Finance Lead
3-year Fixed Term Contact. Full Time
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Salary: Competitive
If we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert before the scheduled closing date. Therefore, we encourage interested applicants to apply at their earliest convenience.
About us
Christian Aid exists to create a world where everyone can live a full life, free from poverty. We are a global movement of people, churches and local organisations who passionately champion dignity, equality and justice worldwide. We are the changemakers, the peacemakers, the mighty of heart.
We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, and recognise the value this brings in forming strong, creative and high performing teams. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, and from those with experience from outside of the voluntary sector. And no, you don’t have to be Christian to work here – we encourage people of all faiths and none to apply. We just ask that everyone lives out our values of dignity, equality, justice and love. We value a good work-life balance, so we’re open to part-time and flexible working. We also offer hybrid working for our office-based colleagues.
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About the role
Reporting in to the Head of Finance in the UK, the Finance Lead will lead and coordinate all restricted budgets in Nigeria. The post holder will provide a wide range of business support, financial analysis and information to the Senior management team of the Multi-Country Cluster (MCC).
The Finance Lead provides strategic leadership and oversight of all financial aspects of the programme, ensuring effective resource management, financial accountability, compliance, and value for money across the consortium. The role supports the achievement of programme outcomes by leading financial planning, budgeting, reporting, risk management, and financial performance monitoring, while fostering strong collaboration with consortium partners, financial institutions, donors, and other stakeholders.
Some of the main areas of responsibility for the Finance Lead include:
- Leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial coordination to ensure programme resources are managed effectively and programme outcomes are achieved in line with the programme’s theory of change.
- Providing strategic financial leadership across the consortium, fostering transparent, accountable, and trust-based financial collaboration among NGOs, agribusiness partners, financial institutions, youth organizations, government actors, and other stakeholders.
- Ensuring financial strategies and resource allocation support youth-centred and gender-responsive programming, addressing barriers to youth and women’s participation in the poultry value chain through equitable investment and financing mechanisms.
- Overseeing financial systems and funding mechanisms that support youth-led agribusinesses, apprenticeship models, digital learning platforms, and improved access to finance, productive assets, and agricultural inputs.
- Guiding the programme’s financial sustainability and market systems financing approach, ensuring effective engagement with financial service providers, investors, and market actors to expand access to financial services and strengthen value chain development.
- Leading financial risk management, compliance, and internal controls, ensuring adherence to donor requirements, consortium agreements, statutory regulations, and organizational policies.
- Providing oversight of financial reporting and performance monitoring, ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality financial information is available to consortium partners, programme leadership, and donors to support effective programme delivery and impact.
About you
Who we are looking for:
Essential:
- Professional accounting qualification (such as ACCA, ACA, CIMA, ICAN or equivalent) and/or equivalent relevant experience.
- Significant experience in senior finance roles, including budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting and business partnering.
- Experience of leading financial risk management, internal controls and compliance in a complex organisational environment.
- Experience of managing, coaching or coordinating staff and/or cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality financial outcomes.
- Experience of developing financial plans, budgets, forecasts and management reporting to support decision-making.
- Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly and confidently to non-financial audiences.
- Strong understanding of financial controls, accounting principles and financial analysis.
- Knowledge of relevant tax, regulatory and compliance requirements relevant to the role.
- Ability to build credibility for finance as a value-adding partner and to influence decision-making through financial insight.
- Experience of improving or working with financial systems, processes or reporting tools to support effective financial management.
Desirable:
- Experience in the development, humanitarian, not-for-profit or similarly complex grant-funded sector.
- Experience of managing multiple or large donor-funded projects or programmes, including those funded by institutions such as Mastercard Foundation, ECHO or similar donors.
- Experience of the legislative and regulatory environment relevant to UK charities.
- Familiarity with Nigerian regulations, particularly statutory remittances and related compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of development issues and market systems or programme delivery contexts relevant to the role.
Further information
At Christian Aid we strive to be an inclusive and diverse employer and recognise the value that this brings in helping to build strong, creative and high performing teams.
We are actively encouraging racialised minorities, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people with caring responsibilities, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds, women, and older workers to apply. This is because these groups are under-represented within our teams, especially at senior level, and we recognise and value the contributions members of these groups make to strong, creative and high performing teams. n ethos and we encourage applications from all faiths. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of and sympathy with Christian Aid’s faith identity.
All successful candidates will require a DBS/police check appropriate to the role and location and a Counter Terrorism Sanction check as part of your clearance for commencing your role with us. We also participate in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information as part of the referencing process from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
This role requires applicants to have the right to live and work in the country where this position is based and undertake the role that you have been offered. If you are successful and we make you an offer for the role, we will be required to conduct a right to work check on your immigration status in the UK. We will contact you regarding the documentation you will need to provide to evidence this.
You can expect a wide range of rewards and benefits
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