Finance Officer – Turkey – Emergency Response

Title: Finance Officer – Surge Roster/Interim

Department: Finance

Location: Turkey

Direct reports: Not Applicable

Budget responsibility: Not Applicable

• This role is classified as requiring standard pre-employment checks

Due to the nature of this emergency role, we are only considering candidates already based in Turkey.

Strong spoken and written Turkish is essential. 

About Relief International.

Relief International (RI) is a leading non-profit organization working in 16 countries globally to relieve poverty, ensure well-being and advance dignity. We specialize in fragile settings, responding to natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and chronic poverty.

RI combines humanitarian and development approaches to provide immediate services while laying the groundwork for long-term impact and resilience. We focus on health/nutrition, education, economic opportunity, and water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) programming while integrating protection, environment/climate change, and conflict mitigation in partnership with the communities we serve. We empower communities to find, design and implement the solutions that work best for them.

RI includes the three corporate members of the RI Alliance: RI-US, RI-UK, and MRCA/RI-France. Under our alliance agreement, we operate as a single, shared management structure.

About our Programs.

RI is active in 16 countries around the world, including some of the most fragile: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. Often, RI is the only organization providing assistance to highly vulnerable communities. 

RI employs about 5,000 staff and auxiliary workers

97% of staff are local nationals and there are about 90 international (expat) staff.

2021 programs budget is about $125M 

RI receives funding from a broad range of institutional donors – US, UK, Europe, and the UN, to delivery life-saving and resilience building programming with communities and local and international partners. RI supports solutions that reinforce and improve upon existing in-country systems. Where such systems do not exist or are chronically underperforming, RI’s crisis response lays the foundation for long-term, sustainable change. 

About RI Surge Interim Positions.

We are currently accepting applications for Relief International’s Surge Roster for short-term assignments (varying from weeks to months) to manage periods of emergency and transition within Relief International.

Position Summary.

The Finance Officer will support the finance team with administrative tasks, financial systems and day to day operations of the Country Program in which they are situated. In particular, the Finance Officer will support with accounting and documenting all financial transactions for the country program, whilst ensuring that RI accounting procedures are followed; that cash is controlled, accounted for in a timely manner in accordance with RI, donor and audit requirements; ensuring accurate cost allocation to multiple projects. 

Key Responsibilities and Duties.

• Admin tasks such as tracking and monitoring of procurements and expenditures, maintains an office purchasing, inventory, and requisition system.
• Coordinates compiling of monthly financial reports including in-kind commodity income and disbursements for submission to the International Finance Controller and Country Director.
• Works closely with the Country Director and Program Managers to monitor the project budget.
• Assists project coordinators in ensuring compliance with RI procurements and field accounting policies and procedures, compliance with donor agreement and audit requirements.
• Works closely with project coordinators over the project implementation planning and cash flow projections.
• Prepares donor reports.
• Support with budget revision in close coordination with Project Managers when necessary.
• Makes sure that financial records and backup documentation is ready for internal and external audits.
• Support with Internal and External Auditors.
• Compile financial summaries for country office, checking for accuracy and compliance.
• Ensure that financial records and backup documentation is ready for internal and external audits.
• Provide technical finance support services to the Field offices programs as required.
• Provide technical assistance to field programs and staff in matters of financial processes and procedures
• Other tasks as required.

Other related tasks that may arise from time to time.

• Uphold and promote RI’s commitment to ensuring the safeguarding and safety of the vulnerable communities we serve.
• Consistent with RI’s safeguarding and protection policies, contribute to ensuring that all those who come into contact with Relief International staff and the communities we serve can be trusted to work safely with them
• Support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents sexual exploitation and abuse and promotes the implementation of the Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies.
• Work collaboratively with the Global Safeguarding Manager to advocate for the inclusion of safeguarding activities and resources within program
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of donor requirements of safeguarding standards and protection from exploitation and abuse.

Role requirements.

Experience and skills required for the role.

• Degree in accounting, business management, NGO management, or similar.
• Experience in finance position preferably with non–profit agencies. US and EC government funded grants financial and administrative experience is a preference.
• Strong attention to detail
• Fluency in written and spoken Turkish essential. Arabic language would be a bonus.
• Proficiency in Excel essential

RI Values.

Guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, as well as “Do No Harm,” Relief International Values:

We value:

• Integrity
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Inclusivity
• Sustainability

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How to apply.

• To apply for this post, click on the “Apply” button in the job advert page
• You will be asked to upload a CV and Cover Letter.
• The cover letter should be no more than 2 pages long and explain why you are interested in this post with Relief International and how your skills and experience make you a good fit.

Closing date. Please apply immediately we will be reviewing applicants on a rolling basis, therefore may withdraw the position for the job board closing date.

Please apply by uploading your cover letter and up-to-date CV on our website .

Due to limited resources, only short-listed candidates will be contacted

Relief International has a zero-tolerance policy for unlawful harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse. Relief International is committed to protecting our staff and the communities we work with from abuse and harm including sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and sexual harassment.

All staff are expected to abide by our Code of Conduct.

Recruitment to all roles in Relief International include a criminal records self-declaration, references and other pre-employment checks, which may include police and qualifications checks.

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