Senior Finance Officer

Contract length: 1 year or continuous
Hours: Full-time
Location: Home-based

Travel: None

Reporting to: Chief Finance Officer

Salary range: 3,800-4,500 USD/month

Deadline for applications: April 4, 2022

CLEAR Global is an equal-opportunity employer, committed to having a diverse team where individuals of all backgrounds collaborate and learn from one another. We believe we can be most effective with diverse experience and expertise in our team. We recruit on merit, actively seek diverse applicant pools and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of disability, age, gender identity and expression, national origin, race and ethnicity, religious beliefs, marital or parental status, or sexual orientation, and welcome all types of diversity.

We offer in addition to salary:

• an innovative work environment with a diverse and passionate team,
• 20 days of annual leave and 10 days of floating holidays,
• the flexibility of home-based/remote work,
• accommodation and per diems when on deployment.

The role

The Senior Finance Officer will work with Finance Team colleagues to provide financial reports and support to budget holders, lead on the organization’s procurement and payment processes, and ensure timely and accurate accounting records and financial management information.

Responsibilities

Reporting and budgeting

• Work with teams to ensure accurate financial information, including timely budget vs actual report, forecasts, etc
• Ensure compliance with donor reporting requirements
• Support internal departments, including country offices (in Nigeria, DRC, and Bangladesh at the moment), to maintain financial records
• Prepare and review allocations vs budgets and program delivery
• Review financial reports with budget holders, supporting them to make informed decisions based on financial information.

General Accounting

• Ensure timely and accurate financial disbursements and up to date accounting ledgers, including preparing and uploading batch payments within our policies
• Preparation of journal entries to ensure accurate accruals-based management and financial reporting on a monthly basis
• Lead on the processing of payments and reconciliation of bank accounts; supporting the reconciliation of balance sheet items
• Lead on procurement processes, including invoicing and payments and support the revision of the procurement process.

Other responsibilities

• Assist in resolving financial related queries from team members, third parties and other stakeholders
• Assist with collecting and reporting financial information as required by other staff/donors/partners
• Training finance, program and other team members on processes related to finance and finance systems.
• Responsible for line managing and mentoring the Junior Finance Officer/Intern.

Please note that these roles and responsibilities are approximate and may change over time.

Qualifications

The Senior Finance Officer should be enthusiastic about helping people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. The right candidate is an energetic team player who agrees with CLEAR Global’s basic beliefs and values and who can work virtually with team members based throughout the world.

• Able to innovate to find creative solutions; willing to explore new technologies
• Comfortable with and eager to make best use of CLEAR Global’s online systems, including Expensify, Zahara, banking platforms and QuickBooks Online.
• Resourceful, able to get more out of small budgets
• Experienced finance professional
• Previous experience with nonprofit organizations, particularly in US registered not for profit
• Great communication skills
• Thorough and attention to detail

Requirements

• 5+ years finance experience
• Experience in accounting for grants
• Humanitarian or international development experience desired
• Advanced knowledge of QuickBooks Online or similar accounting packages
• Knowledge of expense management, purchase order, payment systems and Slack communication system
• Excellent Excel / google spreadsheet skills
• Professional accounting qualification desired

About CLEAR Global

CLEAR Global exists to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. We believe that everyone has the right to give and receive information in a language and format they understand. We work with nonprofit partners and a global community of language professionals to build local language translation capacity, and raise awareness of language barriers. Our network of over 80,000 community members translate millions of words of life-saving and life-changing information a year.

Core values

CLEAR Global employees and volunteers are people who believe passionately about the value of this work and take personal responsibility for achieving the mission. CLEAR Global’s mission and organizational spirit embody the core values established in its strategic framework:

• Excellence: As the leading voice for communicating humanitarian information in the right language, CLEAR Global is a leader in the translation industry and in the non-profit sector.
• Integrity: CLEAR Global believes that every person, whether it’s the people who we serve, our volunteers or our staff, has value, deserves respect and has inherent dignity.
• Empowerment: CLEAR Global believes in using language to empower people around the world to control their own development and destiny.
• Innovation: CLEAR Global recognizes and celebrates the power of innovation to address humanitarian and crisis issues around the world.
• Sustainability: CLEAR Global recognizes that meeting our mission necessitates establishment and maintenance of a solid financial and organizational infrastructure.
• Tolerance: Our staff and volunteers are highly knowledgeable and skilled; value each other, our partner and our recipients; create a supportive work environment; and, conduct themselves professionally at all times.

CLEAR Global may re-advertise the vacancy, cancel the recruitment, offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration at its discretion.