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Senior Finance and Compliance Officer ( Temporary Position) job at War Child
Posted by: great-volunteer
Posted date: 2026-Feb-14
Location: Kampala
Senior Finance and Compliance Officer ( Temporary Position) 2026-02-14T09:02:43+00:00 War Child https://cdn.ugashare.com/jsjobsdata/data/employer/comp_790/logo/war%20child.jpg https://www.ugashare.com/jobs/ TEMPORARY Kampala Kampala 00256 Uganda Professional Services Accounting & Finance, Social Services & Nonprofit, Business Operations 2026-02-23T17:00:00+00:00 8 War Child Holland (WCH), now War Child Alliance (WCA) is an independent and impartial international non-governmental organization investing in a peaceful future for children and young people affected by armed conflict. War Child works in 14 countries to improve the resilience and well-being of children, delivering vital child protection, education and psycho-social support. Control and Compliance (30%) - Responsible for ensuring full compliance with donor requirements and WCH policies and for providing management with all financial and compliance administrative aspects of projects while adhering to local laws and regulations.
- Support the FM Plan, perform and report on internal verifications to ensure that financial control, financial guidelines of donor requirements and other control procedures are in place and properly implemented and managed in the organization.
- Performing procedures to identify occurrence of financial errors (poor/lack of proper supporting documents, miscoding, non-compliance with WCH’s delegation authority, procurement threshold, incurring excess expenditure without prior approval, non-compliance with donor requirements) or fraud (theft, bribery, forgery, misuse of assets, etc.) and bringing any findings to the attention of the FM and the senior management (CD, PM & OM).
- Review thoroughly all financial documents of projects funded by major donors and ensure the expenditure incurred fully comply with donor requirements before any donor audit takes place.
- Ensure compliance with all tax liabilities.
Donor Grant Management & Financial Reporting (30%) - Assist the FM with the management of donor funds and timely production of donor reports, internal quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Assist budget holders with preparation of donor and organizational budgets; ensure compliance with donor regulations.
- Assist the FM in the process of obtaining explanations of variances between budget and actual spending, income etc.
- Coordinate with the relevant programme staff and ensure monthly review of BvAs and incorporate feedback
Partnership and Engagement (30%) - Review financial reports and transactions provided by the partner on a timely basis, and provide feedback to partners (as required) and keep PM and FM, RFA informed
- Support and maintaining proactive links with partners to ensure compliance Donor requirements, WCH policies and national laws.
- Provide support, supervision and oversight function of partners compliance to ensure that the overall project implementation complies with donor and WCH regulations and policies;
- Work closely with the implementing partner finance/Grants team to ensure compliance by providing trainings and regular technical assistances and assist with budgetary and finance needs.
- Participate in the assessment of the financial management capacity of WCH’s partners, identifying capacity gaps on annual basis, recommend actions to address the gaps and make follow ups with relevant staff for timely implementation.
- Review partners’ external audit reports and following up any issues raised in the audit reports.
- Make recommendations to the FM and Management on the performance of WCH’s partners with special focus on the key areas that require management attention for immediate improvement (findings rated as high risk).
- Assess the finance skills of both finance and key non-finance staff of partner organizations by using the partner assessment tool and other relevant tools.
- Preparation of monthly cash flow and ensuring adequate monetary levels of partners.
Capacity Building (10%) - Support the FM train and develop the capacity of WCH’s finance teams to ensure that a good standard of financial management is maintained
- Under take financial training of budget-holders, to assist them in enforcing financial controls & making decisions based on financial reports.
Other financial duties and general systems support - Support training of staff in procurement, budget management and systems policies and procedures as appropriate.
- Adhere to the standards of conduct outlined in Code of Conduct (CoC) with Associated Policies; the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking Policy.
- Support and promote the standards outlined in the WCH and donor Code of Conduct and related policies to the team.
- Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the PM, FM, RFA and Country Director.
- Ensuring full compliance with donor requirements and WCH policies.
- Providing management with all financial and compliance administrative aspects of projects.
- Adhering to local laws and regulations.
- Supporting the FM Plan, performing and reporting on internal verifications.
- Identifying financial errors and fraud.
- Reviewing financial documents of projects funded by major donors.
- Ensuring compliance with all tax liabilities.
- Assisting the FM with the management of donor funds and timely production of donor reports, internal quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Assisting budget holders with preparation of donor and organizational budgets.
- Assisting the FM in obtaining explanations of variances between budget and actual spending.
- Coordinating with relevant programme staff for monthly review of BvAs.
- Reviewing financial reports and transactions provided by partners.
- Supporting and maintaining proactive links with partners.
- Providing support, supervision and oversight of partners' compliance.
- Working closely with implementing partner finance/Grants teams.
- Participating in the assessment of the financial management capacity of WCH’s partners.
- Reviewing partners’ external audit reports.
- Making recommendations to the FM and Management on partner performance.
- Assessing the finance skills of partner organizations' staff.
- Preparation of monthly cash flow and ensuring adequate monetary levels of partners.
- Supporting the FM to train and develop the capacity of WCH’s finance teams.
- Undertaking financial training of budget-holders.
- Supporting training of staff in procurement, budget management and systems policies and procedures.
- Adhering to the standards of conduct outlined in Code of Conduct (CoC) with Associated Policies; the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking Policy.
