Project Finance Officer

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Finance Officer

Location: Abuja
Contract Type: National contract
Expected start date: July 1, 2026.

Project Background

• SNV in Nigeria is currently seeking applicants for a full-time position as Project Finance Officer on its Soil Value Project.
• The project is implemented by IFDC (lead of consortium), SNV, and Wageningen University, together with several leading knowledge partners Soil Values project aims to support the large-scale adoption of proven soil health technologies and approaches, ensuring social inclusion, that improve soil fertility on 2.0 million hectares of arable land for 1.5 million smallholder food producers in 40 watersheds.
• The programme seeks to sustainably improve soil health to boost agricultural productivity and resilience, particularly for smallholder farmers in the Sahel, including marginalised groups.
• It focuses on three main areas: promoting agroecology, developing inclusive markets and finance, and fostering supportive institutional environments. SNV is responsible for integrating community and landscape approaches, combining local knowledge with nature-based and external solutions to improve soil fertility and water conservation through participatory, community-driven watershed management.
• The Dutch government, through its Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS), has funded a ten-year “Soil Values” programme (2024-2033) in Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria and Mali.

Job Description

• The Project Finance Officer (PFO) will also connect to SNV global concerning the operational systems (SAP By Design) as well as the invoicing of SNV-back stoppers and centrally recruited consultants.
• S/he anticipates deadlines of SNV internal planning and reporting (Monthly, PRR, Yearly) and external reporting to IFDC. S/he advises the Multi Country Project Manager on all finance, administrative and contractual issues that arise in the implementation of programme.
• The Project Finance Officer (PFO) shall coordinate, manage the financial and administrative activities of the programme putting into consideration the requirements of the consortium (organised around the consortium Governance Agreement, the sub-agreement IFDC-SNV and the DGIS grant decision).
• Both regulation of the programme as well as SNV’s organisational policy and procedures should be followed. S/he orients the activities and deliverables of the finance and administration teams of SNV back offices in the four (4) countries in order to be on top of finance and administrative compliance and budget monitoring.
• It is planned that the Project Finance Officer (PFO) will be based in Abuja, with regular travel to the other countries of the project.
• The Project Finance Officer (PFO) who will be responsible for the overall finance coordination of the programme across the four countries. S/he works under direct supervision of the Country Finance Manager for Nigeria. The PFO will work closely with the Country Finance Officers, and the SNV’s Country Finance Managers, in the other three (3) countries in SNV’s domain of intervention in the programme.

Financial Management:

• Ensure timely financial process, adequate financial records, and complete disclosure of financial transaction to meet reporting requirement of IFDC.
• Advise timely and pro-actively the Chief Component Lead/MC Programme Manager on all financial issues related to the programme.
• Maintain adequate internal control system for programme resources.
• Ensures all necessary financial accounting activities and checks are executed accurately, completely and timely (incl. tax requirements, intercompany reconciliation) and the complete and correct allocation of costs and time.
• Coordinate the implementation of SNV-Soil Values finance and administrative manual instructions in all SNV countries of Soil Values, and if needed propose improvements.
• Maintain strong programme financial management system in line with SNV financial policies, donor rules (IFDC/DGIS) and local government regulations in all countries.
• Provide all needed information to SNV-auditors, IFDC-auditors and eventually DGIS- auditors under supervision of the Chief Component Lead/MC Programme Manager.

Budget Management, planning and reporting:

• Monitor monthly the gross contribution of the programme for SNV and propose actions to improve performance if needed.
• Prepare multi-annual and annual budgets in collaboration with the countries.
• Advise timely and pro-actively the MC Project Manager on all budget management issues related to the programme.
• Consolidate timely and, as per Project Management Team instruction, monthly and quarterly country finance reports for submission to IFDC after approval of the MC Project Manager.

Sub-grant & consultancy contract Management:

• Maintain a tracking sheet to monitor, inform and ask for action of MC Project Manager in case of issues that needs his/her attention.
• Monitor & control all Sub-grants and consultancy contracts that are proposed.
• Provide training and coaching to SNV staff on sub-grant and contract management.
• Monitor the timely payments of these sub-grants and consultancy contracts.
• Advise timely and pro-actively the MC Project Manager on all the sub-grant and consultancy contracts issues related to the programme.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting or a related field
• Proven experience in planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting and financial management of a programme.
• Experience in financial administration, accounting or similar role in large donor-funded projects or multi-country programmes in I(NGO) or private sector setting with an annual Budget of more than 1M Euro.
• At least seven years of experience in financial administration, accounting or similar role
• Knowledge of Advanced Excel and Accounting Software, preferably SAP.
• Excellent intercultural leadership, teamwork, coaching, communication, networking and organizational skills.
• Written and Oral fluency in both English and in French, will be an advantage.
• Ability to travel in a context of insecurity.

Additional Information:

• Expected start date: July 1, 2026.
• Location: Abuja, Nigeria, with regular travel to other countries, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali, where project is being implemented
• Initial contract duration: 2 years with possibility of extension
• Type of contract: Full time on national contract