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Monday, May 7, 2012
Sunday, May 6, 2012
International Development - Director Of Finance & Compliance
Devex is currently assisting an international organization in its search for a Director of Finance & Compliance?.? Our client organization a leading Catholic charity based in the United States focused on distributing medicine and medical supplies, delivering healthcare services, and making healthcare accessible to all people worldwide with a special emphasis on women and children.? The organization has field offices in the US, Latin America and Caribbean region, more than 20 countries in Africa and also works in South and Southeast Asia, and select countries in Europe.
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Position Title:?Director of Finance & Compliance?
Department:? Finance
Reports to:?Chief Financial Officer
Location:?New York, NY
Travel:?Travel to the organization?s Washington, DC office and abroad may or will be required.
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Job Summary:??The Director of Finance and Compliance is responsible for the design, execution, and control?of the organization?s financial operations.? This position ensures compliance with grants management and directs financial and information systems for international and headquarter offices. The director oversees the organization?s financial operations to ensure compliance with both external regulations and internal procedures.
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Key Responsibilities:
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- Improve the financial operational systems, processes and policies in support of organizations vision ? specifically, support better management reporting, information flow and financial management business processes.
- Manage and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization?s financial systems through improvements to each function as well as coordination and communication between field and headquarters.
- Oversee overall financial management, planning, systems and controls.
- Management of agency budget in coordination with the CFO.
- Manage organization cost proposals process including the development RFA and RFPs in conjunction with the Grants Acquisition Team.
- Prepare and analyzes consolidated financial information from the global headquarters and offices in Latin America, Caribbean and Africa.
- Oversee monthly and quarterly assessments and forecasts of organization?s financial performance against budget, financial and operational goals.
- Oversee short and long-term financial and managerial reporting.
- Manage grants and contracts, including compliance team, to ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations including USAID, CDC, HHS as well as OMB A-122 (2CFR 230), A-110 (2 CFR 215), and 45 CFR 74
- Lead cross functional compliance team to ensure THE ORGANIZATION?S meets fiduciary responsibilities for all donor funding as well as internal standard operating procedures.
- Liaise with outside agencies (CDC, US AID, partner organizations)?for development of and compliance of all operational activities funded by both government& private donors
- Ensure that Accounting Department requests are resolved and communicated in a timely manner to internal and external parties.
- Collaborate with financial officers at headquarters, regional and country offices to ensure effective internal control systems.
- Develop, maintain and monitor accounting systems and procedures capturing all pledges, billings and receipts and for the recording of all revenue transactions, recommend and implement improvements to systems.
- Support/advise finance staff in both NY and in field offices in all areas of accounting, including year-end audits, claims, reimbursement from grantors and compliance
- Liaise with external auditors to ensure timely completion of annual audit, including A-133.
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Required Qualifications:
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- Master?s degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Minimum five (5) years direct supervisory experience.
- General accounting practices and policies.
- Application of appropriate federal and local laws and regulations (i.e., OMB or FAR).
- At least five years experience as Controller or equivalent, preferably in a nonprofit organization with a budget of at least $10-20 million.
- Experience in a senior financial-management role, partnering with executive staff, resulting in the development and implementation of creative financial management strategies.
- Specific experience in financial management of federally and privately funded contracts and grants.
- Extensive financial management experience, with at least five (5) years at a senior level, preferably working with CDC, USAID and other international donor agencies.?
- Deep knowledge and understanding of the Office of Management and Budget Circular A133 audit.
- Experience working with nonprofit accounting systems, Sage MIP preferable, to manage finance and accounting software packages.
- Comfortable with a team approach to management and the ability to manage several major activities simultaneously.
- Analyze issues and conceptualize solutions as well as an ability to establish, implement and communicate procedures and policies in a clear and concise manner are necessary.
- Direct staff by providing coaching and mentoring in the areas of professional development and workflow improvements.
- Develop, write, disseminate, and implement financial and accounting policies and procedures.
- Demonstrated leadership ability, team management, and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.?Fluent/Proficient English?required?(written and spoken)
- U.S. work authorization?required.
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Essential Leadership Characteristics and Competencies:
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- The ability to think strategically and the knowledge to develop competitive advantage with programs.
