Marie Stopes International (MSI) exists to bring quality family planning and reproductive healthcare to the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people. We’ve been delivering family planning, safe abortion, and maternal health services for over 35 years.

We are one of the largest international family planning organisations in the world. Millions of the world's poorest and most vulnerable women trust MSI to provide them with quality family planning and reproductive healthcare. This is an excellent time to be joining MSI: with 12,000 employees worldwide, delivering services in 42 countries, we are expanding rapidly and have set ourselves the ambitious goal of doubling our reach by 2020. We operate as a social business in order to increase the sustainability of our funding and the life-changing services we provide, and place great emphasis on operational research to continually evaluate and improve the effectiveness of our health programmes.

About the Role
We are recruiting a Finance Director (FD) for our Nigeria Programme based in Abuja and reporting into the Country Director. As the Finance Director, you will be responsible for the strategic oversight of financial management and information technology functions in MSK, ensuring appropriate systems, procedures and controls are in place and fully implemented as an integral part of all staff responsibilities to support the continued growth of the country programme. You will maintain close contact with both internal and external stakeholders on all matters of financial and IT management and accountability, managing the risks associated with this strategic programme area.


Job Title: FINANCE DIRECTOR
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Reporting to: Country Director

Key Responsibilities:
You will provide excellent leadership to small and highly professional finance and information technology team, with a particular focus on ensuring the finance team has the capacity to undertake world class financial management, including profitability management, maintenance of a positive cash flow, managing a healthy control environment and is able to provide high quality budgeting and business planning support. The role is a member of the Country Management Team (CMT) which is the senior leadership and decision making team of MSK. Reflecting MSK’s values in its behaviour and led by the Country Director, the CMT is made up of five core departments which, working together and mutually accountable, are responsible for development and delivery of a strategic programme characterised by a social enterprise model that is sustainable and delivers value for money in the medium to long term. The CMT designs and delivers an annual business plan and budget, oversees the realization of impact and value for money and manages risk and assurance in relation to quality and compliance.

About you
We see you being a professional qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA) with significant experience in a similar position at senior management level, with ideally both NGO and private sector exposure. You will be a strong leader, with management aptitude in leading diverse teams at a distance.
Experience in strategic planning and execution of plans to achieve objectives or donor contract requirements is essential. In addition, experience of donor budgeting and reporting and prior experience in managing grants is highly desirable.

To be successful in the role, you will possess the following:
· A professional qualified accountant certification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA).
· At least five years’ of experience in a leadership role for a large division or company.
· Experience in strategic planning and execution of plans to achieve objective and targets.
The successful candidate will have the right to work in Nigeria and be pro-choice on abortion.

What we can offer you
At MSI, you will be a part of a progressive and collaborative working environment, and we can guarantee that you will be surrounded by passionate, focused, intelligent, high-achieving, talented individuals. In return for your commitment, we can offer you a supportive environment for development, as well as a competitive salary and benefits package.

How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply by email with CV and suitability statement as a single attachment to [email protected] not later than Tuesday 19th January 2016.

MSION is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to achieving gender balance within the organization. Female candidates are encouraged to apply.

The subject of the email should be the POSITION TITLE/LOCATION and the CV/Suitability statement should be saved in the applicant’s full name. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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