Finance Manager Lebanon

The Finance Manager provides strategic financial leadership, strengthens financial systems, and ensures effective and accountable use of resources to deliver humanitarian assistance in Lebanon. The role involves budgeting, reporting, compliance, internal controls, and capacity building within NRC Lebanon's finance team and partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic financial leadership across NRC Lebanon, ensuring robust financial systems, policies, internal controls, and compliance with NRC, donor, and local regulatory requirements.
• Lead budgeting, financial reporting, and analysis, delivering timely, accurate insights to inform senior management decisions and support effective resource allocation.
• Oversee accounting, cash flow, and liquidity management, ensuring operational continuity, accurate financial records, and effective audit preparation and follow-up.
• Manage financial risks and compliance, strengthening accountability, implementing anti-corruption measures, and addressing audit findings and financial control gaps.
• Advise and support budget holders and programme teams throughout the project cycle, from proposal development and budgeting to expenditure monitoring and reporting.
• Strengthen financial capacity and team performance through effective leadership, staff development, and technical support to Finance colleagues and budget holders nationwide.
• Advance NRC’s localisation agenda by strengthening financial systems, tools, and capacity to support local partners and actors in delivering compliant, effective, and sustainable humanitarian responses.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, or a relevant field.
• At least four years of finance experience, including three years in a managerial or equivalent role within a humanitarian or recovery context.
• Experience working with local partners and institutional humanitarian donors.
• Strong financial analysis, budgeting, reporting, and risk management skills, with proficiency in MS Excel and accounting systems.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Experience developing financial systems during organisational change is highly desirable.
• Emergency finance leadership experience and previous work in the Middle East are an advantage.
• Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Lebanon; NRC cannot provide work permits or visa sponsorships for this position.

Skills

• Financial Analysis
• Budgeting
• Financial Reporting
• Risk Management
• MS Excel
• Accounting systems
• Financial Systems
• Emergency Finance Leadership
• Financial Compliance
• Internal Controls
• Capacity Building
• Humanitarian Financing
• Partner Financial Management
• Donor Financial Reporting

Languages

English