Finance Director

Role Overview

The Finance Director is responsible for the financial management, compliance, and reporting of the NiWEMA programme across its full five-year life and 750,000-participant scope. The role involves managing a complex financial architecture that includes LMS platform costs, implementing partner disbursements, field operations expenditure, trainer payments, venue costs, and cluster-level financial tracking alongside central programme costs.

Responsibilities

• Lead all financial management activities for NiWEMA, including multi-year budgeting, forecasting, expenditure tracking, and financial reporting across both online and physical delivery streams.
• Manage financial disbursements to implementing partners for physical training delivery, ensuring compliance with sub-grant or service contract requirements and maintaining clear audit trails.
• Develop and implement financial tracking systems for cluster-based programme activities, ensuring expenditure can be disaggregated by delivery modality, participation model, and geographic location as required by the funder.
• Ensure full compliance with funder financial requirements, including adherence to approved budgets, procurement procedures, and financial reporting schedules.
• Prepare accurate and timely financial reports and reconciliations for the funder, EDC leadership, and the Project Director.
• Manage the programme's cash flow, fund requests, and disbursements, maintaining liquidity for field operations and partner payments across multiple locations.
• Oversee financial controls, internal audit readiness, and risk management across all programme expenditure, including field-level financial transactions.
• Lead internal and external audit processes, ensuring all documentation including partner financial reports is complete and compliant.
• Provide financial guidance and capacity building to programme staff and implementing partners on budget management and compliance requirements.
• Manage WHT and other applicable tax obligations across programme financial transactions in compliance with Nigerian law.
• Provide accurate information to the implementing partner.
• Any other related task on the engagement.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Finance, Business Administration or Management
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. ACA, ACCA, or ICAN professional qualification required.
• Minimum of 15 years' progressive financial management experience, with at least 3 years managing finances for large-scale donor-funded programmes.
• Demonstrated experience managing sub-grant or implementing partner financial relationships.
• Strong knowledge of Nigerian financial regulations, tax obligations, and donor financial compliance frameworks.
• Experience managing budgets with both digital/platform cost components and field operations expenditure.
• Proficiency in financial management software and donor reporting systems

How to Apply Please submit a cover letter and your CV to niwemaproject@pau.edu.ng, using the Job Title as subject line E.g "Project Director".