Finance Manager Job Tangaza University

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Position Summary:

• The Finance Manager provides strategic and operational leadership to the Finance Department, ensuring effective, professional,
• and customer-oriented financial services to Tangaza University and its stakeholders. The role is responsible for safeguarding
• financial integrity, developing and implementing financial strategies, ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory
• requirements, and promoting sustainable financial management practices. The Finance Manager oversees all aspects of
• financial planning, reporting, control, and resource utilization to ensure, long-term financial viability.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the financial health of TU by optimizing resource allocation and utilization of assets.
• Support income generation initiatives and identify opportunities for improving efficiency and expanding revenue streams.
• Ensure systems, policies, and controls are in place to uphold the highest standards of financial integrity.
• Provide effective leadership and management of the Financial Department, ensuring high quality customer focused services
• that support and enable the delivery of Tangaza’s priorities.
• Oversee preparation of accurate and timely financial and management reports, ensuring monthly, quarterly, and annual
• results are monitored and shared with relevant governance bodies.
• Provide financial leadership and advice to Directors, Deans, and Heads of Departments, ensuring they understand the
• financial implications of decisions.
• Oversee internal and external audit processes, ensuring recommendations are implemented effectively.
• Lead the preparation of annual budgets and operational plans in consultation with management and budget holders.
• Presentation of period management report to the finance committee and the management board and on need basis.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS and institutional financial policies.
• Grants and donations: Oversee the setup, accounting, and reporting of donor-funded projects to ensure strict compliance
• with donor terms, including the maintenance of separate tracking systems for restricted funds.

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Qualification and Experience:

• Qualified accountant in good standing with professional board (CPA, ACCA, CA, CIMA);
• Bachelors degree in commerce, business administration or economics;
• MBA or other masters level qualification with specialization in finance, accounting or strategic management;
• Proven track record of working in the Finance Department in a complex organization, preferably an institution of higher learning
• or business organization (3-5 years);
• Strategic capability with experience in operating at a senior strategic financial management level (3-5 years);
• Demonstrate portfolio of solid achievements in previous roles;
• Ability to devise, drive and deliver a clear vision of change and take people along with them on the journey;
• Working knowledge of a range of accounting software’s and ability to interface management information systems.

Key Competencies and Skills:

• Person with high integrity, ethical standards and embracing the values of TU.
• Financial management professional able to have a bird’s eye view of the affairs of an organization.
• High motivation and commitment to driving change in a complex and diverse organization.
• Ability to create and sustain work partnerships and engage effectively with a strong senior team and work across boundaries
• internally and externally.
• Sound emotional health and ability to manage self and others when under pressure.
• Open to owning up to personal challenges and continuous learning.
• Familiarity with government funding procedures and donor financial reporting requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple funding streams and reconcile complex accounts (student accounts + government remittances).

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