- The established track record of good business judgment and financial acumen.
- The demonstrated ability to model teamwork behaviors and team building skills. ? ??
- The awareness of international nonprofit healthcare challenges, current issues and sources of technical support and partnerships.?
To be considered for this position, please click ?Apply Now? or send your CV and cover letter to?
. So that we may best assess your skills and experience in relation to this opportunity, please submit a cover letter highlighting your relevant experience for this position.?
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Friday, May 4, 2012
'Avengers,' Inside The Fights: Five Secrets Revealed
Fight coordinator Jonathan Eusebio leads MTV News through the biggest battles.
By Kevin P. Sullivan
Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. in "The Avengers"
Photo: Marvel Studios
As you're watching "The Avengers" on the big screen, it's easy to forget that the heroes you see fighting the alien invaders are actually paid actors and that those actors learned their moves not from a secret government agency like S.H.I.E.L.D., but from fight coordinator Jonathan Eusebio.
Eusebio spoke with MTV News in the lead-up to Marvel's ultimate crossover to walk us through each key fight scene.
There are some minor spoilers ahead, so if you haven't seen "The Avengers" yet, consider yourself warned.
Black Widow in Chair
"Joss [Whedon] already had in his head how he wants the fight to look and how he thinks she would get out of this situation. He gave us notes on what he wants, and we design the fight around those notes. We choreograph it. We show it to him. There are more notes, and we just keep changing it until he's 100 percent happy.
"The chair makes it interesting. You need some kind of gimmick to make the fight different and to give it some interesting story point. Her being strapped to a chair and being interrogated, we already have the premise set out for us. We just have to be inventive on how to get her out.
"The hardest part is that it's very hard to be mobile, even moving around fighting with that thing strapped to your back. There are a lot of things that have to go along with it. We have to find the right chair at the right height, so that we can stand with it, that we can move around with it."
Thor vs. Iron Man vs. Captain America
"With those kinds of fights that involve a lot of digital effects, we have the base things outlined. When they're actually interacting with each other, that's our job with the stunt people. When Iron Man and Thor are throwing each other around up in the air, there's kind of a handoff from practical people to computer-generated people. Each department has to work together to make it seamless.
"What makes it interesting is all of them there together; you're trying to do your best to stay true to what people identify as their characteristics. There's no one character that I find more fascinating. What's interesting is the dynamic between five or six people and keeping them different enough to make it fresh."
Hawkeye vs. Black Widow
"The thing about these two characters is that they're not superhuman in the sense that the other superheroes are, so you just have these two agents with vast skill sets. For Jeremy [Renner] and Scarlett [Johansson], they had to really train hard because they're not just fighting aliens or computer-generated guys; they're fighting each other also. A lot of their training involved them working out together quite a bit.
"We cover a mix of different martial arts, but more practical martial arts, a mix of karate, jujitsu, judo, Pilipino martial arts, muay Thai boxing. It's a bunch of different elements of a bunch of practical martial arts."
Hulk vs. Thor
"The Hulk is completely computer-generated, but Chris Hemsworth had to actually interact with a person during that whole skirmish. We had a stunt double for the Hulk, so Chris was interacting with him the whole time you see the Hulk onscreen. The Hulk's also three or four feet taller than Thor is, so visual effects had to keep reminding us, 'This is where the Hulk's head is. This is how long the Hulk's reach is.' We had to work side-by-side with them for that whole sequence."
The Big Finale
"We had a team of 20 or so stunt men for the whole run of the movie. Not only did we have doubles for all the actors, but for Loki's army, we had a whole crop of stunt men, 10 to 12 core guys. All we did is choreograph huge action pieces for the whole last sequence. When that sequence actually came up, we already had really good pieces choreographed and rehearsed with most of the actors and the stunt people.
"It was really good that the actors trained really hard. There were some days that were tough and we had to make stuff up on the spot, and not just individual one-on-one type pieces. It would be pieces where it's eight-on-one, and the actors would pick it up on the spot, that day. I was pretty proud of the fact that they could adapt to changes on the spot. There's a Thor-Captain America team-up in the street, that one we pieced together pretty quick the day before we were going to shoot it. I think that turned out really good."
Check out everything we've got on "Marvel's The Avengers."
