Médecins du Monde - France (MdM-F) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care.

Main Mission

• Supervise and centralise the financial management of the mission.
• Ensure compliance with MdM deadlines, procedures and policies, donor rules, local legislation, and MoUs with partners in the specialist area.
• Lead/supervise teams, directly or indirectly (line or operational management) and/or support partners.
• Provide technical support to operational staff on financial management.
• Allocate 50% of working time to field office visits to ensure proper financial oversight, training, and compliance.

Main Activities

• Monitor implementation of financial and cash management procedures of the mission and/or partners.
• Communicate, advise, and provide support to teams (MdM or partners) in understanding the financial framework.
• Provide technical support to operational staff, on-site financial staff, and/or partners.
• Contribute to the development of the framework, procedures, and tools; suggest adjustments.
• Provide technical supervision, capacity building, training, and support for teams (MdM and partners).
• Train field finance staff on SAGA, monthly closing, and documentation for compliance.
• Build the financial and accounting capacity of MdM and partner staff.
• Conduct monthly visits to partner offices for spot checks, financial monitoring, and capacity building.
• Engage in partner capacity assessments and contribute to partner capacity-building plans.
• Arrange and facilitate trainings for staff on financial management, compliance, and reporting requirements.
• Train logistics teams and budget holders on the proper usage of project codes for financial monitoring.
• Ensure all monthly financial closings of the coordination office are completed in line with HQ deadlines.
• Consolidate, control, and communicate accounting-related information.
• Prepare budgets (monitoring, forecast, actual) and consolidate mission budgets.
• Integrate headquarters’ costs.
• Monitor financial plan and check allocations (accounting and budget codes).
• Alert operational staff and line managers to discrepancies in consumption and financial risks.
• Manage SAGA configurations.
• Supervise cash management for the mission (cash flow, banks, internal transfers).
• Consolidate supply requests and prepare overall mission supply requests.
• Participate in writing donor reports, funding requests, amendments.
• Contribute to audit management (prepare documents, respond to auditors, follow up recommendations).
• Monitor legal and fiscal framework.
• Supervise archiving of accounting and financial documents.
• May perform administrative officer tasks (bookkeeping, monthly closing, paying suppliers, administrative management).
• Act as technical representative of MdM with authorities, partners, and other NGOs.
• Draft activity reports.

Management

• Manage and lead a team (information, objectives, monitoring, leave, recruitment, discipline, security, training, skills management).
• Plan and monitor activities and implement corrective actions.
• Advise, arbitrate, and support measures in case of difficulties, malfunctions, or incidents.
• Support and supervise training initiatives across MdM and partner staff to strengthen financial and administrative management skills.

Main Skills

Technical Skills

• Master accounting and financial procedures (MdM and donors).
• Summarise and communicate MdM and donor financial/accounting procedures.
• Understand and interpret legal and fiscal frameworks.
• Proficient in Excel and Microsoft Office Pack.
• Proficient in field accounting software (SAGA).
• Analyse discrepancies between forecasts and actuals, interpret and contextualise them, identify causes/risks, and report.
• Analyse and communicate accounting and budgetary information.
• Read, construct, analyse budgets and carry out budget monitoring.
• Share professional expertise.
• Identify training needs, train staff, and facilitate knowledge transfer.
• Organise and prioritise activities, adapt planning to changing priorities.
• Work in a team.
• Draft and format professional documents (notes, reports, etc.).
• Master the coordination language (English, Dari & Pushto).

Management Skills

• Take decisions and arbitrate.
• Draft action plans, follow up indicators and results.
• Organise activities/objectives, distribute workload.
• Communicate effectively with team.
• Assess and develop colleagues’ skills.

Training & Experience Required

• University degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration in the relevant field
• 4 - 6 years of experience in financial and/or accounting management preferably with humanitarian non-governmental organizations required.
• Any relevant training attended

The interested candidates should submit their applications with the updated CV, motivation letter, including references details to the following email – recruitment.afghanistan@medecinsdumonde.net – no later than the closing date.

The reference Finance Advisor must be stated in the application subject to be valid. If you do not clearly state the position for which you are applying & attach the required diploma & other supporting documents, your application may not be considered.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Please note that MDM-F does not reimburse transportation cost if applicants are asked for interview or a test.

MDM-F does not charge fee at any stage of its recruitment process. All applications are free for all candidates, and no one should require any payment or compensation during the recruitment process.