Regional Finance Business Partner

Overview:
The Sr. Program Finance Manager (SPFM) is part of the Global Programs Finance Team and serves as a regional SFM. The SFM works closely with Program Staff, Contracts, Global Human Resources, and Jhpiego’s Country offices to ensure accurate financial, contractual and administrative reporting to management teams and agencies external to Jhpiego.

The Sr. Program Finance Manager will primarily provide management and oversight of the financial and contractual aspects for countries in the supported region. This includes proposal support, new award/country start-up, implementation, and control, financial monitoring, close-out, reporting, audit and cross-cutting Global Program Finance (GPF) functions.

The SPFM will serve as in an advisory capacity for country Finance and Admin Directors to ensure adherence to Jhpiego Policies and Procedures, SOPs and Funder guidelines. They will serve as an escalation point for Jhpiego Country finance, administration and logistics teams within their assigned region in coordination with the Director and Sr. Director of GPF. For countries directly supported, the SFM provides financial guidance to GPTE Sr. Portfolio Managers, Program Managers, Program Finance Managers, Country Directors, and agencies external to Jhpiego, particularly partner organizations. Additionally, the incumbent works closely with both the Global Programs Finance Unit’s leadership to ensure that resources are appropriately allocated and tracked and that expenditures are in line with available funding and with Jhpiego’s Global Policies to ensure accurate financial, contractual and administrative reporting to the management team and to agencies external to Jhpiego. This includes ensuring financial systems and reports are compatible with standard Jhpiego accounting practices and follow donor rules and regulations.

The SPFM provides training, capacity building, coaching and mentoring of junior finance staff and local partners by developing learning activities and materials to support capacity building. The SFM contributes to staff orientation, mentoring and technical updates to ensure staff possess excellent knowledge of technical area and approaches.

**This position is to be based in Asia-Middle East**

**Responsibilities**:
**Financial Management**
- Provides highly specialized guidance, support, advice and input on proposal budget costs based, leveraging findings from on analyses of new and existing implementation costs in countries of significant complexity, scope and budget
- Acts as key partner and contributor of expertise and industry knowledge pertaining to financial activities in the assigned country/global project that inform the development, design and delivery of effective budgets, workplans and processes in support of broader program objectives and program strategies
- Develops and implements financial processes and procedures and governs the requirements for work from a financial perspective for supported area, ensuring adherence and responsiveness to changing regulatory environments and /or donor requirements
- Conducts pipeline analysis and reporting as needed
- Acts as the main point of contact for resolution of escalated issues or sensitive, confidential matters with moderate to high risk and impact to the organization for assigned area
- May lead, facilitate and/or implement remediation plans to address performance, risk and / or governance issues, including responding to internal and external audit requests
- Contributes to the selection and management of relationships with organizational partners such as for auditor selection; reviews documents for accuracy, prepares management responses for review
- Interprets and advises on policies / procedures of high complexity and integrates broader organizational knowledge, raising awareness to impacts to other areas across the organization
- Conduct analysis of activity costs, unit costs, modelling of scenarios
- Serves as RIF (Remote Imprest Fund) administrator to review and approve RIF replenishment request
- At a portfolio level, ensure follow-up on QBE (QuickBooks Enterprise) due diligence report findings to clear within 30 days, ensuring country and program staff understand each finding and its applicable solution

**Financial Monitoring**
- Monitors service / productivity and assesses efficiency levels and implements continuous process / performance improvements where opportunities exist in assigned portfolio or global project
- Ensures respective programs / policies / practices are well managed, meet programmatic and organizational needs, comply with internal and external requirements, and align with organizational priorities
- Maintains Compliance and track statutory requirements
- Reviews and reconciles sub-recipients’ invoices
- Reviews expenditure monitoring reports
- Performs key financial analysis including BvA, Burn Rate, resource utilization, etc.
- Monitors financial expenses of sub-grantees against obligations and es