Finance, Compliance and Risk Manager – Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)

Position description

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:

• Accommodation while on deployment
• Subsistence allowances while overseas
• Travel to and from the country of posting, plus long service flights
• Comprehensive insurance, including medical, personal effects and life insurance
• Pre and post assignment medicals and access to excellent health and wellbeing benefits
• Access to a pension, which you can join at any time during your contract
• Generous leave entitlement (36 days incl. public holidays)

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A little bit more about us…

The British Red Cross help anyone, anywhere in the UK and overseas; get the support they need if crisis strikes.

Our organisation was born out of a desire to bring help without discrimination.
Impartiality and neutrality have been central values for the Red Cross since we started.

At the British Red Cross, we are looking for the best people to help us provide support to millions of people affected by crisis in the UK. We want our team to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve, offering equal opportunities to everyone, regardless of; age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Diversity is something we celebrate, and we want you to be able to bring your authentic-self to the Red Cross. We want you to feel that you are in an inclusive environment, and a great position to help us spread the power of kindness.

In the British Red Cross we will not tolerate any form of misconduct, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse. We have a code of conduct in place, and are committed to creating a culture of integrity in the organisation where misconduct is not tolerated, situations of abuse are quickly investigated and perpetrators are dealt with effectively.

British Red Cross also participates in the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme for roles within the International Directorate. In line with the 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.

If you are appointed to a role within BRC you will be subject to the organisation’s Code of Conduct, a copy of which you can find on our website.

As part of its recruitment and selection process the British Red Cross undertakes DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checking of all individuals who regularly work with or have access to children and vulnerable adults.

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