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Marie-Jocelyne Nshimirimana is finance coordinator for one of MSF’s biggest operations worldwide in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Marie-Jocelyne Nshimirimana is the finance coordinator for one of MSF’s biggest operations worldwide. Democratic Republic of Congo, January 2022.
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Finance Coordinator

Marie-Jocelyne Nshimirimana is the finance coordinator for one of MSF’s biggest operations worldwide. Democratic Republic of Congo, January 2022.
© Franck Ngonga/MSF
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The Finance Coordinator plays a crucial role in overseeing and managing the financial operations of our programmes.

Finance Coordinators ensure accurate and transparent financial information is provided to MSF and external parties.

From coordinating funding agreements with donors to managing treasury operations and providing regular financial indicators, they ensure the smooth financial functioning of programmes. Additionally, they lead and develop the finance team, alerting key staff on financial responsibilities, and ensuring compliance with MSF policies and legal requirements.

This role requires strong leadership, strategic vision, and financial management skills, as well as experience in budgeting and team management, preferably in humanitarian or NGO contexts.

This is an exciting and diverse role involving some or all of the following:

Responsibilities:

  • Define, coordinate, and monitor the implementation and management of finance strategies, policies, internal control, and all financial administrative and legal issues of the programme.
  • Ensure accurate, transparent, timely, and reliable financial information is provided to MSF and third parties on resource allocation in projects.
  • Participate in defining programme objectives and strategies, planning, implementing, and monitoring financial operational and budget needs.
  • Assess and mitigate financial risks, ensuring relevant organisational setup and reliable internal control system.
  • Ensure implementation and respect of MSF policies, aligned with legal requirements and national framework.
  • Manage funding agreements with donors, coordinating proposals, financial reports, and donor contracts.
  • Coordinate efficient treasury management and accounting, defining minimum cash levels, managing bank accounts, and monitoring payments.
  • Provide regular indicators to monitor the programme's financial health, cost analysis, and expense vs. budget analysis.
  • Manage, supervise, and develop the finance team, including coaching, training, and motivating.
  • Alert key staff on financial risks and responsibilities.
  • Ensure proper application of human resources policies related to finance activities.
  • Coordinate and oversee monthly and yearly closing of accounts to reflect the programme's financial reality.

    Depending on our activities and needs, your responsibilities may be adapted and evolve according to the specific projects.

    You will not face these challenges alone; other MSF team members, both international and locally hired staff, will provide technical support, including comprehensive guidelines and protocols.

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Marie-Jocelyne Nshimirimana is finance coordinator for one of MSF’s biggest operations worldwide in Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Requirements:

  • Essential degree in Economics/Finances; some MSF offices require higher vocational training in Business Administration/MBA.
  • Two years' experience in budget management and team management.
  • Programme working language essential; for OCG, English fluency required.
  • Computer literacy (Word, Excel, ERP, internet).

Assets:

  • Experience in MSF or other NGOs.
  • Experience in low- and middle-income countries.
  • Strong competencies in strategic vision, leadership, people management and development, service orientation, teamwork, and cooperation.
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Work with MSF

In 2024, 67,000 people worked with Médecins Sans Frontières and contributed to giving lifesaving medical assistance to people who would otherwise be denied access to healthcare, clean water and shelter.

A large majority of MSF staff, about 90 per cent, are locally hired in their country of residence, working for MSF assistance programmes in proximity with the people and communities we support, or in MSF offices around the world.  

About 10 per cent of people working for MSF are internationally mobile staff, specialists or senior managers hired on fixed-term contracts to carry out assignments in countries of intervention.  

MSF doesn’t employ only doctors and nurses. To fulfill our social mission, we recruit employees from a large range of professions in the medical, finance, logistics, IT, administration, human resources, and communications fields, and in other areas.  

If you would like to work with MSF, you will find information about our behaviour commitments, minimum requirements, our recruitment processes and our current international job vacancies.  

To know more about MSF’s remuneration policies, you can also visit msf.org/rewards.

MSF has section offices in 24 countries and 18 MSF branch offices. View the worldwide map of MSF offices.

Our behavioural commitments

The integrity of our organisation is upheld by the good conduct of each individual staff member, in any location, with full respect for the communities we serve.

When you join us, we expect you to commit to our social mission and Charter; helping to deliver medical assistance to populations in distress and to people affected by natural or man-made disasters. 

For us, this means not tolerating any behaviour from our staff that exploits the vulnerability of others, or of employees taking advantage of their position for personal gain. 

We do not tolerate any physical or psychological abuse against individuals, sexual harassment, sexual relations with minors, or any behaviour that does not respect human dignity. 

MSF promotes a working environment free of harassment and abuse. Our leadership has unequivocally committed to fight abuse and to reinforce mechanisms and procedures to prevent and address it. 

Depuis janvier 2014, MSF travaille dans le centre de santé de Mamadou M’Baiki - situé dans le quartier de PK5, à Bangui - où nous offrons des soins de santé primaire aux enfants âgés de moins de 15 ans. Pendant le pic annuel de paludisme, le centre de santé de Mamadou M’Baiki peut recevoir jusqu'à 800 enfants par semaine. En 2014, sur nos différents projets menés dans le quartier de PK5 (centre de santé + dispensaires mobiles à la grande mosquée et à Kpéténé), nous avons dispensé près de 40 000 consultations (29% de cas de paludisme). <br/> 

Since January 2014, MSF has been working in Mamadou M'Baiki health center - located in the PK5 district in Bangui - where we offer primary health care to children under 15. During the annual malaria peak, Mamadou M'Baiki health center can receive up to 800 children a week. In 2014, on our various projects in the PK5 area (health center + mobile clinics at the Grand Mosque and Kpéténé area) we have provided almost 40,000 consultations (29% for malaria cases).
 *** Local Caption *** En RCA, le contexte sanitaire  est catastrophique, les indicateurs particulièrement dégradés : le paludisme (1ère cause de morbidité et mortalité) est endémique, chaque enfant âgé de moins de 5 ans fait en moyenne deux crises par an. La couverture vaccinale est très basse. Le pays possède la plus haute prévalence de VIH-Sida des pays d’Afrique Centrale (entre 5 et 10% suivant les zones). Le système de santé offre un accès aux soins limité et coûteux, les ressources humaines qualifiées manquent, les problèmes d’approvisionnement en médicaments sont récurrents. Dans ce pays à l’Etat fantôme, les opérations menées par MSF se substituent à celles du ministère de la Santé.<br/>

In CAR, health situation is catastrophic, indicators particularly degraded: malaria (first cause of morbidity and mortality) is endemic, every child under 5 years has an average of two attacks per year. Vaccination coverage is very low. The country has the highest prevalence of HIV-AIDS among the countries of Central Africa (between 5 and 10% depending on the area). The health system offers limited and expensive access to care, skilled medical human resources are lacking, drug supply problems are recurrent. In this country without State, MSF operations substitute those of the MOH.
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