Population Services International
Who we are
PSI Malawi is affiliated to Population Service International, a Washington DC based non-governmental and nonprofit making organization. Since 1994, PSI Malawi has partnered the government of Malawi in providing high impact implementation of services across a wide range of health areas including Reproductive Health, HIV, Malaria, Child Survival, and water-borne disease prevention. PSI Malawi is a champion of consumer powered healthcare, leveraging innovative approaches to behavior change communications such as human centered design; that use consumer insights to inform how we design, deliver, and scale health solutions.
Join us!
We are looking for a Finance Manager to a provide oversight on the day to day operations in the Finance department by ensuring that PSI Malawi’s accounting system remains robust so as to maintain integrity of the data and reports produced therefrom, and is in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles; further to ensure that the day to day financial activities that feed into final financial reports are accurately and timely done. The jobholder will coordinate cash flow projections, being the lead person for risk management and responsible for all audits including Management Action Plans (MAPs). Work in collaboration with the grants management team to provide financial performance reports to management and budget holders.
Your contributions
- Oversee the day to day maintenance of sound accounting systems to ensure that it gives reasonable assurance that the records and controls are sufficient to ensure accuracy and reliability of financial information for expenditure monitoring and reporting; proving guidance and supervision in the production of accurate management accounts for use in decision making by Senior Management.
- Ensure transactions are timely and accurately captured and are in compliance with existing controls, donor regulations and local legislation (e.g. computation and remittance of taxes)
- Take a lead in designing, reviewing and assisting the Head of Finance and Operations to update the Common Direct Cost allocation policy, getting it approved on an annual basis or as when changes are made and ensuring strict adherence during every month-end reporting.
- Continuously conduct process improvement reviews, and recommend, where necessary, the possible policy and procedural changes to enhance efficiency
- Take a lead in risk management, i.e. identify emerging financial risks in the day to day financial processes and recommend to the Head of Finance and Operations on controls that would help mitigate such risks while advising management of the existing risks as already recorded in the organizational and/or departmental risk registers.
- Lead in capacity building initiatives for Finance in particular and all staff in general ensuring their level of competency is aligned to their roles.
- Manage all audits; audit planning; support audit ground work, engage all relevant stakeholders in the course of the audit and coordinating timely provision of information as requested by the Auditors to ensure audits are completed on time and ensure that Management Actions Points (MAPs) for all audits are carried out within 90 days of the end of the audit
What are we looking for?
- A chartered accountant with ACCA, CIMA, ICAM or any recognized institution plus a Masters degree in Finance, Administration, Economics or any other field
- At least seven (7) years of continuous experience in Finance & Accounting in a busy environment with multiple donor funding streams, of which a minimum of five (5) years must have been in a management role.
- In-depth knowledge of, and experience in managing donor funding. Experience working with International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) preferred.
- Proven sound and solid leadership capability, with an ability to lead big teams.
The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:
Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.
Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.
Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt.
Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI Malawi serves its consumers and partners with the Malawi government through thick and thin.
References will be required. The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.
PSI maintains zero tolerance for child abuse, sexual abuse, or exploitative acts or threats by our employees, consultants, volunteers, contractors, or anyone associated with the delivery of our programs and services and takes seriously all complaints of misconduct brought to our attention.
PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.
ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE: If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process due to a physical or mental disability, please send an email to: safeguarding@psimalawi.org
Method of Application
Qualified candidates with the specified qualifications and experience should submit their application letters together with detailed curriculum vitae with names and contact details of at least three traceable referees by 28th September, 2022 to The Head of Human Resources, PSI Malawi, P.O. Box 30132, Lilongwe through: jobs@psimalawi.org, indicating “FINANCE MANAGER” as the subject line. Only applications sent through email will be reviewed.