Programme Finance Manager

The Programme Finance Manager (PFM) is responsible for providing strategic financial leadership and stewardship for the programme in Tanzania, ensuring that financial planning, controls, compliance, and reporting effectively support high-quality programme delivery in a complex, multi-partner environment.

Operating as a key member of the country programme leadership team, the PFM translates HQ financial frameworks and donor requirements into robust, fit-for-purpose country-level systems, while enabling adaptive, value-for-money programme implementation. The Programme Finance Manager plays a critical role in strengthening partner financial capacity, safeguarding programme resources, and ensuring that financial decision-making supports both accountability and impact.

This role requires strong professional judgement, a proactive problem-solving mindset, and the ability to lead financial management through change, ambiguity, and evolving programme delivery contexts.

Duties & Key Responsibilities:

1. Country programme finance leadership:
   • Provide strategic financial leadership to the country programme, ensuring financial considerations are fully integrated into programme planning, delivery, and decision-making.
   • Act as a trusted finance partner to the Senior Programme Manager, supporting evidence-based decisions on resource allocation, risk management, and programme adaptation.
   • Contribute to country-level programme planning processes, ensuring alignment between technical priorities, budgets, and delivery realities
2. Budgeting, forecasting and financial planning: 
   • Lead the development, consolidation, and ongoing management of country programme budgets in line with approved grants, donor agreements, and HQ financial frameworks.
   • Produce accurate forecasts and variance analyses, proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and required corrective actions.
   • Where needed - support reprogramming and budget revisions in response to contextual shifts, donor requirements, or programme learning.
3. Financial controls, compliance and risk management:
   • Ensure strong financial controls are in place and consistently applied across the Tanzania programme and implementing partners.
   • Maintain full compliance with donor financial regulations, Amref policies, and statutory requirements.
   • Identify, assess, and proactively manage financial risks, escalating issues appropriately and proposing practical mitigation measures.
4. People & Performance:
   • Provide coaching and guidance to country finance staff to support sound judgment and accountability; ensure consistency of controls while respecting local operating contexts.
   • Champion a culture of accountability, learning, and ethical financial management within the country programme.
   • Lead and support change initiatives related to financial systems, donor requirements, or organisational processes; drive continuous improvement of country-level financial processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency, transparency, and usability.
   • Uphold Amref and programme values and code of conduct, modelling ethical leadership and zero tolerance for fraud, abuse, or misconduct.
5. Partner (Sub-grantee) financial management and capacity strengthening:
   • Provide oversight and support to sub-grantees on financial management, reporting, and compliance.
   • Review partner financial reports, verify expenditures, and ensure timely resolution of queries; build implementing partner financial management capacity through coaching, guidance, and system strengthening, in line with Amref’s partnership approach.
   • Work closely with Grants and Programme teams to embed financial compliance into delivery workflows.
   • Build financial understanding and trust among non-finance stakeholders, translating financial requirements into practical guidance that enables effective collaboration and problem-solving.
6. Financial Reporting and Donor accountability:
   • Lead the preparation and submission of accurate, timely, and high-quality country programme financial reports.
   • Work closely with the Grants Manager and MEL colleagues to ensure financial reporting is coherent with narrative and results reporting; support audits and financial reviews, ensuring findings specific to the country programme are addressed and lessons integrated into tangible practice.
7. Entrepreneurial financial leadership and delivery enablement:
   • Apply an entrepreneurial and agile approach to financial leadership, enabling timely decision-making that supports country programme delivery while maintaining strong governance, accountability, and compliance.
   • Anticipate and respond rapidly to emerging financial risks, constraints, or opportunities, providing practical options and solutions that allow programme teams to maintain momentum; ensure financial controls protect the programme without creating unnecessary bottlenecks that delay delivery or innovation.
8. Strategic cost insight & value for money:
   • Provide strategic leadership on country-level costing by designing robust cost models and interrogating key cost drivers; generate high-value cost insights that strengthen understanding of unit costs, efficiency, and value for money.
   • Support country-level decision-making on programme design, delivery models, and resource allocation.