Finance & Compliance Manager - Faith and Community Initiative (FCI)
On-siteFreetown, Western Area, Sierra Leone
Job Summary
Prepare country-level budgets, forecasts, and financial reports while reviewing expenditures, reconciliations, and journal entries to ensure accurate charging to budget lines. Manage cash flow, partner advances, and liquidation follow-up in coordination with the Country Project Manager and Global Finance team. Apply U.S. Government regulations, 2 CFR 200, and World Vision policies to review costs for allowability, allocability, and reasonableness before payment. Coordinate sub-grant management, including due diligence, risk assessments, and partner capacity strengthening for CHAs and FBOs. Support internal, external, and donor audits by organizing records and escalating compliance risks. Travel 25–40% of the time to partner offices and field sites for financial monitoring and coaching.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field
- Minimum 6–8 years of progressive experience in financial management, grants compliance, and subaward oversight for donor-funded programs
- Demonstrated practical knowledge of 2 CFR 200 award terms and conditions, cost allowability, procurement documentation, internal controls, subrecipient monitoring, audit readiness, and closeout
- Proficiency with accounting software and ERP systems
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience supporting grant and subrecipient closeout processes
- Experience coaching local partners and strengthening financial management and compliance capacity
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Proficiency in the national/local language(s)
- Experience with faith-based organizations and fragile or conflict-affected contexts
- Experience working with World Vision or similar international NGO financial policies, National Office finance processes, and donor-funded program operations
- Ability to speak, understand and write fluently in English
- All successful candidates will be required to undergo a police (criminal background) check
- Appropriate Counter-Terrorism Sanctions screening
- Consent to recruitment procedures regarding Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree or professional certification such as CPA, ACCA, CIA, CFE, or equivalent
- Experience with World Vision or similar international NGO financial policies, National Office finance processes, and donor-funded program operations
- Strong audit outcomes
- Experience using financial systems for budgeting, general ledger review, account coding, expenditure tracking, reconciliations, advances, reporting, cash management, and document retention
- Familiarity with donor financial reporting tools, grant trackers, partner monitoring templates, and shared document-management platforms
- Experience with faith-based organizations and fragile or conflict-affected contexts
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