Finance Officer
Company Overview:
Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of high-end consulting and engineering services. We are over 25,000 employees dedicated to solving water, environment, sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy, and international development challenges for our clients and communities.
Tetra Tech International Development Europe is Tetra Tech’s European business unit focused on international development project management, technical advisory, and monitoring and evaluation services. We have a 40-year history of successfully delivering international development projects on behalf of donors around the world, including the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the European Union (EU), development banks and multilateral institutions. Our people are focused on improving lives and work side by side with local partners to support sustainable economic growth, stability, governance, and environmental and climate practices. You can find out more about our international development work with UK and European clients here.
Over Values:
We are committed to maintaining business practices that honour and protect the dignity and integrity of everyone with whom the company conducts business, employs, and serves. As a leading international development organisation, we fully support continued progress and improvement within the development community to make development initiatives more effective. We are also committed to addressing various cross-cutting issues relevant to international development to ensure that all people can access and enjoy the benefits of our activities.
- We value our people: we support the development of our people, ensuring that the environments in which they work are fair, safe, and flexible.
- We deliver quality results: we go the extra mile to deliver value for our clients, impact for beneficiaries and a fair financial return for the company to grow sustainably.
- We collaborate effectively: we work authentically with our clients, beneficiaries and partners and strive to always communicate clearly and openly.
- We encourage creativity and innovation: we encourage entrepreneurial thinking and provide the freedom, support and investment for new ideas and initiatives.
- We operate with integrity: We will do the right thing, be honest and keep to our commitments.
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Flexible working available: We operate a hybrid working policy, with people working from the office two days a week and the rest working from home. People may choose to come in more often.
Contract Type: Fixed Term, Full Time Contract until 31 March 2027
Working Hours: 40 hours per week
Salary & Benefits: Competitive Salary & Benefits
Job Overview:
The Tetra Tech Nigeria Platform delivers support aimed at addressing some of Nigeria’s most pressing development, economic and governance challenges. Working with both the Federal and Subnational governments, Tetra Tech provides technical advisory, grant and project delivery expertise.
- Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria (SPRiNG): Supporting conflict prevention and community resilience across Northern Nigeria.
- Nigeria Economic Stability & Transformation (NEST): Driving inclusive economic reform and growth.
- Nigeria Public Finance Facility (NPFF): Improving public financial management
All projects are funded and governed by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), contributing to FCDO’s objectives of long-term stability, economic opportunity and effective public service delivery across Nigeria.
The Finance Officer will support the day-to-day financial operations of NPFF, NEST and SPRiNG. The role ensures accurate processing payments, maintenance of financial records, and compliance with Tetra Tech Finance Manual, donor regulations, and organisational procedures.
Main Duties:
Financial Operation
Process payments to consultants and suppliers by correctly raising and coding Bank Payment Vouchers on ApprovalMax and uploading complete supporting documents.
Upload approved Bank Payment Vouchers to banking platform for approval by bank signatories.
File all approved vouchers and the relevant evidence of payments on Egnyte.
Download Evidence of Payments and share with Project Coordinators, Operations Team.
Raise WHT invoices and vouchers for remittance to the relevant tax boards as mandated by law and safe evidence of payments on Egnyte.
Raise Journals for acquittal of advances and correction of wrong postings as advised by the Finance Manager
Process monthly payrolls by raising payment vouchers for Net salaries and Deductions.
Assist the Finance Manager on any ad-hoc work including sourcing documents during internal and external audits.
Compliance & Records
- Ensure that all financial records are filed properly and in a timely manner.
- Provide accurate and timely responses to internal and external audit enquiries.
Aptitude and skills:
- Collaboration across the platform, its processes, and team members.
- Adherence to client and Tetra Tech financial and compliance processes and procedures.
- Adherence to timelines for project implementation.
- Client and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Risk management and knowledge sharing.
Essential
- Demonstrable, sustained experience in recurring accounting and finance activities, with a proven track record of delivering these responsibilities independently.
- Strong accounting, finance and administration skills.
- Experience supporting the preparation of financial reports.
- Experience supporting management and reconciliation of multi-country and multi-currency finances.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, and demonstrable experience working with finance and non-finance employees.
- Being able to prioritise and work with multiple stakeholders.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
Desirable
- Experience working on UK donor (FCDO) funded projects.
- Full or part-qualified accountant.
- Experience working with QuickBooks.
- Experience working with Approval Max.
Qualifications:
A university degree (or equivalent) in accounting or financial management.
Closing date for applications:
Friday 18 September 2026.
Applicants are required to include a cover letter with their application. Your cover letter should highlight your relevant experience and explain why you are interested in this position.
Right to Work:
Applicants must already have the legal right to work in Nigeria; we are not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position.
Disability Confident Employer:
Disability Confident is a UK government scheme that supports employers in creating and fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces. We have self-identified as registered disability confident participants.
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If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a vision of this document in a more accessible format. Please contact a member of the Human Resources department in the UK by emailing Disability.Confident@tetratech.com.
Safeguarding:
Tetra Tech International Development has robust policies and guidelines which exemplify our commitment to safeguarding and technical excellence in gender equality. Our team of dedicated GEDSI advisers work closely with our staff and partners to ensure a context-specific and consistent approach is applied to all of our programmes to improve the livelihoods of the world’s most marginalised groups.
Use of Artificial Intelligence in our recruitment process:
We understand that you as a candidate may want to use AI in preparation of your application and interview. Please be mindful when doing this, as we want to hear from you and about your unique views and experiences. During our competency based interviews and following possible skills tests we do not approve the use of any AI tools for recording or other purposes.
We at Tetra Tech continuously explore possibilities of AI to improve quality of our work. AI tools may be used to improve efficiency of our recruitment processes – however decisions are made by humans. If you wish your information not be processed by AI, please contact us directly.
Region: United Kingdom and Europe Teams and Clients
Region: United Kingdom and Europe Teams and Clients
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