Terre des hommes (Tdh), headquartered in Lausanne with an office in Zurich, is the largest Swiss children’s rights organization, with over 2,000 staff members worldwide. We are committed to working alongside children to guarantee their rights, protect their lives, and improve their well-being. We achieve this through our innovative programs in the areas of health, migration, and access to justice, designed to have a positive and lasting impact.

Founded in 1960 and active in Nepal since 1985, Tdh has implemented impactful interventions in Maternal and Child Health, Migration, and WASH in Institutions, with a strong focus on Child Protection. All initiatives are carried out in close collaboration with government bodies and civil society organizations to ensure sustainable and child-centered outcomes.

Position

Finance Manager

Report to

Country Director

Location

Kathmandu

Duration

1 year with possibility of extension

Application deadline

28th October 2026

Background

The Finance Manager Nepal is responsible for all financial aspects of Terre des hommes operations in Nepal. S/he contributes to the development of the systems and processes in link with HQ support team in the Asia zone, proactively building, as part of the team, towards financial sustainability of Nepal country office.

The Finance Manager works closely with the Financial Controller supporting Asia from HQ, the Head of Country office, and Country Finance Team to ensure compliance with policies, evaluation, managing audits, and development of staff, and to support wider operational and strategic decision making as a key member of the senior management Team.

The Finance Manager is in charge to ensure effective, high quality, harmonized and compliant Finance and service delivery to the HQ and within the Nepal Country office, through excellence in performance, supervision, guidance and strengthening of existing structures.

Main responsibilities

Strategy and Policy

Contributes together with finance team in periodically reviewing, analysing and implementing and in the formulation of the annual strategic priorities and action plans.

Ensures that Finance visions and approaches within the Nepal Country office fall into the framework of the country strategic priorities; Moreover, ensure that they contribute to the achievement of objectives of the country strategic and annual plans.

Ensure in-country policy, guideline practices are in full compliance with Tdh’s requirement and local law.

Develops and ensures follow-up of a proper implementation of yearly Action Plans, which set the key objectives and their prioritization – of Finance Departments. For this purpose, regular review of the Action Plans must be organized, at least on a quarterly basis with her/his team.

Ensure a full understanding, appropriation, and use of key Tdh policies, manuals, processes, and tools in Finance department.

Management

Ensures that appropriate and harmonized Finance set up is in place and when it is needed, propose review of organigrams and Job Descriptive of her/his teams to Country Director for validation.

Builds capacity of the finance team on quality financial management and update on changes of country law/rules/acts.

Ensures strong Internal controls over key financial activities, reporting and compliance functions.

Provides direct supervision, guidance and support to direct subordinates and define their yearly key professional objectives

Ensures the daily coaching of any collaborator under her/his responsibility, from the recruiting to the final collaboration reports that are generated. Furthermore, organize punctual training programmes to develop and strengthen the technical knowledge and skills, mainly of Tdh staff and, where appropriate, that of partners as well.

Integrates with and respects the values, policies, and processes of Tdh in her/his management practices.

Ensures effective teamwork through establishment of effective means of collaboration within the Finance department especially a clear channel of information sharing and communication, a proper workflow based on a balanced delegation of task between the team members- developing a common, coherent, and exhaustive approach within the Nepal Country Office.

Ensures each new employee receives an appropriate briefing on financial matters.

Maintains the correct filing of all Finance and Administration documents for the Nepal Country office, following the filing system in place within the organisation.

Coordination

Internal coordination

Ensures the correct flow of information and mechanisms of coordination and collaboration between Finance-Admin-Logistics and Program teams within the Nepal Country Office.

Ensures and facilitates a regular and smooth coordination with the HQ support team, on all matters related to Finance, by centralizing and harmonizing tools, internal and external reporting on agreed deadlines.

External Coordination

Represents the organization locally to partners, donors, (I)NGOs, International Organizations and local authorities, and reports interview findings to the Country Director (only when required and where appropriate, under the supervision of the Country Director)

Quality of Finance services

Budget planning and management

Leads the yearly budget planning process of the Nepal Country Office and provides advice to the Country Director and the Senior Management Team on defining the best allocation of the internal and external funds, through exhaustive and detailed budget and financial risks analysis and benefits.

Ensures that the budget follow up and forecast processes are well in place for each project and implemented on a timely, quality and in a collaborative manner by Finance, Support and Program Departments.

On a monthly basis, compiles independently the global Nepal Country budget follow up (Finance Management Tool) and engages with the Programs Managers and Country Director, in analysing the situation and propose corrective/reallocation measures if needed, and shares with HQ Financial Controller.

Follows the co-financing needs, identifies the financial risks linked to the context, external audits, and legal issues.

Treasury financial management

Supervises the proper bank account(s) management by the country finance team, and where situation demands, manages the bank accounts independently under the guidance of the Country Director and liaise with the bank managers for any issues.

Updates when needed the Country Profile Form.

