Finance Specialist

Who are we?

DRC has been responding to various humanitarian crises in Lebanon since 2004, working with Palestinian, Iraqi and Syrian refugees. DRC received registration from the Ministry of Interior in 2011, and since then has focused primarily on responding to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon and the resulting impact on Lebanese host community. DRC Lebanon’s focus is to ensure that we are able to respond to critical emerging humanitarian needs whilst improve the living conditions of displacement-affected populations and contribute to the achievement of durable solutions. With an annual portfolio of $12million, and with approximately 200+ staff, DRC is focusing its response in protection and economic recovery (Ec-Rec) sector in Bekka, North Lebanon and Beirut. DRC is also contributing to the evidence base and coordination structures in country through our Evidence Generation and referral information management (RIMs) teams.

About the job

This role has a country focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines within the country. The role contributes to the development of country strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. The role provides support and/or technical guidance to country operations while overseeing country activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Finance Management of the Mission

• Being consulted in drafting Financial SOPs

• Responsible of maintaining and updating Allocation Table & Master Budget

• Support in updating Master Budget in Dynamics

• Participate in partnership strategy, being responsible of partners due diligence process/ capacity building plan/ regular meeting with IP

• Responsible to develop and maintain a Matrix including all partners process and SoPs when it comes to NSSF/ Income tax/ Exchange Rate/ VAT

• Project Financial Follow Up

• Being consulted to prepare Budget proposal or amendment in collaboration with Grant/ Program

• Responsible to parameter new projects in Dynamics and update budget forecast yearly

• Support in updating and sharing BFUs with budget holders & Finance staff

• Responsible to review the Accountancy & Allocation per project

• Responsible of adjusting transaction with wrong allocation in the system

• Responsible of reviewing committed cost and pending transactions

• Support finance manager in organizing meeting for detailed review of BFUs

• Responsible of identifying Cofunding and update Dynamics accordingly

• Support finance manager in preparing and submit Financial Report

• Responsible of Audit Facilitation, Support in Audit Preparation, and responsible of Audit Report Findings follow up

• Responsible of updating the Symbiant tracker with audit reports

• Responsible of creating and updating a unified partner tracker for all offices

• Responsible of receiving and reviewing Financial Report/Financial Docs from Implementing Partners

• Responsible of conducting spot check on Financial Report/Financial Docs from Implementing Partners

• Responsible of ensuring a timely process of instalment for Implementing Partners

• Responsible of registering Partners expenses and to conduct Partners reconciliation

• Responsible of WIP File and Donor reconciliation

• Responsible of providing allocation for DRC colleagues

• ACCOUNTANCY

• Responsible of registering and posting expenses and general journals (partners expenses)

• Being consulted in the monthly Resource Scheduling

• Support in generating timesheets in Dynamics

• Support in uploading Salaries in the system and doing Run distribution

• Support in Settling the Unsettled salaries (after Run distribution)

• Support in reconciling Ledger accounts

• Responsible of fixing in the system monthly special Exchange rate

• Responsible of updating loss tracker

• Responsible of archiving partners documents in the share point

About you

Experience and technical competencies:

• Minimum (3) years relevant work experience in similar field.
• Good communication skills
• Advanced proficiency in Excel

Education

• Master’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance

Languages

• Advanced proficiency in English
• Fluency in Arabic

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’s five core competencies:

• Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.
• Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.
• Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.
• Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.
• Demonstrating integrity: Upholding and promoting the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to DRC’s values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer

Contract length: (7) Months – Until end of June 2025

Start date: December 1st, 2024

Duty station: Beirut, Lebanon

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for Nationals. This position will be placed at Non-Management (G2) band.