{"id":3635213,"url":"https://alion.io/job/frontieri-consult-finance-manager","title":"Finance Manager","company":{"id":3899134,"name":"Frontieri Consult","domain":"frontieri.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/frontieri-consult","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Addis Ababa, Ethiopia"],"countries":["ET"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":65000,"max":80000,"currency":"ETB","period":"month","gross":true,"usd_annual":6024},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-02T18:51:58Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T18:51:58Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Salary Range (65,000 To 80,000 ETB)\nLocation: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia\nReports to: Chief Executive Officer\nEmployment Type: Full-time\nThe Opportunity\nAs Finance Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring effective financial management, reliable accounting, sound cash planning and robust financial controls across Frontieri's operations. The role combines strategic financial planning with hands-on oversight in a project-based consulting business.\nYou will work closely with business development, technical and delivery teams, People and Operations, and country office colleagues to ensure that financial decisions support the firm's operational priorities and business objectives.\nYour responsibilities will extend from project costing and pricing through project delivery, financial reporting, invoicing and collection. You will also oversee the firm's administrative costs, payroll, treasury, assets and statutory finance activities. You will lead the effective implementation and continuous improvement of the Finance Operating Model, strengthen the capacity of the Finance team, and ensure that financial information supports timely and informed management decisions.\nWhat You Will Lead\nFinancial Planning and Advice: Develop annual budgets and rolling forecasts that integrate project demand, staffing requirements, corporate costs and anticipated revenue. Analyze financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and provide timely financial advice and recommendations to management.\nCosting and Commercial Control: Oversee project costing and pricing within the firm's approval framework. Review project delivery assumptions, cost structures, profit margins and payment terms, and provide financial assessments before contractual and commercial commitments are made.\nProject Financial Management: Work closely with project directors and delivery teams to establish and maintain project budgets, monitor actual and committed costs, forecast project completion costs, and identify and address potential budget overruns and financial risks.\nRevenue and Working Capital Management: Ensure accurate revenue recognition and proper management of client receivables. Oversee invoicing and collection processes, maintain cash flow forecasts, monitor working capital requirements, and recommend appropriate funding and payment management strategies.\nAccounting and Financial Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely accounting records, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, monthly and annual financial statements, tax reporting, statutory compliance and audit coordination across the firm's relevant operations.\nCorporate and Field Finance Management: Oversee payroll and payment controls, staff advances, payments to consultants and fieldworkers, administrative expenditures, asset management and other corporate financial commitments. Ensure that expenditures are properly authorized, documented and aligned with operational requirements.\nFinancial Controls and Compliance: Establish, implement and monitor effective internal financial controls, financial policies and procedures, risk management measures and appropriate segregation of financial duties. Ensure compliance with applicable financial regulations, tax requirements and accounting standards.\nPeople and Systems Management: Lead, supervise and develop the Finance team, strengthen financial management systems and processes, improve financial reporting practices, clarify roles and responsibilities, and promote accountability and efficiency within the Finance function.\nSuccess in this role will be reflected in reliable financial information, timely financial reporting, disciplined project and corporate financial management, effective cash flow management, and a Finance function that enables efficient organizational and project delivery while maintaining strong financial governance and professional standards.\nRequirements\nEssential Qualifications and Experience\nA bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Accounting and Finance, or a closely related discipline, with strong competence in financial reporting, accounting and financial controls.\nAt least 10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in finance and accounting, including a minimum of five years in a finance management or finance team leadership position.\nDemonstrated practical experience in project or contract accounting, financial planning and budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, financial reporting and financial close within consulting, research, professional services or a comparable project-based organization.\nStrong commercial judgment and demonstrated experience translating project plans, staffing requirements and delivery commitments into reliable financial estimates, budgets and cost projections.\nProven experience overseeing financial controls, with strong working knowledge of Ethiopian tax requirements and demonstrated experience coordinating external audits, tax advisers and improvements to financial processes and systems.\nAbility to manage Ethiopian accounting and tax compliance, obtain qualified professional advice when required, and coordinate financial and regulatory requirements across Frontieri's operations in Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan.\nStrong spreadsheet skills and proficiency in accounting software, particularly Peachtree. Excellent written and spoken English, with the ability to prepare high-quality financial reports, provide clear financial insights and communicate financial issues effectively to non-finance colleagues.\nDemonstrated professional integrity, discretion and accountability, with the ability to challenge unsupported financial assumptions constructively, make evidence-based recommendations and develop the capacity of finance personnel.\n\nHow to apply\nInterested and qualified applicants are invited to submit their updated CV to .\nPlease use Finance Manager – Frontieri Consult PLC as the subject line of your email.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5968,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Ethiopia","iso":"ET","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Market Research","Management Consulting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-02T20:57:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["seen:5","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-08T05:47:12Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":6024,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/frontieri-consult-finance-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/frontieri-consult-finance-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-08T15:03:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":31851,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-09T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3899134},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3899134"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ffrontieri-consult-finance-manager"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Ffrontieri-consult-finance-manager"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Ffrontieri-consult-finance-manager"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/frontieri-consult-finance-manager\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ffrontieri-consult-finance-manager"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3635213}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"frontieri.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3635213},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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