Top level Finance director and Processes at Management Sciences for Health (MSH) in Abuja

Role summary

The Sr. Finance director and Processes (SDFO) will answer to the MSH Nigeria Country Delegate/Corporate head. As a member of the MSH Nigeria Senior management Team, the SDFO will play a broad and strategic executive function in MSH Nigeria’s entire plan for growth, development and ongoing success. The SDFO will also act as the head for finance & administrative support management for a possibility large scale health operational structures strengthening project, which is subject to the accessibility of financing.

Qualifications

• MSC in Business Management, Finance, Accounting or associated subject with a minimum of 15 years of applicable professional background, 20 years of progressive expertise in rising positions of duty, finance, procurement, agreements management, logistics and/or personnel-associated matters for international health and development initiatives in Nigeria. 
• An globally acknowledged specialist certification, e.g., Chartered Accounting officer (CA, ACA, ACCA) or Accredited Public Accounting officer (CPA), Accredited Finance analyst (CFA). With robust GAAP and status updates competencies coupled with robust logical and budgetary expertise. In-depth expertise in the evaluate and information exchange of financial outcomes, balance sheets, statements of cash flows, and possess the capability to build financial projections.
• Assured speaker of high-level strategic aspiration in addition to the description linked to variances against financial plans/projections to top level management and board of directors of Directors.
• Exhibited comprehension of improved business system applications and methods used to enhance performance.
• Thorough expertise in donor finance reporting, agreements management, grants under agreement and adherence qualifications. Expertise with government donors which includes US Government, EU, UNICEF, FCDO, the Worldwide Financial support, Gates Foundation, and other key associates is desirable.
• Effective guidance, training, management, organizing, logical and planning abilities exhibited by capability to operate both independently and within a team, evaluate key focuses, and oversee a range of initiatives with meticulousness. 
• Relentlessly strategic with the capability to convert these competencies into business strategies. Well-honed critical thinking competencies with the capability to be adaptable and flexible, and update and adjust as necessary.
• Accustomed to the ongoing evaluation of the sophisticated financial processes in the international community health management and development support sector to recognize efficiencies and avenues for advancement.
• Displays a track document of workflow optimization, alongside setting long-term financial targets.
• High levels of diplomacy, dispute management, team building, documented and spoken communication information exchange, and bargaining ability.  
• Unquestioned level of honesty and reliability, sensitivity and respect for changing work cultures in a worldwide company.
• Fluency in documented and spoken English, and exhibited capacity to productively convey and record, which includes the drafting excellent quality documentation and thorough evaluation of strategic information.