The Finance Officer\/Coordinator assists to fulfil the financial duties of the MSC Foundation, ensuring rigorous, timely and efficient adherence to the Foundation’s policies and procedures within the Governance framework.The Finance Officer\/Coordinator will be responsible for the following main set of duties, under the supervision and guidance of the Secretary General:

• Ensure that the Foundation implements a robust internal control system to safeguard the resources available along with full compliance to legal and regulatory requirements.
• Foster value for money in the utilisation of Foundation’s resources.•Perform all financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis as deemed necessary.
• Ensure day-to-day budget monitoring and control, and reporting of MSC Foundation’s financial performance.
• Conduct administrative activities related to the financial and accounting area.
• Fluent in English, excellent writing, and communication skills. Any other language is an advantage.
• Bachelor’s degree, with focus on administration and finance; project management will be a plus.
• At least 7-10 years of experience in administration, accounting, finance and\/or business management, preferably in the non-profit sector.
• Working experience in non-profit environment.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to research, digest, analyse and present material clearly and concisely.
• Expert user of IT tools, including Excel, PDF, Word, and Power Point
• Capable of autonomous audit procedures, with strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Honesty and Reliability.
• Attention to details.
• Able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Discretion and understanding of confidentiality issues.
• Accounting and Financial duties
• Create\/apply financial plans with measurable targets and tracked performance.
• Implement a risk management framework and ensure proper mitigations and monitoring of the identified risks to minimise their impact on the operations of the Foundation.
• Develop and maintain financial systems.
• Forecast and monitor cashflow.
• Monitor budget performance, expenditure control and provide periodical financial analysis.
• Process and keep records of all Payment Requisitions (PR) and Request of Reimbursements (Ro R) issued by each staff member and prepare the weekly Batch for the accounting team.
• Ensure proper accounting of donations and issuance of donors’ tax advantages, when applicable.
• Keep detailed records of all Foundation’s staff travels and travel expenses, liaising with Cisalpina and any other relevant supplier.
• Analyze administrative expenses, identify trends, good practices from the sector, and ways of cost optimization based on request of your line manager.
• Support on the preparation of the foundation’s annual budget.
• Prepare documents to Finance and Executive Committees and Board meetings, and reports and documents for the Secretary General review.
• Support senior management in timely reporting the expenses made through the corner card and with the personal credit card of money.

Other Responsibilities:

• Keep projects and donor’s records, staff and consultants’ contracts.
• Maintaining schedules and details of project financial transfers and other project related payments required and their due dates.
• Preparing and monitoring requests for transfers of funds to implementing Partners.
• To contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

VISA REQUIREMENTS (if any)

EU Passport or Right to work in Switzerland.

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