What does the Belgian Red Cross offer you ?
The opportunity to use your managerial skills as a team leader and your accounting and financial expertise to serve the humanitarian’action.
- One full-time contract for an indefinite period in Namur, to be filled immediately, within the largest humanitarian organization in the world, which mobilizes 2,000 employees and 12,000 volunteers in Belgium;
- A remuneration related to your experience, accompanied by’extra legal benefits: meal vouchers, group insurance, 100% of the cost of transport home-work, 4 Additional days off for legal leave in the first year (extended according to the time of presence) and 3 additional days in the following year;
- The possibility of teleworking with the corresponding indemnity’;
- A professional environment that shares the values of commitment, kindness, diversity and cooperation; and;
- A job that makes sense in a committed team.
Le International Department of the Belgian Red Cross its mission is to contribute to the strengthening of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement with a view to improving the resilience and living conditions of vulnerable people and their communities. To this end, we support the development and action of Red Cross partners abroad. In Belgium, we advocate for respect for international humanitarian law and carry out activities to restore family ties.
Function :
Under the hierarchical responsibility of the Deputy Director General in charge of international affairs and the Administrative and Financial Director of the Belgian Red Cross (French-speaking Community, Humanitarian Services), you are responsible for the Administrative and Financial Service of the international department. You work in close collaboration with the various department managers of this department and the Administration and Finance department of the Belgian Red Cross.
The Administrative and Financial Service, composed of six people, guarantees optimal management of the financial and material resources of the’organisation and supervises the execution of the financial strategy and procedures. It ensures an appropriate, agile and continuously improving deployment of administrative processes and procedures related to the management of financial resources.
The Administrative and Financial Service is the guarantor of compliance with the legal accounting and tax frameworks by ensuring the correctness, accuracy and, the reliability and compliance of accounts and’financial information of the department to the financial authorities.
Within the framework of international actions, the Administrative and Financial Service is also an operational stakeholder in helping to strengthen the financial capacities of national partner companies.
To do this, your responsibilities are as follows (non-exhaustive list) :
1. Management of the Administrative and Financial Service
Relays the relevant accounting, financial and administrative information to the Department’s management, other service managers and the Administrative and Financial Director of the Belgian Red Cross, if applicable.
Develops management tools, and procedures allowing the continuous improvement of the management of the ASBL.
Accounting and treasury :
- Supervises the accounting of the department
- Performs quarterly reporting and closing of annual accounts of’asbl
- Validates banking financial operations and service expenses
- Follow up on the payment of subsidies and communicate the information to the International Equity Service for the preparation of debt declarations
- Supervises cash flow and optimises investments.
Budget and financial monitoring of projects and programmes :
- Defines the annual budget of the department
- Oversees the annual/country budget planning process
- Supervises the budgeting, monitoring, budget revision and financial reporting for the programmes and projects. Informs operational managers of consumption and any risk of exceeding or under-utilizing a budget’
- Organizes the quarterly financial review, analyses deviations from the budget and the revision of the financial forecasts
- Analyzes, revises and consolidates budget data according to the lessor reporting method
- Monitoring the overall level of public and private financing, including monitoring of aid for’ emploi linked to the non-market sector (Maribel Fund, etc.)
- Monitoring compliance with the rules of financing contracts
- Proposes the’activation of co-financing on projects, checks the coherence of transversal projects.
Administrative management :
- Supervises administrative tasks including the organisation of travel, the management of the cash register, the provision and monitoring of computer equipment, telephone and supplies, classification and’archiving.
2. Strategic decision support and risk management
- Develops tools/dashboards of’aide to the decision.
- Carries out financial studies and analyses in order to ensure control of the financial aspects of the department on the basis of ongoing projects and associated co-financing.
- Based on’an analysis of risks and financial opportunities, alerts the various officials, proposes mitigation plans and /or’action plans. In particular, monitors the risks related to the exchange rate and VAT of the various projects/programmes.
- Supervises the administrative and financial processes and the updating of management tools and training allowing the continuous improvement of the quality of project/management/programmes with a constant concern for administrative simplification, while maintaining a high level of accountability.
3. ’team management
- Definition of the roles and responsibilities of the different members of the’ team in consultation with the needs of the other services.
- Follow-up and support of the different members of the’team on their technical issues and in the achievement of their objectives through’team meetings and regular individual meetings.
- Management and skills development, constructive feedback and coaching.
Profile :
- You hold a master’s degree in management, economics, finance with a specialization in finance or audit or any other equivalent experience.
- You have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience in internal control, financial audit, lessor referent or administrative & financial management and team’ management, ideally in the non-commercial sector.
- You have a very good knowledge of donors ; knowledge of DGD rules is an asset.
- You ideally demonstrate experience around humanitarian and development projects during’an expatriation in a developing country.
- You show leadership and diplomacy, you put forward a constructive and supportive attitude.
- You have a perfect command of French, a good knowledge of’anglais. You have excellent planning,’organization and’adaptation ability.
- You have good writing skills and are’aisance to handle and process numerical data; you have excellent’analysis capabilities.
- You are able to adapt to different audiences and multicultural environments. You have mastered the Office Suite and are particularly expert(e) on Excel and other financial management tools.
- You have a real interest in social and humanitarian’action in general, for the Red Cross in particular, and you are also in agreement with its 7 fundamental principles.
How to apply
Interested in this function ? Then send us your application now via the offer published on our website (BUTton “I APPLY”). We look forward to reading you !
