Switzerland: Finance Controller

Organization: Médecins Sans Frontières
Country: Switzerland
Closing date: 28 Dec 2014

Médecins Sans Frontières Suisse – Genève, GE

Médecins Sans Frontières - Switzerland seeks for its headquarters in Geneva a

Finance controller (operations)
This person is part of the Finance team, and reports to the Head of the Operational Finance unit. However, he/she sits with the operational cell, and also reports to the program responsible of that cell. The operational cell follows 5 countries, for an overall budget of 25 million CHF.

Role and Responsibilities
The finance controller is the financial resource person seconded to operations to help the cell with its field support activities. Among his/her responsibilities, for the missions followed within the relevant cell, he/she :

• contributes to the definition of the operational objectives and strategy by ensuring budgets are realistic and respect financial constraints, supervises the budgetary process throughout the planning cycle
• oversees mission management with regard to the relevance and effectiveness of the financial means allocated, follows commitments and controls expenses vs approved budgets, analyses costs
• is responsible for seeking institutional funding and for the quality of financial documents submitted to donors, ensures the close follow-up of institutional grants management and reporting
• provides technical support to the missions in terms of financial and administrative management, anticipates financial risks and problems that missions may have to deal with
• ensures the implementation of financial policies and procedures concerning financial management as defined by headquarters, vouches for adherence to the basic rules and quality standards. Propose adjustment of the said procedures to emergency context when necessary.
• is in charge of the briefing, training and coaching of all Finance Coordinators and administrators present on his/her missions.

Required profile

• University degree (graduate level), preferably in business administration / finance
• Successful experiences in humanitarian aid, as finance coordinator for major INGO (preferably MSF).
• Experience of institutional donors grant management, especially multi-donors cofunding
• Experience in management, excellent analytical and reporting skills, rigorous, attentive to detail, good organisational skills and able to prioritise
• Receptive, inquisitive, capacity to question and propose new ideas and pragmatic solutions
• Team player, able to work with multidisciplinary teams in a multicultural context
• Capacity to understand quickly complex technical concepts, learn fast and adapt
• Capacity to take initiatives and decisions, work under pressure, respect deadlines
• Good practise of a field accounting package (preferably SAGA) and ERP.
• Excellent knowledge of Excel, very comfortable with numbers and financial analysis
• Bilingual French / English required

Employment conditions

• 8 months contract
• Based in Geneva, with several visits to the field
• Start date : 1.02.2015
• Gross salary : CHF 7’460.-/month

How to apply:

Please send your complete application (including cover letter, CV/resume, contact details for your references, copies of work certificates/ recommendation letters) by email latest on Sunday 28th December 2014 to fabrice.ressicaud@geneva.msf.org, specifying on the subject line: «finance controller».

The applications will be considered with strict confidentiality.

For information on MSF-Switzerland, please check our website: http://www.msf.ch/