Finance Manager at Street Child in Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Street Child is an international charity working to help vulnerable children access education and protection while supporting families with livelihood opportunities in crisis-affected and hard-to-reach communities. Our work is grounded in practical support, strong partnerships, and a commitment to reaching children and families facing some of the toughest circumstances. Joining Street Child means contributing to an organization focused on building resilient systems and delivering meaningful impact where it is needed most.

As Finance Manager, you will play a central role in strengthening financial stewardship across the organization’s activities. This role offers the opportunity to support effective decision-making, enable strong donor accountability, and help ensure financial operations align with the organization’s mission and growth. You will work closely with senior leadership and key stakeholders to provide financial insight that supports both day-to-day operations and longer-term planning.

Responsibilities

Ensure robust financial management and reporting systems:

• Ensure that all staff use the financial system, Aqila, in place at Street Child of Nigeria to record transactions accurately and in a timely manner, providing training, review, support, and direct input as needed.
• Ensure that all month-end processes are carried out in a timely manner including month end closure processes, bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, and generating reports.
• Development of annual budgets, approved in accordance with SC budget timetable and guidelines.
• Providing reliable donor reports, Budget vs Actual reports to the Director and Programmes staff to facilitate good planning and anticipation of any changes needed to programmes delivery.
• Ensure that donor expenditure is recorded accurately and finance reports are of high quality with full supporting transaction listings reconciled to the finance system and delivered to deadlines in accordance donor requirements.
• Support donor due diligence and donor audits by provision of information required.
• Provide input as necessary for all donor budget proposals, ensuring that costs requested are complete before they are submitted to donors

Strengthening the control environment and record keeping

• Review and assess the effectiveness of internal controls and recommend changes and improvements as required, and review any improvements in internal controls recommended by auditors or donors.
• Strong financial procedures are in place to accompany all payments and improvements are made to the payments system.
• Ensure appropriate bank & cash management procedures are in place and operating effectively, including bank reconciliations for all accounts, cash counts and cash transfers to field sites**.**
• Ensure robust procurement processes are in place and being followed, working with the procurement team to make any changes needed and ensure that all staff are clear on the required procurement process.
• Developing Financial management tools, including policies and procedures as required.
• Ensure that monthly funds requisitions from HQ are robust, evidence based and submitted on time each month.

Supporting general finance & Operations

• Plan and lead the BVA analysis meetings every month.

• Ensure coherence between the programme budget and the donors' budgets.

• Procedures so as to ensure a realistic budget, accurate expenditure codification and robust budgetary steering.

• Draw up and monitor cost allocation tables for office and staff costs.

• Monitor and organise internal and external audits, assume the role of the auditor's primary contact in liaison with head office.

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field.

• 5+ years of finance management experience in nonprofit or donor-funded settings.

• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes.

• Hands-on experience with ERP systems and advanced proficiency in Excel.

• Experience working with donors, senior leadership, auditors, or program teams.

• Eligibility to work in Nigeria.

• Experience with Aqila Accounting software is a plus.

• A professional finance certification such as ACCA, CPA, or equivalent is preferred.