Finance and Administration Manager

Operation Mobilization Canada; France; Sur place; EUR 28 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Operation Mobilization Canada is seeking a finance and admin professional to support our Pontault-Combault team in France, ensuring compliant financial practices for the field and effective administration.

You will oversee the field accountant, manage payroll and contracts, prepare French financial reports, and collaborate with ministry leaders and the board. English and French language skills are required, with cross-cultural experience valued.

Qualifications

• Compliance with OM values, structures, and faith.
• Fluent in English and French (or willing to learn on arrival)
• Able to perform accounting, administrative, and bookkeeping tasks
• Finance training or experience is helpful
• Reliable, well-organised, and able to manage multiple tasks

Responsabilités

• Oversee the field accountant and ensure compliant financial practices
• Ensure French financial rules compliance and alignment with OM international needs
• Understand the finance systems used by OM
• Manage salary and employment aspects of the association
• Provide regular reports to field leaders and board
• Keep insurance and other contracts up to date
• Support administrative work with field leader and board
• Possibility to assist in field fundraising

Connaissances

Attention to detail

Self-motivation

Independent work

Well-organised

Multitasking

Teamwork

English proficiency

French proficiency

Cross-cultural experience

Willingness to learn

Outils

Microsoft Excel

Description du poste

Do you feel called by God to serve him in France? Join us in our goal to inspire, mobilise and equip others, to see churches grow and believers discipled, in one of the least reached countries in Europe.

Come and use your finance and admin skills to help us achieve this vision! This role is vital to the ministry on the field. We are looking for committed team members who love God and are passionate about serving Him with their gifts and skills, and if necessary to serve in other ways too!

Requirements

Your role will include:

• overseeing the field accountant,
• ensuring good practice and that our systems are compliant with French financial rules as well as meeting the OM international needs.
• Understanding the finance systems used by OM
• Dealing with the salary and employment side of the association
• Providing regular contact and reports for the field and ministry leaders and the board,
• To ensure that the different insurance and other contracts are up to date and looking into other options when necessary.
• To provide help with the administrative work of the association in conjunction with the field leader and the board
• Possibility to also be involved in fund raising for the field or other projects.

Working as part of the small core office team in the town of Pontault-Combault, you will have an essential support role across departments.
It is likely that you will be engaging with French people – from the external chartered accountant and auditor, the donors and the team here as well as having contact with the OM offices in other countries. So, it is important to have a good relational manner and appreciation of diverse cultures.

Ideal qualities

• Compliance with OM, its guiding values, structures, and statement of faith.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• An eye for detail to perform various accounting, administrative and book-keeping tasks.
• Able to produce French financial reports and budgets.
• Finance training or previous experience is helpful. Willingness to learn is crucial.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Servant hearted person.
• Able to maintain confidentiality with accounting information.
• Well-organised and reliable
• Capable of managing several tasks at the same time and can handle some repetition in tasks
• Thrives in working as part of an international team
• Good knowledge of English and French obligatory (or option to learn on arrival)
• Cross-cultural experience preferred, or willingness to gain some cross-cultural experience
• Needs to be based in the office in Pontault-Combault

Spiritual Requirements

• To be growing in your relationship with God
• To love God and people as yourself.
• Willing to grow spiritually in community
• Accept to have a mentor (could be someone within or outside of OM)