International Finance Manager - Laos and Solomon Islands
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5/15/2025
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Description
Role: International Finance Manager
Location: Sepon and Vientiane, Laos
Start date: July 2025 (estimated)
Contract Duration: Initially 14 months (maternity cover), with the potential of extention depending on future funding
Accommodation: Air-conditioned en-suite room in Sepon international staff compound at nil cost, or accommodation allowance to support independent arrangements in Vientiane
Reporting to: HALO Laos Programme Manager
Role Summary
HALO is seeking an experienced International Finance Manager for the Laos and Solomon Islands programmes. The role will contribute directly to the delivery of donor funded humanitarian projects, ensuring financial and contractual accountability. The role would suit someone who is experienced working at scale and overseeing a finance team that is geographically disbursed and working in a challenging context. The successful candidate will be exceptional at working alongside others, bringing the best out of a team and pro-actively supporting the development of the finance department and wider programme teams.
About Us
HALO have been working in Laos since 2012 and now has over 1,100 staff surveying and clearing the remnants of the United States’ 1964-73 aerial bombing of Savannakhet Province, along with other UXO contamination. As a signatory to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), HALO supports the Government of the Laos PDR to comply with its treaty obligations and to serve wider government development goals. The programme is supported by a diverse donor portfolio and is currently delivering three contracts exceeding US$40 million.
HALO has been working in Solomon Islands since 2023 and employs 30 staff conducting a survey of the scale of remaining World War II contamination, funded by the U.S. State Department. The programme is working towards obtaining permission to conduct clearance operations and is preparing for future expansion subject to securing additional donor funding.
About The Role
The International Finance Manager (IFM) is a member of the senior management team with the responsibility of each programme’s finance department. They are responsible for ensuring the daily, monthly and annual financial duties are carried out in compliance with HALO’s policies, donor contracts and national finance and tax regulations. Alongside the Programme Manager, the IFM is responsible for ensuring short- and long-term financial planning is in place and for the successful delivery of donor contracts on budget. The IFM is responsible for the strategic leadership of the finance teams, developing business plans, budgets, and strategies to support the programme’s funding and overarching strategy. In addition, the IFM will ensure that the right procurement and accounting systems are in place, monitored and improved as necessary.
The role is based in Laos, with approximately 80% of time dedicated to supporting the Laos programme and 20% providing remote support to the Solomon Islands. The position will initially be based in Sepon, before transitioning to Vientiane with continued remote support and intermittent travel to Savannakhet province and, if necessary, to the Solomon Islands. Following the 14 months maternity cover, the follow-on posting will depend on capacity requirements across HALO.
*Please note that this role is based full-time in Laos, and cannot be conducted remotely*
Role Responsibilities
Financial planning and monitoring:
Essential Experience:
We reserve the right to close the advert earlier than the advertised closing date.
The HALO Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
The HALO Trust is committed to a culture that is both diverse and inclusive and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
The HALO Trust is committed to ensuring that it provides a safe and trusted environment which safeguards and promotes the welfare and wellbeing of anyone who comes into contact with, or is part of, the Charity, with a zero-tolerance approach to behaviours which challenge this.
Location: Sepon and Vientiane, Laos
Start date: July 2025 (estimated)
Contract Duration: Initially 14 months (maternity cover), with the potential of extention depending on future funding
Accommodation: Air-conditioned en-suite room in Sepon international staff compound at nil cost, or accommodation allowance to support independent arrangements in Vientiane
Reporting to: HALO Laos Programme Manager
Role Summary
HALO is seeking an experienced International Finance Manager for the Laos and Solomon Islands programmes. The role will contribute directly to the delivery of donor funded humanitarian projects, ensuring financial and contractual accountability. The role would suit someone who is experienced working at scale and overseeing a finance team that is geographically disbursed and working in a challenging context. The successful candidate will be exceptional at working alongside others, bringing the best out of a team and pro-actively supporting the development of the finance department and wider programme teams.
About Us
HALO have been working in Laos since 2012 and now has over 1,100 staff surveying and clearing the remnants of the United States’ 1964-73 aerial bombing of Savannakhet Province, along with other UXO contamination. As a signatory to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), HALO supports the Government of the Laos PDR to comply with its treaty obligations and to serve wider government development goals. The programme is supported by a diverse donor portfolio and is currently delivering three contracts exceeding US$40 million.
HALO has been working in Solomon Islands since 2023 and employs 30 staff conducting a survey of the scale of remaining World War II contamination, funded by the U.S. State Department. The programme is working towards obtaining permission to conduct clearance operations and is preparing for future expansion subject to securing additional donor funding.
