Position Title: Finance Operation Coordinator
Employer: Plan International
Employment: Full-Time | Contract
Place of Work: Addis Ababa - Ethiopia
Posted date: 6 months ago
Deadline: Submission date is over
The Opportunity
The Finance Operation Coordinator ensures accurate, timely, and compliant financial operations. Key duties include managing cash forecasting, payroll, statutory compliance, reconciliations, payments, documentation, and vendor accounts. The role also involves supervising and building team capacity, and aligning financial practices with organizational policies and national regulations. The coordinator is responsible for maintaining adequate cash flow, improving processes and systems to ensure timely service delivery.
The Individual
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Finance
- Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in finance operations, preferably (not necessarily gained in an NGO or INGO), out of which 3 years on a senior level
- Experience with SAP systems and Advanced Excel skills
- Hands-on experience in treasury, disbursement, and operations
- Sound analytical and problem-solving capability
- Ability to influence others’ behaviour through effective relationship building; thorough current knowledge and understanding of relevant policies,
- Demonstrated supervisory experience and ability to build team capacity.
- Good understanding of finance management and accounting
- Expertise in payroll, compliance, reconciliation, and donor finance.
- Proficiency in financial reporting.
- Experience in managing performance of staff.
- Fluency in English language is essential
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Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)
- Understands and puts into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC), ensuring that concerns are reported and managed per the appropriate procedures.
- Ensures that all staff in the unit/function/department are properly inducted on and understand their role in upholding Plan International’s safeguarding and GEI policies;
- Ensures that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
- Ensures that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.
Location: Addis Ababa, Country Office
Type of Role: Fixed term, full time contract
Reports to: Finance Manager
Closing Date: August 4, 2025
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.
We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.
We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.
A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from 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.
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