Finance Specialist

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently looking for a highly qualified Finance Specialist for our operations in our Addis Ababa Country Office.Overall purpose of the role The National Finance Specialist serves as the technical anchor for donor budgeting and reporting, financial analysis, forecasting, and BFU leadership across the country programme. The role ensures consistent & standard quality control, strengthens ERP/Dynamics data integrity, and provides targeted coaching and capacity-building to Finance staff and relevant stakeholders.Operating with a high degree of independence and capable of remote management, the Specialist delivers timely, accurate, and compliant financial outputs across a complex, multi donor portfolio. The position plays a central role in coordinating and advising on all financial aspects of the country’s reporting cycles, ensuring that financial management practices align with donor requirements and the Finance Chapters of DRC’s Operations HandbookYour main duties and responsibilities will be:Donor Budgeting & Proposal DevelopmentLead development of donor proposal budgets and revisions (ECHO, EU, SIDA, FCDO, BHA/USAID, DANIDA, GFFO, SDC, UNICEF, etc.) ensuring alignment with donor rules, cost eligibility, exchange rate assumptions, and internal cost‑coverage strategy.Draft/validate budget narratives, cost allocation rationales, and consistency check against logframes and procurement/HR plans.Coordinate with Program, HR, and Supply Chain to ensure complete, realistic, and on‑time budget packages.Responsible for providing specialized knowledge and operational know-how within a budgeting and reporting area.Donor Reporting LeadershipOwn the end‑to‑end donor financial reporting cycle: calendars, data extraction, reconciliations, currency conversions, cross‑checks against GL/ERP and BFUs, and final QC.Produce clear, error‑free reports and management notes (variance explanations, risk flags, corrective actions).Support timely delivery of quality financial reports to donors and internal reports to colleagues and HQEnsure compliance with relevant country statutory and other financial obligations such as tax, levies and statutory returnsBFU Governance, Financial Analysis & ForecastingLead/coach monthly BFU meetings and analysis with Budget Holders and projects managers.Drive variance analysis and ensure timely corrective actions, issue concise executive summaries to SMT.Track BFU actions to closure; maintain “no‑surprises” cadence on risks and deadlines.Deliver forward‑looking financial insights: rolling forecasts, burn rates, runway, pipeline/prognosis, scenario analysis.Support the Master Budget (MB) gap analysis, cost coverage and resource allocation decisions with clear, data‑driven recommendations.Maintain a continuous overview of funding levels and pay particular attention to shared support costs, including staff salaries.Data quality, compliance & internal controlsDesign and enfor...