Background

The Global Finance (GF) section is responsible for the development and operationalization of the Centre of Excellence for Financial management and processes in NRC and as such to ensure that NRC delivers high quality, effective and accountable financial management in line with policies, strategies, donor requirements, national legislation, systems, handbooks and guidelines. The section should develop and maintain the overarching financial strategies for NRC, maintain an overall financial monitoring and analytical function and provide relevant financial advice to the SG and SMG on internal and external trends and issues. The section is also responsible to run and coordinate the NRC annual budgeting process across departments, has the overall responsibility for coordination of all audits of NRC, and is responsible for conducting regular compliance checks and recommend corrective action across the organisation.

The section has currently two units: 1. Policy and Control Unit and 2. Accounting, Payroll, Treasury and Unit4 ERP Unit. The plan is to organise the section in four units, where payroll is one of these.

NRC use Unit4 as the payroll software, while the input data comes from an Oracle HRM system.

Staff is a crucial input in our projects, and salaries account for 40% of NRC’s total costs. Handling the payrolls in NRC is complex and involves many different salary compensation packages and strict compliance requirements with tax and social security reporting in Norway, country of work and country of living. The Global Salary Manager is responsible that the Head Office payrolls are handled correctly, efficiently and on time. In 2022, the Head Office payrolls cover about 285 staff at the Head Office, 600 staff on international contracts located in regional, country and representative offices, and 400 NORCAP roster staff on short-term international deployments. Furthermore, the Global Salary Manager is the focal point and centre of excellence for all payroll tools in all of NRC’s operations.

Please access the full Job Description for more details about the role. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country. Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks. NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

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