Senior Contracts Finance Manager (12 months leave cover) – UK or NL

Location: UK or NL – Versatile working

Place Standing: Full time, short-term

Length: 12 months go away cowl

Wage: The beginning wage vary for this place within the UK is annual 53,360 GBP; in NL is annual 63,040 Euro

Deadline: Please submit utility and canopy letter by April twenty sixth

Present unrestricted work authorization in UK or NL is required on the time of utility for this place.

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is powered by the idea that a greater world is feasible. To do that, we all know our groups do their greatest work when they’re various and each workforce member feels that they belong. We welcome various backgrounds, views, and abilities in order that we may be stronger and have long run impression.

Division / Workforce Abstract

Mercy Corps Europe has adopted an formidable progress technique that seeks to construct extra strategic partnerships with bilateral and multilateral donor businesses to extend our earnings, affect, and programmatic impression. Because the organisation expands, we’re exploring new partnerships and funding alternatives, and industrial contracts are certainly one of these areas of focus.

The Senior Contracts Finance Supervisor (SCFM) sits throughout the Worldwide Finance workforce. The Worldwide Finance (IF) workforce performs a key position in supporting monetary operations in Mercy Corps’ nation programmes all through the world by working collaboratively with nation finance employees and offering steering in budgeting, accounting and different monetary features in accordance with Mercy Corps’ inner insurance policies and procedures in addition to donor laws. The division additionally works intently and collaboratively with regional programme workforce members in help of nation programme goals.

Place Abstract

The Senior Contracts Finance Supervisor (SCFM) is answerable for Mercy Corps’ monetary administration oversight of economic contracts. It will embrace involvement in pre-positioning efforts, supporting the bid improvement course of and start-up actions throughout inception phases, in addition to ongoing contract implementation help. He/she’s going to work with colleagues within the Programmes, Compliance and New Initiatives groups, in addition to with in-country groups. He/she may even be answerable for growing instruments, steering and institutional data on industrial contract bid improvement and the monetary administration processes of such bids. The position will embrace conducting monetary due diligence on these alternatives (and potential companions), and assessing industrial viability and danger on a case-by-case foundation.

Important Tasks

STRATEGIC BID DEVELOPMENT

• Lead on new enterprise bid pre-positioning from finance perspective, together with attendance at information-sharing conferences on potential alternatives, and participation in any Due Diligence of Lead Contractors or Subcontractors.
• Assist the Senior Contracts Supervisor and Bid Supervisor with discussions and early stage negotiations, main on monetary negotiations, to make sure that industrial dangers are managed via contracting phrases.
• The place acceptable, take part in and help bid improvement workshops, or consortia conferences – both face-to-face or via convention calls.
• Monitor new bids and help inner approval processes, together with preparation of money circulate, danger and competitiveness evaluation.
• Lead on growing Business Tenders, together with help on improvement of inner finances, in addition to translation into industrial format with charge charges, working with related groups to make sure all bids are each aggressive and commercially viable.
• Lead on finance sections of economic narrative together with monetary plans, monetary methodologies and worth for cash.

CONTRACT DELIVERY & MANAGEMENT

• Lead and oversee HQ finance help within the supply of contracts, specializing in correct monetary reporting and monitoring with the goal of sustaining a powerful monetary and industrial place. Assist nation groups to make sure invoicing and cost processes are efficient and well timed.
• Enter into and take part in contracts portfolio evaluate conferences, main on finance subjects and presenting key metrics.
• Undertake visits to our nation groups as essential to help contract pre-positioning efforts and donor engagement.
• The place companions are unfamiliar with Business Contracts, present orientation, help and steering on invoicing processes & necessities, reporting, finances templates and due diligence subjects.

TEAM MANAGEMENT

• Handle, mentor and develop the contracts finance workforce members (Contracts Finance Analyst and Contracts Pricing Advisor).
• Monitor particular person efficiency, promote accountability, talk expectations and supply constructive suggestions through common efficiency evaluations.

Supervisory Accountability

This position is answerable for main the contracts finance workforce and can supervise two workforce members – Contracts Finance Analyst and Contracts Pricing Advisor.

