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Job Description
This position will be responsible for implementing and/or coordinating all financial support functions for BHA and Partners in addition to budget monitoring. Ranging from proposal budgeting, implementation financial monitoring, reporting, and closeouts.
Responsibilities
- This role will ensure accurate, complete and reliable financial information is maintained through the following actions: conduct budget vs. actuals budget analysis; ensure appropriate expensing and coding of award costs; analyse Life of Award (LoA) reports for financial monitoring of spend; conduct general ledger reviews, as needed; and determine corrective actions necessary to resolve errors, then independently manage follow-up actions between finance stakeholder.
- Oversee expenses are in accordance with donor rules and regulations and approved budgets.
- Oversee issues as needed and as appropriate to financial compliance including collaborating with humanitarian management team, legal team, or grants and contracts support.
- Produce detailed transaction reports as needed, for further analysis.
- Maintain knowledge on donor rules and regulations and monitor and review compliance. Support any required audits.
- Work closely with the budget holder and operations unit to track spending, provide information for financial reporting, reference financial system for information and manage expenses re-class HO cost.
- Oversee and actively coordinate the development of cost proposals, including: sharing and conducting necessary trainings on cost proposal templates; ensuring all CO costs are appropriately budgeted into the projects; conducting thorough review of proposal budgets in collaboration with country office technical leads and colleagues; ensuring proposal budget documents are ready for donor submission.
Financial Reporting and Close-Outs
- Facilitate financial reconciliation, including final accruals, receivables, and adjustments.
- Work with the awards team to process of close-out via the Award Management System Close-Out checklist for the CO and facilitate review follow-ups as needed.
- Review financial reports prepared by Global Finance and support changes and follow up work with humanitarian team members as needed.
- Support on financial close-out of awards including analysis of expenditures and receipt balances as may be necessary.
Qualification
- Qualified Chartered Accountant with 4 years of post-qualification experience.
- At least 7 years of experience in an International NGO and with major donor projects especially USAID/BHA
- Knowledge and expertise in the field of project preparation, commercial negotiations, financial management, internal controls/systems development, accounting, auditing and reporting
- Ability to problem solve efficaciously exercising good judgement will be an asset.
- Experience working in project with Cash Transfer or Food Voucher component.
- Experience working with Partners and grants management.
Desirable Criteria
- Good training and facilitation skills (for financial training/support to partners).
- Ability to multi-task, engage in long-term planning, meet deadlines, and handle last-minute demands; exercise patience, and adapt to changing circumstances.
- Ability to be creative and proactive health service improvement is essential.
- Experience of working on CVA programs.
Location: Borno, Nigeria.
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