International Finance Manager – Yemen

Location: Aden, Yemen with frequent travel to other HALO locations in Yemen

Full Time, Permanent

Salary – Competitive, dependent upon experience

Job Purpose: To support Programme Manager by leading the management of all financial planning, processes, and risks across all programming through effective, efficient delivery of standard financial operating procedures and local finance teams’ training/capacity building.

About the Role

The International Finance Manager (IFM) is a senior management team member with a key role in the programme’s finance department. Their responsibilities include ensuring that the daily, monthly, and annual financial duties comply with HALO’s policies, donor contracts, and national finance and tax regulations. They also provide strategic leadership to the finance team and develop business plans, budgets, and strategies to support the programme’s funding and overarching strategy.

The IFM is responsible for managing the finance team, building the capacity of individual team members, and ensuring the overall structure of the department, which provides robust and timely support to the programme’s activities. They are to lead their team, and alongside the other senior management team members, they are to inspire, motivate and manage the programme. The IFM is responsible for ensuring that the proper procurement and accounting systems are in place, monitored and improved as necessary and that the finance team is resourced appropriately.

The IFM is responsible for promptly meeting deadlines for internal and external reporting and proposals. Alongside the Programme Manager, the IFM is responsible for short—and long-term financial planning to support the programme and successfully deliver donor contracts on budget.

The IFM reports directly to the Yemen Programme Manager.

Role and Responsibilities

Financial planning and monitoring

• Support the Programme Manager in formulating and monitoring Yemen financial plans, including associated funding and cost assumptions.
• Collaboratively produce grant/contract budgets utilising HALO’s financial planning system (Adaptive Insights) per HALO budget preparation guidelines.
• Lead the financial monitoring and review of grants/contracts, working closely with operations to forecast and report on contract costs to completion/spend out plans.
• Support the programme and project managers in identifying and managing financial risks in the programme and escalating and addressing any emerging risks.

Accounting and Financial Control

• Ensure the implementation of HALO financial standard operating procedures across all locations, training local finance members to deliver all policies and procedures.
• Oversee the monthly financial close process, ensuring the country’s financial ledgers are closed within HALO deadlines.
• Ensure that costs are allocated to grants/contracts per the cost allocation policy, identifying and reporting any shortfalls in direct and indirect cost coverage.
• Prepare donor/client financial statements, reconciling to agreed budgets and financial ledger (Oracle NetSuite).
• Prepare country financial statements following local legislation.
• Oversee the financial management of delivery partner contracts, ensuring compliance with HALO’s contractual obligations.
• Supervise the production of the payroll cycle, ensuring donor funding allocations are accurate and that calculations for salary, income tax, social security, severance, and other government levies are in accordance with legislation.
• Support the Programme Manager in ensuring compliance with all statutory legislation (e.g., tax, registration, labour law), including reviewing regulatory requirements in new operational territories.

Cash Management

• Ensure that adequate banking and cash provisions are in place, that HALO’s financial policies are followed, and that delegations of authority enable the programme to operate efficiently, particularly during periods of leave, etc.
• Manage the programme’s short-term cash flow requirements, liaising with HALO HQ to facilitate cash transfers. Manage the effects of exchange rate fluctuations between local and contract currencies.

External Audit

• Arrange for the external audit of locally prepared financial statements (statutory or donor), liaising with HQ finance to ensure compliance with HALO policies and procedures.

Staff Management and Development

• Ensure that the finance staffing capacity is fit for the programme’s needs.
• Develop national staff’s capacity and career development, ensuring financial consistency and quality across the programme. This role offers a unique opportunity for professional growth and the chance to make a significant impact in the field of international finance management.

All International staff are expected to undertake the following general duties:

• Work within the framework of HALO’s core values and standards.
• Ensure familiarity with and adhere to all HALO policies and procedures.
• Undertake a role in developing countries where standards of living may be basic.
• Undertake the role appropriately to the cultural context and within the local legal framework.

Requirements

Who we are looking for:

Essential Experience

• Previous financial management experience overseas
• Demonstrable experience in a financial management position
• Experience in managing and developing small teams

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Financial planning and reporting
• Good understanding of financial risk management in developing countries
• Ability to implement and monitor policies and procedures in challenging environments
• Proven ability to lead, manage, motivate and develop a team
• Interpretation and implementation of donor/client contract requirements
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to coordinate activities
• Excellent literacy, numeracy and IT skills, including data manipulation
• Ability and willingness to work strategically and undertake routine administrative tasks

Desirable

• Previous work experience in the Middle East
• Arabic language proficiency
• Experience in humanitarian mine action or wider aid sectors

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification or clearly demonstrable qualified experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary, dependent upon experience
• Local overseas allowance of $350 per month
• Private health insurance
• Shared accommodation in a rented HALO apartment, provided at nil cost
• 49 days annual leave increasing to 56 days after 2 years
• Three economy return flights to the member’s home address (or an alternative location up to an equivalent cost)
• Life assurance (3 x annual salary)
• Emergency medical insurance, including evacuation and repatriation.

Please submit a CV and a cover letter (no more than 1 page) in English outlining how your experience matches the key skills and competencies required by Thursday 15th May 2025.

If there is a sufficient calibre of applicants, we reserve the right to close the role earlier than the date noted.

The HALO Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

The HALO Trust is committed to a culture that is both diverse and inclusive and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

The HALO Trust is committed to ensuring that it provides a safe and trusted environment which safeguards and promotes the welfare and well-being of anyone who comes into contact with, or is part of, the Charity, with a zero-tolerance approach to behaviours which challenge this.

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