• We develop partnerships with regional and global organisations and national stakeholders. We believe working together in a coordinated and sustainable manner is the best way to reduce needs, risks, and vulnerability over time.
• We seek and promote more effective ways of working at the global level and in the field. Our aim is not only to reduce needs, but also to create choice and opportunity for vulnerable people.
• We deploy skilled experts to develop our partner’s capacity. Given their independence from agendas and interests of the organisations they are deployed to, our experts are well placed to identify and address challenges, improve collaboration, and encourage new and innovative approaches.

ACAPS, a project hosted by NRC/NORCAP is dedicated to helping humanitarians make better decisions. We want to put evidence at the heart of decision-making. To achieve this, we collaborate with a variety of partners across the humanitarian sector and beyond. We strive to be an evolving platform providing:

• Independent analysis to support evidence-based decision-making for humanitarian operations.
• Deployment of experts to support assessments and analysis in crisis.
• Innovative approaches to collect more reliable and timely data and conduct rigorous analysis.
• Capacity development of humanitarian actors to carry out better needs assessments and analysis.

Are you an experienced Accounting and Finance professional with solid experience in financial accounting systems and procedures, looking to put your expertise into action to provide specific financial support to the NORCAP Finance Unit?

Please read on…

What you will do

Reporting to the Head of Finance NORCAP, you will be responsible for providing a range of financial support to ACAPS, including budgeting, reporting, cash flow, advising on financial management, and ensuring compliance with NRC policies and external regulations. In addition, you will also provide specific financial support to the NORCAP Finance Unit.

Some of your key tasks will include:

• Contribute to ensuring that financial reports and audit reports are submitted within the timeframes outlined in the partner agreements.
• Provide financial advice, guidance, and support in the development of new projects and applications.
• Contribute to strategic development in NORCAP and ACAPS.

What you will bring

• Minimum 3 years of experience as Finance Advisor/Expert/Controller or similar positions within the humanitarian field.
• Relevant academic background, including qualifications in a relevant field (e.g. accounting, MBA, or similar).
• Knowledge of financial accounting systems and procedures and related legal and regulatory contexts.
• Professional knowledge of Windows-based applications, especially Excel, Word, and business management systems (ERP), Unit4 is preferred.
• Knowledge of budgeting and financial reporting.
• Ability to provide financial management advice and guidance to colleagues, including undertaking internal checks and financial audits of projects.
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

We know that you are curious and would like to learn more about this role; please clickhere to access the full Job Description.

What makes this position attractive?

• A challenging and exciting opportunity with an international team dedicated to advocating for the rights of people forced to flee.
• A chance to provide specific financial support to the NORCAP Finance Unit;
• A Temporary position for 10 months (1st Nov. *2022 – 31st Aug *2023);**
• Salary and benefits according to NRC’s salary scale and terms and conditions in Oslo.

We are also looking for people who share our values:

• To be dedicated to what we do;
• To be innovative with our solutions;
• To act as one unified and inclusive team;
• To be accountable to the donors that make our work possible; the beneficiaries that we exist to serve; and to each other… the members of our NRC family.

We will be assessing candidates on an ongoing basis; therefore, early applications are recommended.

About Us

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.

NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.