Finance Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: FINANCE MANAGER (FM)
Grade: LB2
Reports to: Director
Qualifications: Minimum BSc in Accounting from a recognized academic institution
Duration: 2 years (24 months)

Job Purpose:
To ensure best practice in Financial Management of ECD Department in order to maximize efficiency, accountability and growth.

Job Description: Responsible for implementing all aspects of Finance.

Supervisory responsibilities: The Finance Manager will directly supervise the accounts staff.

Key skills

• Strong leadership & Accounting skills
• Strong concern for social improvement
• Strong sense of judgment
• Reliability & integrity
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, technical, IT and numerical abilities are crucial.
• Commercial awareness, initiative and the ability to work as part of a team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. FINANCE & BUDGETING

• Development of budgeting methodology and aiding other managers in preparing their budgets and reports and consolidating such.
• Liaise with programme Manager, and other senior staff on preparation of programme budgets.
• Make recommendations on the updating of the financial procedures and policies and disseminate any changes to all relevant staff
• Operation and maintenance of ECD bank accounts in liaison with the Director.
• Maintenance of accounting books, systems and packages
• Managing reconciliations and audit requirements
• Ensuring compliance of ECD accounting policies & procedures as well as statutory

Financial requirements

• Forecasting the cash flow requirements
• Checking of bank reconciliation statements to
• keep track of balances
• Review of financial reports as prepared by the Accounts Assistants.
• Coordination of audit activities as well as accounts payables and receivables.
• Supervising the management of the programme and project accounts.
• Tracking the progress of projects from a financial standpoint and tracking expenditure against the budget.
• Checking financial and administrative procedures such as: payroll, bookkeeping, insurance, budget and cost control, personnel policies, accounting functions etc

Application details

• Interested applicants must send a detailed application letter and an attached personal resume.

Deadline for application is 16:00 pm on 20th July, 2026

• All applications to be submitted electronically to the Executive Director, ECD
  Department P.O. Box 112, Mzuzu and sent to info@soliniaecd.org
• Only successful candidates will be shortlisted for interviews.