Job ID
46254
Job Title
Senior Finance Officer
To work for
Oxfam Syria
Country
Syria
City
Aleppo
Field of Work
Finances/Accountancy - Banking/Insurance
Job Type
Full time
Military service
Finished or Exempted (For male)
Minimum Education Level
Bachelor/ License Degree
Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES (Technical, Leadership, People and Resource management)
• Prepare project’s budgets and monitoring them in coordination with the budget and compliance coordinator
• Prepare the financial reports and submit them to the Reporting, Compliance, budgeting Coordinator.
• Prepare information required by auditors.
• Conduct audits of projects and partners.
• prepare the yearly council budgets for the hub
• Provide reports to the Finance Manager and Area Manager on the status of beneficiary/partner accounts
• To ensure that Oxfam financial procedures are followed
• To train finance staff and partner’s staff in the hub in Oxfam agreed procedures and basic accounting procedures and bookkeeping.
• Check monthly accounts in PeopleSoft as per set up deadlines
• Check monthly accounts for submission to Regional Centre and ensure that they are properly authorized, print PeopleSoft reports.
• Check the balance sheet accounts: Accruals, prepayments, creditors and debtors’ accounts to ensure they are balanced and correct
• Managing finance unit at the hub level, and ensure that team has there objective, appraisal, and capacity building plan is set up and follow up on implementation.
• Revise, audit, and process payments assuring it includes all the supporting doc’s: invoices, receipts, proof of payment, procurement doc’s, and or contracts, etc. This will require seeking appropriate authorization and insuring that all supporting documents are appropriately filed.
• Any other reasonable duties that may reasonably be requires, and in support of capacity building in the role.
• Prepare project’s budgets and monitoring them in coordination with the budget and compliance coordinator
• Prepare the financial reports and submit them to the Reporting, Compliance, budgeting Coordinator.
• Prepare information required by auditors.
• Conduct audits of projects and partners.
• prepare the yearly council budgets for the hub
• Provide reports to the Finance Manager and Area Manager on the status of beneficiary/partner accounts
• To ensure that Oxfam financial procedures are followed
• To train finance staff and partner’s staff in the hub in Oxfam agreed procedures and basic accounting procedures and bookkeeping.
• Check monthly accounts in PeopleSoft as per set up deadlines
• Check monthly accounts for submission to Regional Centre and ensure that they are properly authorized, print PeopleSoft reports.
• Check the balance sheet accounts: Accruals, prepayments, creditors and debtors’ accounts to ensure they are balanced and correct
• Managing finance unit at the hub level, and ensure that team has there objective, appraisal, and capacity building plan is set up and follow up on implementation.
• Revise, audit, and process payments assuring it includes all the supporting doc’s: invoices, receipts, proof of payment, procurement doc’s, and or contracts, etc. This will require seeking appropriate authorization and insuring that all supporting documents are appropriately filed.
• Any other reasonable duties that may reasonably be requires, and in support of capacity building in the role.
Qualifications
ESSENTIAL
• Sound judgement.
• Listening
• Self-Awareness
• Decisiveness
In addition:
• University Degree in Finance or Accountancy qualifications.
• 4-5 years of experience in finance with INGOs/NGOs including budget management, Payments reviewing, financial reporting.
• 5-8 years of relevant experience in Finance sector.
• Management of budgets: 2-3 years including preparation, monitoring, forecasting of budgets
• Demonstrated experience of Team management and capacity building of teams.
• Competency in use of relevant technology systems (MS Office suite, financial accounting, and accuracy skills)
• Reporting skills with experience for 2-3 years (internal reports and donor reports)
• Working with Audit experience 2-3 years
• Proactive engagement, collaboration and working in partnership with country office to achieve financial deliverables and inform decision making.
• High degree of accuracy, analysis and attention to detail
• Fluency in Arabic and English (written and verbal)
• Strong influencing and networking
• Good planning skills to include flexibility and adaptability.
• Excellent follow up skills.
Desirable
• Master's degree in relevant filed like economic, banking, Accounting.
• Recommends, influences and implements improvements.
• Previous experience of People soft database.
• Proactive in anticipating problems.
• CMA is an advantage.
• Sound judgement.
• Listening
• Self-Awareness
• Decisiveness
In addition:
• University Degree in Finance or Accountancy qualifications.
• 4-5 years of experience in finance with INGOs/NGOs including budget management, Payments reviewing, financial reporting.
• 5-8 years of relevant experience in Finance sector.
• Management of budgets: 2-3 years including preparation, monitoring, forecasting of budgets
• Demonstrated experience of Team management and capacity building of teams.
• Competency in use of relevant technology systems (MS Office suite, financial accounting, and accuracy skills)
• Reporting skills with experience for 2-3 years (internal reports and donor reports)
• Working with Audit experience 2-3 years
• Proactive engagement, collaboration and working in partnership with country office to achieve financial deliverables and inform decision making.
• High degree of accuracy, analysis and attention to detail
• Fluency in Arabic and English (written and verbal)
• Strong influencing and networking
• Good planning skills to include flexibility and adaptability.
• Excellent follow up skills.
Desirable
• Master's degree in relevant filed like economic, banking, Accounting.
• Recommends, influences and implements improvements.
• Previous experience of People soft database.
• Proactive in anticipating problems.
• CMA is an advantage.
Specific Vacancy Requirements
This advertisement is for one week only, advert close date is 14-01-2026
Salary and Benefits
As per oxfam salary scale
About us
Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations networked together in more than 90 countries, as part of a global movement for change, to build a future free from the injustice of poverty.
In Syria :
While Oxfam has been present in the region since 1970, it began operating in Syria through its Damascus based presence in July 2013. Since then, Oxfam has been responding to both the urgent WASH needs for vulnerable people, and has been working on the rehabilitation of water systems in order to provide durable, more sustainable solutions to the affected populations. Interventions implemented under Oxfam's WASH Programme include: Provision of Acute Emergency Life-Saving WASH Services, Rehabilitation of Water Systems, Hygiene Promotion and Water Conservation, Capacity Building and Training, and Improved Emergency WASH Coordination. To date, Oxfam has been worked in 10 governorates, seeking out to over 2.5 million beneficiaries.
In Syria :
While Oxfam has been present in the region since 1970, it began operating in Syria through its Damascus based presence in July 2013. Since then, Oxfam has been responding to both the urgent WASH needs for vulnerable people, and has been working on the rehabilitation of water systems in order to provide durable, more sustainable solutions to the affected populations. Interventions implemented under Oxfam's WASH Programme include: Provision of Acute Emergency Life-Saving WASH Services, Rehabilitation of Water Systems, Hygiene Promotion and Water Conservation, Capacity Building and Training, and Improved Emergency WASH Coordination. To date, Oxfam has been worked in 10 governorates, seeking out to over 2.5 million beneficiaries.
Required employees number
1
Posted On
Jan 07, 2026
Expiry Date
Jan 22, 2026
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CV Language
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