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Nokia gets it: launches patent lawsuits against HTC, RIM and Viewsonic
Nokia has just announced that it is commencing patent litigation against HTC, Research in Motion and Viewsonic in the US and Germany. It's claiming that a number of its patents are being infringed and has registered complaints with the ITC and courts in Delaware, Dusseldorf, Munich and Mannheim. Espoo's legal chief Louise Pentland has said that while the company currently licenses its FRAND patents to "more than 40 companies," it had no choice but to lay some courtroom smack-down on the named offenders. It appears that after losing its global market share crown and billion-dollar losses, the company is finally going on the offensive with its deep patent portfolio. You can judge that for yourself when you read the official line after the break.
Update: We've received some clarification from Nokia on what exactly is on the docket here. "Four of the patents asserted against Viewsonic in Mannheim are standards essential. The rest against Viewsonic and all against HTC and RIM are implementation patents, not declared essential to any standard and so we have no obligation to grant licenses."
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On anniversary of Bin Laden's death, Romney says he would have given the order
Controversy has swirled over a earlier comment by the candidate that he opposed sending troops into Pakistan.
Once a moment of national unity, the political battle over Osama bin Laden's death intensified Monday as presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to minimize the role President Barack Obama has carved out for himself in killing the terrorist leader.
Skip to next paragraphThe president's re-election campaign has raised questions about Romney's willingness to assassinate the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. Obama authorized the U.S. military raid in Pakistan that ended with bin Laden's death after a decade in hiding one year ago this week.
Romney pushed back Monday, saying "of course" he would have made the same decision.
"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said, referencing the former president in his answer to a reporter's question after a campaign appearance in New Hampshire.
Romney was scheduled to appear Tuesday in New York City with firefighters and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to help mark Wednesday's anniversary of bin Laden's death. Obama and his national security team will be featured in a NBC prime-time special Wednesday night that reconstructs the operation from inside the White House Situation Room.
Obama said Monday that the anniversary is a time for reflection, not celebration.
"I hardly think you've seen any excessive celebration taking place here," he said at a White House news conference. "I think that people, the American people, rightly remember what we as a country accomplished in bringing to justice somebody who killed over 3,000 of our citizens."
But Obama is using the successful military operation to help maximize a political narrative that portrays him as having the courage to make the tough calls his opponent might not.
Bin Laden was killed his compound in Abbottabod, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs after evading capture for nearly 10 years.
Obama sent in the U.S. forces with no assurance that bin Laden was at the site, leading to a heart-pounding scene in the Situation Room that was captured in one of the most famous photos of Obama's presidency.
But Romney and his advisers suggested Monday that the decision to order the raid was an easy one. In evoking Carter, however, Romney may have clouded his message.
Carter demonstrated how dangerous such decisions can be when he ordered an attempt to rescue American hostages held in Iran. The 1980 mission ultimately embarrassed the nation, ending with the death of eight servicemen and the loss of several American helicopters. The hostage crisis lasted more than a year and helped deny Carter a second term.
On Sunday, Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said it was unclear whether Romney would have made the same decision as Obama.
"Look, just a few years ago, President Obama ? then a candidate ? said in a speech that if we had actionable intelligence of a high-value target in Pakistan, we'd go in and get that high value target," Gibbs said on NBC's "Meet the Press." ''Mitt Romney said that was foolish. He wouldn't do such a thing. That he wouldn't move heaven and earth to get Osama bin Laden."
Obama's campaign last week released a video featuring former President Bill Clinton that seeks to reinforce Gibbs' doubts about what Romney would have done in that situation. "Which path would mitt Romney have taken?" the video asks.
Democrat Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, said the campaign ad went too far.
"I think it's one thing to celebrate the fact that they did such a great job. All that is perfectly legitimate," she said on CBS' "This Morning." ''But to turn it into a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can do."
Former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu, a key Romney supporter who was chief of staff in the first Bush White House, said Obama is wrongly taking credit for bin Laden's killing. Sununu said the decision to strike was ultimately made by a Navy admiral.
"It's wrong in taking credit and it's wrong in implying that someone else would not have made the same decision," Sununu said before Romney addressed a crowd on Portsmouth Fish Pier. "There is no way that anyone sitting in that White House would not have at least done what he did."
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