Interim Finance Coordinator 6 Months
Job Summary
The role focuses on coordinating day-to-day financial operations maintaining accurate financial records supporting budgeting and reporting monitoring transactions and helping ensure compliance with internal policies and applicable requirements. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented finance professional with strong financial management and analytical skills sound integrity effective stakeholder coordination and the ability to meet deadlines while improving processes.
1. Financial Operations & Reporting
- Coordinate day-to-day financial transactions and maintain complete accurate and up-to-date financial records.
- Support preparation of periodic financial statements management reports and other financial summaries.
- Reconcile accounts and financial records investigate discrepancies and follow through on resolution.
- Monitor cash flow expenditure and budget utilization escalating material variances or emerging issues.
- Coordinate payment documentation and approvals in line with established procedures.
2. Budgeting & Financial Analysis
- Support the preparation monitoring and review of departmental and organizational budgets.
- Compile and analyze financial data to identify trends variances risks and opportunities for cost efficiency.
- Prepare budget-versus-actual reports and provide clear explanations of significant variances.
- Provide timely and accurate financial information to support planning and management decision-making.
3. Compliance & Internal Controls
- Apply internal financial policies procedures and approval controls consistently.
- Maintain organized supporting documentation and audit trails for financial transactions.
- Support internal and external audit processes by preparing requested schedules and documentation.
- Identify potential control gaps irregularities or compliance concerns and escalate them appropriately.
- Handle financial and organizational information with confidentiality and integrity.
4. Stakeholder & Process Coordination
- Coordinate with relevant internal teams and external parties on invoices payments reconciliations and financial queries.
- Communicate financial information clearly to colleagues and stakeholders who may not have a finance background.
- Track outstanding financial actions and follow up to support timely resolution.
- Identify opportunities to streamline standardize or automate finance processes and improve operational efficiency.
- Prioritize competing tasks and meet reporting and transaction deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
Qualifications Experience & Attributes
- Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Business Administration or a related discipline.
- Relevant experience in financial coordination accounting finance operations or a similar role.
- Practical understanding of financial reporting reconciliations budgeting and internal controls.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications; familiarity with accounting or ERP systems is an advantage.
- Strong numerical analytical organizational and problem-solving skills.
- High level of integrity discretion attention to detail and accountability.
- Ability to communicate effectively collaborate across teams and manage competing priorities.
- Financial management and reporting: Ability to coordinate financial transactions maintain accurate records support budgeting and prepare timely and reliable reports.
- Financial controls compliance and integrity: Ability to follow financial policies maintain audit-ready documentation safeguard resources and handle sensitive information ethically.
- Analytical thinking and commercial acumen: Ability to interpret financial data analyze variances identify risks and inefficiencies and provide useful insights for decision-making.
- Stakeholder management and collaboration: Ability to coordinate effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders communicate financial matters clearly and resolve queries promptly.
- Planning execution and continuous improvement: Ability to organize workloads prioritize competing deadlines deliver accurate work on time and identify opportunities to improve finance processes.
Required Skills:
Advanced knowledge in Microsoft Office packages (MS Word Excel etc.) and good knowledge of core banking systems. Interpersonal/formal communication (oral and written) skills. Leadership and managerial skills. Planning and organizing skills / quality orientation. Relationship building skills. Ability to work under minimum supervision. Ability to review data identify and adjust discrepancies. Ability to handle a large volume of work possibly under time constraints. Good knowledge of administrative rules and regulations. Ability to organize and complete multiple tasks by establishing priorities
Required Education:
Bachelors degree in accounting or finance; an MBA is an added -K Membership