Finance Manager

About the role

The Danish Refugee Council is looking for a Finance Manager for its Addis Ababa Country Office in Ethiopia. The role keeps the country office financially healthy, strengthens donor relationships and supports localisation, while ensuring compliance with DRC procedures. It covers finance activities across Addis Ababa and field offices, and the holder can make significant decisions on the Finance team's purpose, functions and resource commitments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the Finance team, manage hiring, performance appraisals, development and disciplinary matters, and exercise budget oversight.
• Manage financial planning and analysis, cash flow, financial risk, budgeting and reporting, and ensure compliance with statutory obligations such as taxes and levies.
• Deliver quality financial reports to donors and HQ, run monthly budget follow-up and project monitoring meetings, and collect cash forecasts from programme managers.
• Keep the Master Budget up to date in Microsoft Dynamics, coordinate allocations and resource scheduling, and forecast financial performance.
• Ensure compliance with DRC's Operations Handbook, apply ERP finance processes across the country, train finance staff and provide in-service training and mentoring.
• Support audits and financial reviews, including liaising with government officials and external auditors, and develop a country risk register and mitigation plan.
• Take part in partner selection, due diligence, advance/reimbursement processing and partner financial reporting.
• Provide technical supervision to field finance officers and assistants, and travel to field locations about 30% of the time.

Required profile

• At least 5 years' experience in a senior financial management position and 3 years in people management.
• Proven experience managing large budgets of international humanitarian organisations and working with national partners and donors such as NORAD, SIDA, EU, ECHO, DANIDA, FCDO and others.
• Master's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting or a related field, and a professional accounting certification.
• Full professional proficiency in English; only qualified Ethiopian nationals are invited to apply.

Required skills

• Advanced Excel and experience with financial IT systems, particularly Microsoft Dynamics.
• Ability to work independently, multitask and solve problems proactively.

What we offer

• 12-month national contract (band F1) with possible extension, starting 1 January 2027.
• Duty station in Addis Ababa; the position is not eligible for relocation.

Applications must include a cover letter and a CV of no more than three pages in English, uploaded through the DRC online application link; email applications are not accepted. The closing date is 16 November 2026.