BRAC International is a leading non-profit organisation with a mission to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease, and social injustice. Founded in 1972, by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, BRAC is the largest non-governmental development organisation in the world and is present in 16 countries across Asia and Africa today. BRAC first expanded its microfinance operations internationally in 2002 and now operates in seven countries outside of Bangladesh – Tanzania, Myanmar, Uganda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana. Together, these seven entities serve more than 800,000 clients, 96% of whom are women.

We are seeking an exceptional Financial Controller to be the uncompromising guardian of financial truth and the second line of defense in Tanzania’s most critical controllership role. You will own the entire financial control environment across a complex, decentralized operation running on Temenos T24, ensuring every number is accurate, auditable, and actionable from branch-level entries to consolidated Board and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities or duties

• Lead the financial close process and ensure timely, accurate, and audit-ready financial reporting.
• Maintain strong financial controls, data integrity, and governance frameworks across the organization.
• Conduct financial performance analysis, variance reviews, and provide actionable insights to management.
• Strengthen fraud prevention mechanisms, monitor financial risks, and drive corrective actions.
• Ensure timely submission of financial reports to management, the Board, regulators, lenders, and other stakeholders.
• Oversee financial governance of procurement and contracting processes.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, approval frameworks, and value-for-money principles.
• Strengthening controls over organizational expenditure and vendor management.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes.
• Monitor organizational performance against budgets and strategic objectives.
• Provide scenario analysis and financial insights to support decision-making and capital management.
• Ensure compliance with tax, VAT, statutory, regulatory, and financial reporting requirements.
• Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisors, regulators, rating agencies, development partners, and other key stakeholders.
• Coordinate audits and facilitate timely resolution of audit findings.
• Lead finance systems optimization, automation initiatives, and reporting enhancements.
• Drive the effective use of T24, Power BI, and other digital tools to improve efficiency, controls, and decision-making.
• Support continuous improvement of finance processes and management information systems.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing finance and controllership team.
• Drive staff development, succession planning, performance management, and leadership growth.
• Foster a culture of accountability, excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Safeguarding

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals for safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Experience needed

• Must have 10+ years’ experience in finance/controllership; 5+ years as FC/Deputy FC/Head of Controls in a large bank/MFI/NBFI (>TZS 150bn portfolio).
• Must have experience handling Core Banking System, IFRS 9, BOT regulations, TRA compliance.
• Must have Advanced Excel skills, Power BI, SQL; RPA/Python desirable.
• Must have CPA (T), ACCA, ACA professional qualifications or equivalent required; MBA preferred.

Key Competencies:

• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and crisis handling.
• Absolute integrity, analytical rigor, and a reputation for zero tolerance of weak controls.
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with non-technical users.
• Ability to work under pressure and handle confidential information.

• Lead the financial close process and ensure timely, accurate, and audit-ready financial reporting.
• Maintain strong financial controls, data integrity, and governance frameworks across the organization.
• Conduct financial performance analysis, variance reviews, and provide actionable insights to management.
• Strengthen fraud prevention mechanisms, monitor financial risks, and drive corrective actions.
• Ensure timely submission of financial reports to management, the Board, regulators, lenders, and other stakeholders.
• Oversee financial governance of procurement and contracting processes.
• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, approval frameworks, and value-for-money principles.
• Strengthening controls over organizational expenditure and vendor management.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes.
• Monitor organizational performance against budgets and strategic objectives.
• Provide scenario analysis and financial insights to support decision-making and capital management.
• Ensure compliance with tax, VAT, statutory, regulatory, and financial reporting requirements.
• Manage relationships with auditors, tax advisors, regulators, rating agencies, development partners, and other key stakeholders.
• Coordinate audits and facilitate timely resolution of audit findings.
• Lead finance systems optimization, automation initiatives, and reporting enhancements.
• Drive the effective use of T24, Power BI, and other digital tools to improve efficiency, controls, and decision-making.
• Support continuous improvement of finance processes and management information systems.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing finance and controllership team.
• Drive staff development, succession planning, performance management, and leadership growth.
• Foster a culture of accountability, excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals for safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

• Advanced Excel skills
• Power BI
• SQL
• RPA/Python desirable
• Strong leadership
• Stakeholder management
• Crisis handling
• Analytical rigor
• Analytical thinking
• Problem-solving skills
• Effective communication with non-technical users
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to handle confidential information

• CPA (T), ACCA, ACA professional qualifications or equivalent required
• MBA preferred