Deadline: 02 June, 2021
Location: Bauchi, Nigeria
Plan International is seeking to fill the role of Finance Officer.
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the setting up of grants in SAP
- Support the full cycle of grant management activities, beginning from pre-award assessments, monitoring/compliance visits and closeout procedures
- Track grantee contractual obligations, e.g., pre-award conditions
- Support the finance manager to prepare the annual grants budgets for the project
- Support the KP06 budget preparation and periodic upload in SAP
- Provide technical assistance in terms of accounting (use of SAP), financial management, financial policy formulation, and systems of internal control to all partners/grantees to ensure compliance with donor rules and regulations
- Support the assessments of partner/grantee organisations as directed by the finance manager
- Review partner budget and provide support and guidance where necessary including the monitoring and interpretation of project budgets versus actual expenditures
- Support train staff and partners on donor policies, rules and regulations
- Facilitate partner advance request and liquidation in SAP
- Review partner/grantee liquidation and recommend for approval
- Conduct and document regular partner visits to ensure compliance with grant agreement
- Ensure receipt of timely and accurate accounting and financial reports from partners
- Monitor the partner burn rate and offer timely advice to the partner and programmes team for prompt action and decision making
- Monitor and track grant-related performance measurement indicators and liaise with finance manager and grants coordinator to implement strategies to improve performance
- Explain donor requirements and organisational financial policy and procedures to staff and ensure compliance
- Prepare and review, on a monthly basis, donor-specific bank reconciliation statements and receipt/deposit reconciliation
- Support the preparation of financial reports based on donor requirements
- Ensure proper filing (electronic and hard copy) of grant financial reports
- Periodically update the financial reporting matrix
- Ensure partners use the standard reporting templates and formats for their reports
- Prepare the monthly project burn rate
- Prepare the monthly project cost recovery tracker
- Support the preparation of the project funding/grant tracker
- Prepare the project expenditure tracker
- Support the country office in recharging costs to the project
- Fulfill Plan International’s child safeguarding and other policies at all times
- Ensure filing of travel advances, per diem calculations and travel reconciliation forms are reviewed
- Ensure all travel and purchase advances are liquidated on time
- Perform any other project-related duties as specified by the finance manager and/or the finance manager, development
Requirements
- Degree in Accounting or equivalent
- Three years, minimum, of experience in donor funds administration
- Experience in working with sub-grantees
- Fluency in local language and English
- Knowledge of and experience with the key donors in the industry (strongly preferred)
- Experience in providing capacity development assistance to sub-grantees (strongly preferred)
- Excellent and demonstrable experience in grant and financial management (desirable)
- Knowledge and understanding of Nigeria’s policy environment (desirable)
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills including good listening skills, influencing, negotiation and coaching (desirable)
- Sound judgement and decision-making in complex situations (desirable)
- Strong emotional intelligence including self-awareness (desirable)
- Very strong commitment to continuous learning (desirable)
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