Employment Term:           Fixed Term (1 Year Contract)

Level:                                    National, C2

Location:                           Yangon, Myanmar

Closing Date:                   10 December 2025

“This position is opened to National Applicants only.”

The Role:

Oxfam GB is looking for Programme Finance Manager.

Job Purpose:

The position is responsible for ensuring high-quality financial management, donor compliance, and effective coordination of grant and partnership finance matters. Working closely with the Head of Finance and Operations (HoFO), Programme, Grants, and Project Finance teams, the role provides technical support in financial reporting, compliance assurance, and partner capacity strengthening. The post holder will play a key role in reviewing and consolidating donor financial reports, ensuring alignment with organizational and donor requirements, and promoting sound financial practices across projects and partners. This role is critical in maintaining financial integrity, transparency, and accountability in all programmatic and partnership activities.

This Role Report To:                  Head of Finance and Operations

Staff Reporting to this Post:    Direct line management for 4-6 staff

Key Relation/Interaction:         Work closely with the Program, Finance, Grants team and Internal and External Auditors and Head of Finance and Operations

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Accounting and Budgeting

• Provide regular, high-quality financial analysis and advice to Head of Finance and Operations, Programme Managers and Senior Leadership to inform strategic and operational decisions.
• Support programme teams with forecasting and financial planning throughout the project cycle, with assistance from grant and project finance focal points.
• Lead the development of detailed and accurate budgets for new project proposals in close coordination with Programme, Finance Coordinators, and Grants team.
• Provide technical input on cost realism, cost allocation to ensure alignment with project activities and donor requirements.
• Review proposal budgets prepared by Project Finance focal points and Grants teams, ensuring consistency and accuracy across all proposal documents.
• Ensure the timely submission of financial components of proposals and budget revisions to the Head of Finance and Operations (HoFO), with support from the Finance Coordinators, prior to submission to donors. 

Donor Financial Reporting and Compliance

• Support the Head of Finance and Operations (HoFO) in reviewing the quality and accuracy of financial reports prepared by project Finance focal, ensuring timely submission of donor financial reports in accordance with donor requirements and deadlines.
• Ensure all project and partnership expenditures comply with donor regulations, organizational policies, and financial procedures.
• Work closely with Programme, Grants and Project Finance focal points to ensure alignment and consistency between financial and narrative reports.
• Oversee financial transactions and partner financial reports to ensure compliance with donor agreements, back-donor requirements, and organizational policies.
• Ensure accurate and consistent recording of financial data in line with local accounting standards and organizational financial policies, in coordination with relevant focal points.

Monthly Financial Reporting & Budget Monitoring

• Lead the coordination and consolidation of monthly financial reports for all active projects and partnerships and promptly flag any major issues to the Head of Finance and Operations (HoFO) and Programme teams.
• Ensure the timely preparation of monthly financial reports including detailed budget versus actual (BvA) analyses and forecasts for all projects and partner grants.
• Oversee and ensure the regular execution of Monthly Financial Report (MFR) meetings with programme teams, project managers, and relevant stakeholders, with coordination support from the Finance Coordinators.
• Collaborate with Programme, Grants and Project Finance focal points to provide meaningful financial insights that support effective programme and grant management decisions.
• Perform the financial and compliance review and accountable for ensuring these reviews are conducted consistently on a monthly basis to assess budget performance, address variances, and strengthen financial accountability across both internal and partner-implemented projects.
• Make periodic and planned field visit and ensure that all donor as well as Oxfam internal policies and procedures are implemented to adequate standard.
• Ensure that minutes, key action points, and follow-up responsibilities from all MFR meetings are properly documented, tracked, and acted upon in a timely manner.

Audit Coordination and Support

• Lead preparation for internal and external audits related to programme finances, including donor-specific audits.
• Ensure timely submission of audit requirements and documentation from programme teams and finance coordinators.
• Collaborate with external auditors during financial reviews, audits, and compliance assessments, coordinating with Grants and Project Finance focal points for necessary documentation and support.
• Coordinate with auditors during field visits and desk reviews and follow up on the implementation of audit recommendations.
• Maintain a high standard of financial documentation and ensure audit readiness across all projects. 

