Regional Finance Officer

Summary

Join The HALO Trust as a Regional Finance Officer, Africa Region, based ideally in Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, with frequent travel to UK offices and regional locations. Support the Regional Finance Manager by providing financial advice and assistance across HALO programs. Key responsibilities include donor contract management, program support, and ensuring program compliance. You will manage donor reports, budgets, and financial monitoring, working closely with operations and implementing partners. The role requires a bachelor's degree in a related field, strong finance experience, and excellent Excel skills. HALO offers a competitive salary, 25 days annual leave, life assurance, private medical cover, pension contributions, emergency medical insurance, and a flexible working policy.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business administration, or a related field is often essential
• Strong and demonstrable experience in a finance role
• Use of Excel to manipulate and analyse data (ability to produce pivot tables, VLookup, SUMIF etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Willingness to travel to HALO Africa programmes

Responsibilities

• Support the production of timely financial donor reports and funds requests
• Provide support in the development of donor budgets utilising HALOs financial planning system (Adaptive Insights)
• Support in the development of systems, tools and processes to ensure HALO’s budgeting and forecasting process operates efficiently and effectively
• Assist the financial monitoring and review of grants/contracts, working closely with operations to forecast and report on project costs to completion
• Support programmes in the construction of country budgets together with anticipated donor funding allocations
• Prepare for approval and enter monthly journals into the accounting system
• Support the review and reconciliation of implementing partner’s reports and review of request for payment
• Assist monitoring of compliance against overseas statutory regulations, including company registration, financial reporting and taxation
• Assist in the monitoring of compliance against Donor regulations and HALO financial and logistics standing operating procedures, carrying out desk and field-based audits
• Assist in the production of transactional reports/documentation for grant/contract audits, liaising with the external auditors/country teams as appropriate
• Uphold HALO’s core values and promote its mission
• Work towards achieving business plan objectives
• Familiarize yourself with HALO policies and keep informed about activities
• Travel to HALO programmes as needed (up to 3 short visits per year)
• Adhere to HALO’s Health and Safety Procedures, including risk assessments and evacuation protocols

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave, plus 8 statutory holidays
• Non-contributory life assurance
• Private medical health cover
• Pension contributions matched by HALO up to 5%
• Emergency medical insurance when traveling overseas
• Flexible working policy