Grants Finance Manager

Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Financial management Accounting or a related relevant field Professional qualification such as: ACCA, CMA, CPA or MCIPS) with membership to a professional body is a must.
  

• Over 10 years’ experience in managing funds/grant funding preferably with large and complex donors and knowledge of DFID, ECHO, UN, USG contract and grant compliance requirements.
  

• Practical knowledge and experience in the grants financial management budgeting and work-plan development, project management, contracts management, partnership management of Bi-lateral and multilateral organisations and government grants. Highly organized person with high level of integrity
  

Grants Financial planning, monitoring and reporting

• Ensure timely and accurate grants financial reports submission to donors and other stakeholders
  

• Ensure the analysis of grant expenditure for management action to help in monitoring the burn rate for grants and special projects.
  

Partner Management Financial Analysis, Reporting & Advisory-RH, programs and Leadership

• To perform checks and analysis of NR Grant posting and ensure that correcting entries are posted onto the respective grants and trouble shoot entries to identify cause and solution.
  

• To continuously monitor the BVA and ensure updating the budgets with any agreed changes to them.
  

Master Data entry and update Systems/tools Development & Oversight

• To ensure that all incoming grants are properly and correctly created into SAP as per process guidelines. To ensure that staff update the drives with all new grants in the system.
  

• To ensure timely update the report/tool for tracking grants entry and closure in SAP and provide progressive weekly updates to HF