Regional Finance Officer at MSI Reproductive Choices

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world’s leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post-abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, affordable, high-quality services for all.

Today, our organisation has over 9,000 team members working in 37 countries across the world. Our success lies in the fact that MSI teams are locally led, entrepreneurial and results-driven, and are passionate about delivering high quality, client-centred care in their own communities. As a social business, we focus on sustainable delivery, efficiency, and funding models that are built to last, so that the women and girls we serve today will have a choice in the future too.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Regional Finance Officer

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Employment Type: Full Time

Objectives

• Implement robust accounting and internal control systems to prevent fraud, waste, and misuse of financial resources, ensuring proper segregation of duties in transaction processing.
• Prepare monthly bank reconciliation and income reports.
• Monitor budgets to ensure planned spending, review budget amounts against actual expenditures, and prepare variance analysis reports monthly and quarterly.
• Input daily transactions into Marie Stopes International’s SUN system.
• Ensure proper coding and allocation of expenses to relevant cost centers/projects within the region.
• Review and process cash requests/retirements, and periodically review staff accounts, ensuring proper allocation of retired expenses against cash advances.
• Manage petty cash/float within the region.
• Collaborate with the Regional Manager to compile quarterly budgets from team members.
• Contribute to monthly management and periodic statutory reports/meetings.
• Ensure regional field office fund requests align with specific project budgets and allowable expenses.
• Remit all statutory deductions to appropriate authorities within the region in a timely manner.
• Ensure timely payments to mobilizers, casual/contract staff, and providers of products and services.
• Coordinate payments for all project activities.
• Ensure proper controls at centers/clinics and provide timely support to center managers.
• Ensure timely deduction and deposition of Withholding Tax (WHT) to authorities/states.
• Ensure proper filing of expenses/retirements at the regional office.
• Ensure assets are properly accounted for and maintained at the regional level.
• Post and report monthly clinic/SF income in the region.
• Work closely with the regional procurement committee to ensure adherence to MSI Nigeria’s procurement policy.
• Monitor monthly/periodic stocktaking in the region.
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the Line Manager, Regional Manager, or other superior officers.

Qualifications

• B.Sc./HND in Accounting preferred, with ACA qualification or equivalent; a master’s degree is an advantage.
• 3-5 years of experience in a similar role within an INGO/NGO, private, or public organization.
• Proficiency in using the SUN Accounting package.
• Strong team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multitask, manage workload, and produce high-quality, timely work and reports.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their comprehensive resume along with a brief cover letter as a single MS Word document or PDF to: [email protected]  using the job title as the subject of the mail.