HR/Fin

Working as Finance and/or Human Resources manager in the Field

You proactively analyze and anticipate operational needs, ensuring the project is equipped with the essential human and financial resources. In your daily responsibilities, you are at the heart of the project’s administrative, HR, and financial operations.

You implement HR policies and manage the full administrative lifecycle of national and international staff, while supporting managers in their HR responsibilities and ensuring compliance with internal procedures and labor regulations.

You oversee the implementation of financial tools and procedures to ensure rigorous and compliant management of project resources, strengthening internal controls, and delivering reliable, transparent financial information for effective monitoring and donor reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Train, supervise, and manage the Finance and HR department team, which may include HR and Finance Assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff, and accountants. Propose set-up changes and recruit new team members when needed.
  • HR: Plan, supervise, and ensure the implementation of HR processes such as recruitment, onboarding, performance appraisal, and team development – in compliance with local labor law and MSF principles.
  • HR: In coordination with the Project Coordinator and the HR Coordinator, assess operational human resources needs to ensure appropriate staffing for project activities, and define and update the project organizational chart and job descriptions.
  • HR: Support managers in fulfilling their managerial and HR responsibilities, including identifying training needs, conducting performance evaluations, preventing and managing conflicts, and handling abuse-related situations, to strengthen individual and collective capacities and optimize staff contribution to mission objectives.
  • HR: Supervise and execute payroll procedures for locally hired staff working on the project, ensuring the accuracy of payroll variables (leave, overtime, salary advances, etc.) and timely salary payments.
  • HR: Manage the logistical and administrative aspects of the arrival, accommodation, and departure of all international staff working on the project.
  • HR: Ensure that all HR activities are conducted in compliance with safeguarding principles, duty of care, diversity, and inclusion, integrating these cross-cutting principles into all HR practices to guarantee a safe, respectful, and equitable working environment for all staff.
  • Finance: Coordinate regular budget updates to ensure realistic and timely forecasts of resources. Critically analyse and summarise variations and present them to project management team (managers and Project Coordinator) and to the Finance Coordinator. Brief other team members on their budget responsibilities.
  • Finance: Implement circuits and workflows for cash management in order to anticipate expenses at project level and optimise cash needs and security.
  • Finance: Oversee accounting at project level, ensuring timeliness, transparency, precision and adherence to MSF accounting standards. The Finance Manager is not asked to encode all the entries, but he/she must understand the system, coordinate Finance team to meet standards and deadlines and alert coordination if support is needed.
  • Finance: Ensure that the system of control is in place at project level. Brief people involved to put them in condition to play their role (validation and engagement of expenses and responsible management of assets). Identify and mitigate risks of frauds and corruption.
  • Finance: Understand how Finance tools interact with those of other departments (Supply, HR) to ensure quality and correctness of financial data.

Requirements

  • Minimum of two years’ relevant work experience in finance and human resource
  • IT skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
  • Fluency in English and/or French; any other languages are an asset (Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian)
  • Available for a minimum of six months

General skills

  • Commitment to MSF’s social mission and values
  • Strong team spirit
  • Willingness to work in any type of context, including unstable environments
  • Ability to work in a multicultural environment and demonstrate commitment and support for diversity, inclusive behaviors, and non-discriminatory attitudes
  • Responsible behavior contributing to the safety and integrity of all, and the prevention, reporting, and rejection of any abusive behavior and/or behavior contrary to MSF values
  • Flexibility and stress resilience
  • Ability to prioritise
  • Proactive and solution-oriented approach
  • Ability to train others
  • People-oriented mindset and diplomatic approach

Assets

  • Degree in Business Administration, Management, Human Resources, Bioforce diploma, Swiss CFC, or a specialized certificate
  • Professional experience in contexts similar to our areas of intervention
  • Experience in team management
  • Experience supporting managers on HR matters, team management, conflict management, and sensitive situations
  • Strong knowledge of HR processes: recruitment, administrative management, performance evaluation, and staff development
  • Strong understanding of budgeting process
  • Understanding of accounting principles
  • Understanding of ERP and business intelligence (for instance, PowerBI)
  • Ability to analyse and summarise
  • Proficiency in another MSF working language (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian)

Testimonies

Diversité

Depending on our activities and needs, your responsibilities may be adapted and evolve. You will not face these challenges alone; other MSF team members (both international and locally hired staff) will support you.

After having understood MSF approach and the project, you are encouraged to propose changes and improvements and integrate reflections from your previous career into the project.

We encourage applications from people of all genders, ages, sexual orientations, backgrounds, religions, beliefs, abilities and all other characteristics of diversity.

MSF does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of discrimination or harassment, including sexual harassment. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo reference and criminal record checks.

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