About The Role
Finance, Compliance and Risk Manager – Middle East and Northen Africa (MENA)
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Contract: 24-month fixed term contract, renewable
Salary: £38,781 + £1,865.92 monthly allowance
This in an Unaccompanied position.
Could you manage, oversee and guide our financial management, compliance, and risk across the British Red Cross programmes in the MENA region, supporting programme staff and partners, managing financial systems and reporting, ensuring adherence to policies, procedures, and grant agreements while actively identifying opportunities to improve partner systems for institutional funding access?
About the Role
The Regional Finance, Compliance, and Risk Manager for the MENA region oversees financial management, compliance, and risk across programmes, partners, offices, and staff, ensuring adherence to policies, procedures, and grant agreements. The role supports programme staff and partners, manages financial systems and reporting, trains staff on finance systems, assists with annual budgets, and identifies opportunities to improve partner systems for institutional funding access.
The Regional Finance, Compliance, and Risk Manager for the MENA will be entrusted to:
- Oversee country and regional financial processes, ensuring accurate and timely payment processing, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis for regional programmes.
- Ensure the regional financial control environment is robust and functioning effectively.
- Act as the key focal point for audit preparation and delivery.
- Manage financial aspects of restricted fund applications and donor financial reporting, including support for emergency appeals.
- Support grant-related processes such as budget development, financial management, risk management, and donor reporting, ensuring compliance with BRC and IFRC procedures.
- Coordinate with partners and internal teams to ensure accurate and timely submission of programme reports, budgets, and financials for donor reporting.
- Identify financial system risks, support regional and country risk registers, and propose mitigation measures.
- Collaborate with the Finance Business Partnering team to ensure robust management of restricted funding balances and optimisation of overhead cost recovery.
- Ensure compliance with BRC policies and procedures, champion high accountability standards, and uphold Red Cross values across all operations.
- Promote and ensure safe, inclusive environments, monitor safeguarding risk management, and guide safeguarding integration across all operations and partnerships.
What we are looking for
You will be a Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, FMAAT, CCAB) or possess equivalent experience, with a strong understanding of financial controls and processes in a Disaster Management context. You will have in-depth knowledge of audit and internal controls, with the ability to make recommendations for improvement. Your expertise will include grant management processes within complex organizations and funding environments. You will be proficient in project management, coordination, and planning, and have experience in operational security management for regional finance teams. Additionally, you will have demonstrable experience in Security Management for both individuals and teams.
You will also have robust experience in financial leadership, aligning financial operations with long-term strategy, and managing multiple and sometimes competing donor interests and demands in an international context. It is essential that you have proven strong financial business partnering skills such as successfully managing accounting, finance systems and processes, including familiarity with the MS Office Suite.
You will have strong diplomacy, negotiation, and advocacy skills, along with excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal). Your international experience, especially within an emergency response context to natural disasters and complex emergencies, will be invaluable. You will ensure inclusive practice, challenge discrimination, and promote diversity in line with our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) policy. As a leader of high integrity, you will promote a positive working culture, foster a collegial environment, and prioritize well-being. You will have proven track record in motivating, leading, and working collaboratively through others to achieve operational objectives.
Furthermore, be prepared to relocate to safer countries in the region if the Lebanon/Beirut regional office area is directly affected by conflict. You should be willing to work remotely if the regional office in Beirut is deemed unsafe. You must be willing and able to travel regularly within the region on potentially short notice (a minimum of 48 hours) and operate in a physically demanding working environment. A willingness to work out of office hours when necessary is also expected.
It’d be useful if you have knowledge and experience working within the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, as well speaking Arabic language.
***Please see Role Profile for more information***
Closing date for applications is 23:59 on Sunday 11th January 2026
Should you have any questions on this role please email us at [email protected] quoting the job title.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits, these include: