The Senior Finance Officer directs financial activities for their assigned field offices, guides field finance administrators on transaction review, and reviews and approves payment and field expense transactions for posting to the general ledger. The function of the Senior Finance Officer is to take a proactive approach to the oversight of financial transactions within their portfolio and be a line of direct support to the field office finance managers and program teams. The Field Finance team works with the Program Administration Team and Program Team to design, propose, and start up new projects and field offices, monitor the costs and deliverables of the projects, and ensure accurate and timely reporting to the donor(s). Works with other Field Finance team members to provide full service accounting for projects to include advance account reconciliation. The Senior Finance Officer, in coordination with others in the CFO organization, will help to support IFES’ programmatic areas and both its HQ and global field offices and sites.