Regional Finance Officer

**Descrizione azienda**:
We support people in overcoming emergencies and we strive to guarantee that everyone can have a decent and dignified life as well as opportunities and a better future. We work in more than 20 countries around the world, including in Italy, with more than 166 emergency, humanitarian aid and development projects. Our activities mainly involve women, girls and young people, actors of change in every community for a fairer and more inclusive world.

We operate in several natural and man-made crisis in various regions of the world. The emergency response is composed by multi-sectorial interventions comprising of WASH, EiE, CVA, Food Security, Protection, and others. We operate also in protracted crisis with provision of humanitarian aid through a prevention, emergency relief and rehabilitation approach. In the last 4 years we have strengthened the regions and the countries where we have been working, we have created new programs, developed new quality and compliance systems and now we need new people who want to join us to build the world we want in the coming years. We believe in a world where everyone has equal opportunities and rights and we work everyday to make it happens. Join us.

**Posizione**:
**Position**:Regional Finance Officer (RFO) - Middle East and Eurasia

**Reporting Relationship**:Regional Finance Manager (RFM) and Head of Administration Unit

**Location**: Milano or Bologna; possibility of remote working from Italy or abroad

**Deadline**: 12/08/2025

**Starting date**: ASAP

**Purpose of the Role**

WeWorld is looking for a Regional Finance Officer (RFO) - Middle East and Eurasia. The Regional Finance Officer (RFO) works under the direction of the Head of Administration Unit (HoAU) and Regional Finance Manager (RFM), to ensure correctness and compliance of financial reporting, archive of projects’ archive and accounting, and to collaborate in the development of processes, monitoring and capacity building of finance staff in the countries within Middle East and Eurasia regions.

**Main tasks and ResponsIbilitieS**

**Accounting**:

- Support the RFM in performing checks to the Countries’ accounting and verification of periodic reconciliations according to WeWorld procedures Support the RFM in keeping accounts for the part under regional responsibilities and for any necessary set-up for the accounting software

**Financial Reporting & Audit**:

- Collect supporting documents for the expenses incurred at HQ level where necessary for external controls
- Perform controls on documents archived in the countries
- Provide support to the RFM to prepare expenditures verifications and external audits of the projects
- Support the RFM in verifying the financial reports of projects prepared by the country staff, checking the compliance with donors’ and internal rules and monitor external and internal deadlines

**Monitoring & Capacity Building**
- Monitoring and capacity building missions on the field are requested
- Support the RFM in training, inductions and capacity building of finance staff
- Support the RFM in providing technical advice on finance and administrative matters to the countries

Any related or eventual additional activities in relation to the tasks can be arranged at a later stage, based on the actual needs

**Requisiti**:
**ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS**

**Qualifications and Knowledge**:

- Degree in Economics, Political Science or related fields, or equivalent
- Fluency in Italian and English

**Professional Experience**:

- At least 2 years of relevant work experience in a finance/accounting role in the NGO sector

**Skills and Abilities**
- Accountancy skills
- Excellent computer skills including full working knowledge MS Office and Internet
- Problem-solver approach with demonstrated resourcefulness in setting priorities and creating efficiencies
- Proven organizational skills and ability to effectively manage multiple tasks while fostering quality, team spirit and positive working relationships with colleagues
- Strong commitment to the mission of WeWorld, genuine interest for international cooperation development topics
- Demonstrates integrity by modelling the NGO values and ethical standards; displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

**DESIDERABLE REQUIREMENTS**
- Previous experiences at HQ or Regional level would be considered an asset
- Previous experience on the field, in Humanitarian or Development projects, would be considered an asset

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