- Supporting and promoting the standards outlined in the WCH and donor Code of Conduct and related policies.
- Undertaking other related duties as may reasonably be assigned.
- Financial control
- Donor compliance
- Financial reporting
- Budget management
- Internal verification
- Fraud detection
- Tax compliance
- Partnership management
- Capacity building
- Procurement training
- Systems policies and procedures
- Adherence to codes of conduct
- Child safeguarding
- Anti-trafficking policies
- Experience in financial control and compliance.
- Knowledge of donor requirements and WCH policies.
- Understanding of local laws and regulations.
- Ability to perform and report on internal verifications.
- Skills in identifying financial errors and fraud.
- Experience in reviewing financial documents and ensuring donor compliance.
- Knowledge of tax liabilities.
- Experience in donor grant management and financial reporting.
- Ability to assist with budget preparation and ensure donor compliance.
- Experience in coordinating with programme staff for BvA reviews.
- Experience in reviewing partner financial reports and transactions.
- Ability to support and maintain links with partners.
- Experience in providing support, supervision, and oversight of partner compliance.
- Experience in working with implementing partner finance/Grants teams.
- Experience in assessing financial management capacity of partners.
- Ability to review partners’ external audit reports.
- Experience in assessing finance skills of partner staff.
- Experience in preparing monthly cash flow.
- Experience in training finance teams.
- Experience in training budget-holders.
- Ability to support training of staff in procurement, budget management and systems policies and procedures.
- Adherence to Code of Conduct (CoC) with Associated Policies, Child Safeguarding Policy and Anti-Trafficking Policy.
JOB-69903a33ed6b4 Vacancy title:
Senior Finance and Compliance Officer ( Temporary Position) Jobs at:
War Child Deadline of this Job:
Monday, February 23 2026 Duty Station:
Kampala | Kampala Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, February 14 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed JOB DETAILS:
War Child Holland (WCH), now War Child Alliance (WCA) is an independent and impartial international non-governmental organization investing in a peaceful future for children and young people affected by armed conflict. War Child works in 14 countries to improve the resilience and well-being of children, delivering vital child protection, education and psycho-social support. Control and Compliance (30%) - Responsible for ensuring full compliance with donor requirements and WCH policies and for providing management with all financial and compliance administrative aspects of projects while adhering to local laws and regulations.
- Support the FM Plan, perform and report on internal verifications to ensure that financial control, financial guidelines of donor requirements and other control procedures are in place and properly implemented and managed in the organization.
- Performing procedures to identify occurrence of financial errors (poor/lack of proper supporting documents, miscoding, non-compliance with WCH’s delegation authority, procurement threshold, incurring excess expenditure without prior approval, non-compliance with donor requirements) or fraud (theft, bribery, forgery, misuse of assets, etc.) and bringing any findings to the attention of the FM and the senior management (CD, PM & OM).
- Review thoroughly all financial documents of projects funded by major donors and ensure the expenditure incurred fully comply with donor requirements before any donor audit takes place.
- Ensure compliance with all tax liabilities.
Donor Grant Management & Financial Reporting (30%) - Assist the FM with the management of donor funds and timely production of donor reports, internal quarterly and annual financial reports.
- Assist budget holders with preparation of donor and organizational budgets; ensure compliance with donor regulations.
- Assist the FM in the process of obtaining explanations of variances between budget and actual spending, income etc.
- Coordinate with the relevant programme staff and ensure monthly review of BvAs and incorporate feedback
Partnership and Engagement (30%) - Review financial reports and transactions provided by the partner on a timely basis, and provide feedback to partners (as required) and keep PM and FM, RFA informed
- Support and maintaining proactive links with partners to ensure compliance Donor requirements, WCH policies and national laws.
- Provide support, supervision and oversight function of partners compliance to ensure that the overall project implementation complies with donor and WCH regulations and policies;
- Work closely with the implementing partner finance/Grants team to ensure compliance by providing trainings and regular technical assistances and assist with budgetary and finance needs.
- Participate in the assessment of the financial management capacity of WCH’s partners, identifying capacity gaps on annual basis, recommend actions to address the gaps and make follow ups with relevant staff for timely implementation.
- Review partners’ external audit reports and following up any issues raised in the audit reports.
- Make recommendations to the FM and Management on the performance of WCH’s partners with special focus on the key areas that require management attention for immediate improvement (findings rated as high risk).
- Assess the finance skills of both finance and key non-finance staff of partner organizations by using the partner assessment tool and other relevant tools.
- Preparation of monthly cash flow and ensuring adequate monetary levels of partners.
Capacity Building (10%) - Support the FM train and develop the capacity of WCH’s finance teams to ensure that a good standard of financial management is maintained
- Under take financial training of budget-holders, to assist them in enforcing financial controls & making decisions based on financial reports.
Other financial duties and general systems support - Support training of staff in procurement, budget management and systems policies and procedures as appropriate.
- Adhere to the standards of conduct outlined in Code of Conduct (CoC) with Associated Policies; the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking Policy.
- Support and promote the standards outlined in the WCH and donor Code of Conduct and related policies to the team.
- Undertake other related duties as may reasonably be assigned by the PM, FM, RFA and Country Director.
Work Hours: 8 Experience in Months: 36 Level of Education: bachelor degree Job application procedure
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