Team Leadership and Capacity Building

• Manage the performance of line-managed staff through clear objective setting, regular performance reviews, constructive feedback, and ongoing monitoring of individual development plans.
• Line manages and mentor 4-6 staff members, ensuring clear performance expectations, effective performance management, and continuous professional development.
• Strengthen the financial capacity of programme and finance staff through coaching, mentoring, and targeted training initiatives.
• Promote a strong culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the finance team.
• Support partner organizations in strengthening their financial management capacity, ensuring proper understanding and application of donor and organizational financial rules, with support from the Finance Coordinators and Grants team.
• Support partner organizations in understanding and applying budget monitoring tools and practices, ensuring that their financial reports align with donor and organizational requirements, with support from the Programme Finance Coordinator and Grants team.

Compliance and Internal Controls

• Ensure strong internal controls are in place for all programme-related expenditures.
• Monitor the financial compliance of projects, ensuring that procurement, travel, and other costs follow internal and donor requirements.
• Contribute to the development and updating of financial procedures and systems to enhance operational efficiency and compliance.
• Deliver budget holders induction and trainings for new budget holders to ensure familiarity with Oxfam’s financial management systems, donor compliance and effective ways of working.

Safety and Security

• Complying with all security policies, procedures, directions, instructions, regulations or plans
• Taking care of their own safety and security
• Actively contributing to the development and maintenance of security management policy and procedures.

 Safeguarding

• Ensure adherence to safeguarding policies by protecting the safety and dignity of all individuals.
• Ensure completing all annual core compliance courses.
• Must report any concerns or witness or suspect any behaviour that could be in breach of the one Oxfam safeguarding policy or Oxfam Code of Conduct.

Others

• Eager and required to adhere to Oxfam’s principles and values as well as the promotion of gender justice and women's rights.
• Understanding of and commitment to adhere to equity, diversity, gender, child safety and staff health and wellbeing principles.
• In case of emergency response, perform assigned tasks to contribute to an efficient and timely emergency response activities.

What we are looking for:

• A university degree in accounting or Finance is required and an advanced degree (such as ACCA) is preferred.
• Minimum of 5–7 years of relevant experience in financial management, ideally within the INGO/NGO sector in Myanmar.
• Proven experience in donor financial reporting, proposal budget development, audit coordination, and compliance within the INGO or non-profit sector.
• Strong knowledge of major donor rules and requirements (e.g., EU, USAID, FCDO, UN).
• Skilled in implementing Oxfam’s financial policies, procedures, and good practices.
• Able to prioritize work, manage multiple tasks, and meet deadlines independently.
• Strong judgment, diplomacy, negotiation, and interpersonal skills; able to remain calm under pressure.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel, finance software, email, and Internet.
• Experienced in coaching junior and peer staff and working collaboratively in teams.
• Commitment to humanitarian principles, gender equality, and diversity.

We offer:

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Flexfam:

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future, so we’re open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. 

How to apply:

As part of your online application, please upload your up to date CV and Cover Letter explaining your suitability against the essential criteria in the job profile.  

Our values and commitment to safeguarding

Oxfam is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct; and committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults and beneficiaries with whom Oxfam GB engages. Oxfam expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment through our code of conduct. We place a high priority on ensuring that only those who share and demonstrate our values are recruited to work for us.

The post holder will undertake the appropriate level of training and is responsible for ensuring that they understand and work within the safeguarding policies of the organisation.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. Oxfam GB also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to ensuring diversity and gender equality within our organisation and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

About us

Oxfam is a global community who believe poverty isn’t inevitable. It’s an injustice that can be overcome. We are shop volunteers, women’s right activists, marathon runners, aid workers, coffee farmers, street fundraisers, goat herders, policy experts, campaigners, water engineers and more. And we won’t stop until everyone can live life without poverty for good.

Oxfam GB is a member of international confederation of 21 organisations working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. 

A thriving diverse Oxfam:

It’s people power that brings about change. To play our part as a global organisation working to overcome poverty and inequality, we need equality, diversity and inclusion across our community of staff, partners and volunteers. Together, we’re committed to becoming a more diverse workforce, better able to tackle the global challenges that face our world today.

To do that:

• We need to dismantle the unequal power structures that exist everywhere, this including Oxfam and the wider development and charity sectors.
• We need an inclusive Oxfam where everyone can bring who they are to our work and feels celebrated for the differences they bring.
• We want and need everyone, and that means we need you.