Finance Officer

Support finance and donor compliance at Christian Aid in Amman. Full-time, eight-month contract; JOD 24,745 annual salary. Arabic and English required.

Role and contract

• Report to the Finance Manager and support regional financial management, donor compliance, risk management and service improvement.
• Based in Amman, Jordan, on an eight-month fixed-term, full-time agreement of 35 hours per week.
• Advertised annual pay is JOD 24,745. The organisation offers hybrid work for office-based colleagues and is open to flexible arrangements; no role-specific hybrid schedule is stated.
• The attached role profile allows up to 50 days of in-country travel and no global travel.

Responsibilities

• Carry out high-quality finance duties supporting the regional hub and the countries it follows.
• Manage transactions through multiple bank accounts and currencies and review processes to maintain coherent, consistent financial information.
• Support financial monitoring, donor reporting and compliance across country programmes collaboratively.
• Build partners’ financial capacity with appropriate training and trust-based relationships that consider their perspectives.
• Apply institutional-donor financial rules across programmes and coordinate with finance colleagues in other countries to standardise processes.
• Implement established financial procedures in line with organisational goals and values, maintain financial information, analyse routine issues and discrepancies and explain financial practice clearly.
• Work with local programme colleagues, local and internal auditors, partners, suppliers and external auditors.

Essential qualifications

• Degree or equivalent and partial professional qualification with a recognised accountancy body, such as CPA or ACCA.
• Substantial experience in financial-accounting procedures, writing and reviewing reports and preparing and monitoring budgets.
• Demonstrated financial-training experience using varied methodologies.
• Experience with Excel, word processing and accounting-reporting tools and developed analytical ability to interpret financial information and investigate discrepancies.
• Fluent written and spoken Arabic and English, as specified for Jordan posts in the attached official role profile.

Desirable qualifications

• Knowledge of donor requirements, local partners, NGOs and development.
• Institutional-donor fund-accounting experience and use of computerised reporting systems.
• Partial qualification with an IFAC-recognised accountancy body and a training-related qualification.

Inclusion and pre-employment checks

• Applicants of every faith and none and from varied professional backgrounds are welcome; understanding and sympathy with the organisation’s faith identity are expected.
• Applications from underrepresented groups are encouraged, including racialised minorities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, returning carers or parents, women, older workers and people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Applicants must have the legal right to live and work in the country of the role and supply relevant evidence when requested.
• Successful applicants undergo appropriate police/DBS and counter-terrorism-sanctions checks.
• Under the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, previous employers may be asked about findings of sexual exploitation, abuse or harassment, or related investigations pending on departure.

Application

• Apply through the official recruitment page. Applications and CVs must be in English only.
• Closing date is 11 October 2026. The advert may close earlier if applications are numerous, so early submission is encouraged.