Validates the country cash forecast and prepares a monthly cash forecast, analyses, and discusses it every quarter with the Country Director in order to guarantee that the Nepal office is provided with sufficient liquidity for a smooth implementation of activities.

Ensure proper supervision of treasury management, in compliance with Tdh requirements.

Follow on a regular basis all donor instalments and relay with donor and HQ to recover the reimbursements from financial partners.

Accountancy management

Holds responsibility for the monthly account closing, with the analysis.

Holds responsibility for the semester accountancy closure in line with a general timeline, respecting the last frame and tools.

Compliance of Finance Services

Promotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout the Nepal Country Office team. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of Tdh’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.

Ensures that the financial practices and tools follow 1. national laws, 2. donor regulations and 3. Tdh institutional policies and manuals.

Makes recommendations and advises on Tdh policies, manuals, and SOPs currently in place when appropriate.

Ensures that donors and Tdh requirements/regulations in term of Finance, Administration are read, understood, and followed by the Nepal Country Office employees, to guarantee a high level of compliance and mitigate risks.

Ensures timely roll-out and implementation of new or updated Tdh policies, procedures and/or tools at Nepal country level; organize sessions with relevant involved persons to present and explain the documents and then ensure their proper understanding and implementation.

Ensures the best implementation of Tdh Risk Management Policies such as anti-Fraud/Corruption Policy, Policy against fraud and criminal activities (PFAC), Whistle Blowing Policy, Cash Policy amongst others.

Supports the selection of operational partners, their evaluation of financial Administration capacities, their assessment and internal control and their capacity to implement Tdh and donor policies.

Specific responsibilities related to Audit

Develops and keeps updated a yearly agenda of the already known external audits.

Leads on the auditing processes by

Lead the preparation and organization of the documents for all financial/annual audits

Ensures auditing of accounts at the end of the year and leads on the preparation of project audits by assisting the auditors with their requests

sharing with HQ team to get validation any potential reply to the management letter

Develops implementation plan and calendar for internal and external audit recommendations and share them with Head of Country Office and support team at HQ.

Ensures and monitors the implementation of this plan and provide a yearly report on the achievements to Head of Country Office and Finance Controller at HQ.

Ensures the follow up of external audit recommendations and provides regular training for the team in internal controls and fraud prevention.

Reporting and proposals

Leads on budget development with program for all new projects.

Compiles donor finance reports for timely submission to donors

Provides on a monthly basis input into the Country situation report (SitRep) regarding Financial Administration updates for Tdh Nepal.

Profile

Master’s in business administration with specialization in Finance from an accredited University / educational institution.

Candidate having the Degree of International Finance Management / Chartered Accountancy will be an asset.

Experience / Skills

Minimum 8+ years of experience in financial managment capacity. Previous experience with an INGO is mandatory

· Experience in preparing budgets, cash flow statements, financial plans, and developing financial reports;

Evidence on experience with donor formats and requirements required.

Exceptional organizational skills, attention to detail and an aptitude for problem solving.

Good knowledge of accounting principles & financial analysis and presentation.

Strong work ethics and the ability to work well independently and as part of a team.

Ability to organize, manage, prioritize, and follow through on multiple tasks in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.

Ability to uphold high standards and punctuality under pressure.

Ability to travel to field operational areas on a regular basis.

Excellent training skills: Demonstrates the ability to design and deliver effective training programs on financial policies, systems, and best practices, ensuring team members and stakeholders clearly understand procedures, compliance requirements, and organizational goals.

Strong communication skills: Communicates complex financial information in a clear, concise, and actionable manner to both financial and non-financial stakeholders, supporting informed decision-making and fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Languages

Excellent proficiency in both written and spoken English and Nepali, with the ability to communicate clearly, professionally, and effectively across diverse audiences.

IT Knowledges

Ability to operate Microsoft Office 365 suite

Word, Excel & Power Point, SharePoint.

Tdh General Code of Conduct and Ethical Policies

Commits to promoting and complying with the Global Code of Conduct, systematically reporting any violations of the Code through Tdh’s formal reporting mechanisms and dealing with any violations of procedures and processes appropriately.

Raises awareness of the Foundation of the risks of policy non-compliance, violence and abuse, and related rights, towards children, community members and our own employees.

Undertakes to comply with key ethical policies and guidelines, including the Safeguarding Policy, the Anti-Fraud and Corruption Policy, the Conflict-of-Interest Policy and other policies related to the prevention of terrorist financing and criminal activities, as well as workplace behavior.

Commits to putting values and principles into practice through exemplary behavior, in full compliance with the Code of Conduct, and always respecting established procedures and processes.

Commits to developing a compliant and enlightened management culture within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we operate.

Tdh is an equal opportunities employer. Employees are recruited regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. Women, LGBTQI and People with disability are also encouraged to apply.

References

Please note that all job offers will be subject to satisfactory references and background checks (criminal record check and counter-terrorism financing verification). Terre des hommes will request references from the Human Resources departments of previous organizations regarding any discoveries of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment, as well as fraud and corruption, during employment, or regarding incidents under investigation at the time the candidate left their position.