About The Role
The International Finance Manager (IFM) is a member of the senior management team with the responsibility of each programme’s finance department. They are responsible for ensuring the daily, monthly and annual financial duties are carried out in compliance with HALO’s policies, donor contracts and national finance and tax regulations. Alongside the Programme Manager, the IFM is responsible for ensuring short- and long-term financial planning is in place and for the successful delivery of donor contracts on budget. The IFM is responsible for the strategic leadership of the finance teams, developing business plans, budgets, and strategies to support the programme’s funding and overarching strategy. In addition, the IFM will ensure that the right procurement and accounting systems are in place, monitored and improved as necessary.
The role is based in Laos, with approximately 80% of time dedicated to supporting the Laos programme and 20% providing remote support to the Solomon Islands. The position will initially be based in Sepon, before transitioning to Vientiane with continued remote support and intermittent travel to Savannakhet province and, if necessary, to the Solomon Islands. Following the 14 months maternity cover, the follow-on posting will depend on capacity requirements across HALO.
*Please note that this role is based full-time in Laos, and cannot be conducted remotely*
Role Responsibilities
Financial planning and monitoring:
- Supportthe Programme Manager in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of annual business plans and project budgets.
- Analyse and report on the programme funding position, working collaboratively to produce scenarios that ensure ongoing financial stability.
- Lead the financial monitoring and review of grants/contracts, working closely with operations to forecast and report on project costs to completion.
- Collaboratively produce project/programme budgets and forecasts utilising HALOs financial planning system (Adaptive Insights).
- Support the Programme Manager in the management of financial risk in the programme, escalating and addressing any emerging risks.
- Provide financial oversight and support to the programme, ensuring transactions are fully reconciled and discrepancies identified and corrected.
- Ensure implementation of HALOs financial and logistics policies and procedures, reviewing and reporting on compliance against the same.
- Oversee all financial accounting matters, closing the country books in accordance with agreed deadlines.
- Ensure that direct and indirect costs are allocated appropriately to projects, identifying and reporting on any shortfalls in both direct and indirect cost coverage.
- Oversee the financial management of delivery partner contracts, ensuring compliance with HALOs contractual obligations.
- Supervise the production of the payroll cycle, ensuring donor funding allocations are accurate, and calculations for salary, income tax, social security, severance, and other government levies are in accordance with legislation.
- Support the Programme Manager in ensuring compliance with all statutory legislation, e.g. tax, registration, labour law.
- Ensure that adequate banking and cash provisions are in place, set up in accordance with HALOs financial policies and that delegations of authority enable the programme to operate efficiently, particularly during periods of leave etc.
- Manage the short-term cash flow requirements of the programme, liaising with HALO HQ to facilitate cash transfers. Manage the effects of exchange rate fluctuations between local and contract currencies.
- Lead the preparation of country financial statements and donor financial reports.
- In collaboration with HALO HQ finance department, review and report on compliance against HALO policies and procedures.
- Lead the preparation for external audits, preparing schedules and documentation as and when required by auditors and/or HALO HQ finance department.
- Ensure that financial staffing capacity is fit for purpose for the needs of the programme.
- Develop the capacity and career development of finance staff, ensuring financial consistency and quality across the programme.
Essential Experience:
- Experience in financial management experience overseas
- Experience of managing personnel, mentoring and advising senior management
- Experience developing the capacity, structure and capability of teams
- Experience of ERP systems
- Financial planning and reporting
- Good understanding of financial risk management in developing countries
- Ability to implement and monitor policies and procedures in challenging environments
- Proven ability to lead, manage, motivate, and develop a team
- Interpretation and implementation of donor/client contract requirements
- Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to work in a wide variety of cultural contexts
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to coordinate activities
- Excellent literacy, numeracy, and IT skills, including data manipulation
- Fluent spoken and written English language skills
- Ability and willingness to work strategically and undertake routine administrative tasks
- Professional accounting qualification or clearly demonstrable qualified experience
- Previous work experience in Southeast Asia
- Laos language proficiency
- Knowledge of Laos labour law
- Experience in humanitarian mine action
- Local overseas allowance of $350 per month
- Shared accommodation in HALO accommodation provided at nil cost.
- 49 days of leave annually (weekend inclusive equivalent to 7 weeks of pay leave), increasing to 56 days after two years of service
- Three economy return flights to the member’s official home address (or an alternative location up to an equivalent cost)
- Comprehensive insurance package: life assurance, private medical insurance and emergency medical insurance, including evacuation and repatriation.
We reserve the right to close the advert earlier than the advertised closing date.
The HALO Trust is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
The HALO Trust is committed to a culture that is both diverse and inclusive and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
The HALO Trust is committed to ensuring that it provides a safe and trusted environment which safeguards and promotes the welfare and wellbeing of anyone who comes into contact with, or is part of, the Charity, with a zero-tolerance approach to behaviours which challenge this.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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