Accountability

Reviews Straight To: Director of Worldwide Finance, Europe

Works Straight With: International help features resembling Programmes, Compliance, New Initiatives & Finance in addition to Mercy Corps’ counterparts primarily based in our nation workplaces.

Accountability to Members and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps workforce members are anticipated to help all efforts towards accountability, particularly to our program individuals, group companions, different stakeholders, and to worldwide requirements guiding worldwide reduction and improvement work. We’re dedicated to actively participating communities as equal companions within the design, monitoring and analysis of our subject initiatives.

Minimal {Qualifications} & Transferable Abilities

● 5+ years of related skilled expertise working with cross-functional groups to realize commercially aggressive proposals and profitable administration of the implementation of contracts.

● Intensive industrial acumen with an in depth understanding of setting up contract charge charges, in addition to monetary modelling of revenue and loss evaluation, money circulate and NPV forecasting, planning, budgeting, and administration reporting.

● Wonderful communication abilities, each verbal and written enterprise English, and powerful stakeholder administration with the power to speak successfully and clearly to employees in several features and roles throughout the company.

● Intensive expertise in growing finances and industrial tender submissions for European institutional donors.

● Sturdy negotiation abilities and the power to successfully navigate via complicated contract points, providing advice and options.

● Expertise main a workforce with confirmed potential to speak, delegate, and develop workforce members.

● Proficiency with MS Workplace software program required (Outlook, Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint) – with a sophisticated proficiency in Excel most popular.

● Expertise of computerised accountancy packages is required.

● Certified Accountant is fascinating.

● Expertise in humanitarian or improvement support sector is fascinating.

Success Components

The profitable candidate will show clear empathy with organisations goals and values. They are going to be extremely analytical and have consideration to element. They may be capable to construct efficient and lasting relationships with colleagues and companions and can be capable to inspire others whereas main with vitality. They are going to be sturdy in negotiating options. They may have glorious organisational, planning and time administration abilities, shall be a self-starter and capable of work each independently and as a part of a workforce. They may be capable to prioritise in a fast-changing surroundings whereas working properly beneath strain. They’ve willingness and talent to journey internationally as required.

Dwelling Situations / Environmental Situations

The place relies within the UK or Netherlands and it requires as much as 20% journey to help nation packages, which can embrace journey to insecure places the place freedom of motion is restricted and areas the place facilities are restricted. Housing for this position is in particular person housing and employees could have entry to good medical providers and the residing state of affairs is of a excessive normal.

Ongoing Studying

In help of our perception that studying organizations are simpler, environment friendly and related to the communities we serve, we empower all workforce members to dedicate 5% of their time to studying actions that additional their private and/or skilled progress and improvement.

Equal Employment Alternative

Mercy Corps is an equal alternative employer that doesn’t tolerate discrimination on any foundation. We actively search out various backgrounds, views, and abilities in order that we may be collectively stronger and have sustained international impression.

We’re dedicated to offering an surroundings of respect and psychological security the place equal employment alternatives can be found to all. We don’t interact in or tolerate discrimination on the idea of race, coloration, gender identification, gender expression, faith, age, sexual orientation, nationwide or ethnic origin, incapacity (together with HIV/AIDS standing), marital standing, army veteran standing or some other protected group within the places the place we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is dedicated to making sure that every one people we come into contact with via our work, whether or not workforce members, group members, program individuals or others, are handled with respect and dignity. We’re dedicated to the core ideas relating to prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary Common and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. We is not going to tolerate baby abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our workforce members. As a part of our dedication to a protected and inclusive work surroundings, workforce members are anticipated to conduct themselves in an expert method, respect native legal guidelines and customs, and to stick to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values always.

Range, Fairness & Inclusion

Attaining our mission begins with how we construct our workforce and work collectively. Via our dedication to enriching our group with folks of various origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and methods of pondering, we’re higher capable of leverage the collective energy of our groups and resolve the world’s most complicated challenges. We try for a tradition of belief and respect, the place everybody contributes their views and genuine selves, reaches their potential as people and groups, and collaborates to do the perfect work of their lives.