Main Responsibilities and Tasks

Financial Management

• Supervise and manage of the company’s finance department, and consolidate company financial statements.
• Maintain general ledger chart of accounts and communicate changes with users on a periodic basis
• Monitor operating cash balance and recommend liquidation of investments.
• Contribute to and assist in the effective execution of internal and external audits, financial statement generation and regulatory submissions.
• Prepare, review and/or approve vendor requisitions for payments, 
• Prepare bank reconciliations and coordinate with bank on transactions such as positive pay, stop payments, and check clearance
• Review programs expenditures from the team line staff to ensure conformity to Financial Policies and Procedures Manual (FPPM). 
• Maintain and develop internal finance controls according to agreed upon financial manual and approved matrix.
• Payment and expense authorization control according to approved financial matrix.
• Provide recommendations to the business’s stakeholders and direct line management.
• Contribute to and assist in the effective execution of internal and external audits, financial statement generation and regulatory submissions.
• Provide operational support related to accounting activities and sequences to contribute to the overall financial processes.
• Manage departmental budgets including signing off of invoices and quotes within mandate.
• Escalate out of budgets items to the Managing Director for approval
• Sign off capital expenditure within budget. This includes approving purchase or sell decisions for desktop computers, laptops, departmental equipment etc. 
• Manage the expenditure and disbursement of resources allocated to projects
• Monitor and advise on programs and project spending and variance report as per organizational process and procedures
• Conduct orientations and trainings for the finance/accounting staff at the field level

Grants/Projects Management

• Execute all financial and accounting activities for projects and grants
• Develop and update all documentation related to grants and process payments and requests
• Manage all administrative activities and procedures
• Set a plan and strategy for the Grants financial management
• Review the financial reports of all the grants
• Conduct audit visits to support the process of approving the financial reports
• Development of all forms of reports and manage governmental and international organizations (EU, UN, USAID, etc.) related documents and procedures for grants
• Manage budgets and ensure compliant utilization of all available grants in proper manner and timing
• Ensure compliant budget allocation as per contracts and commitments 
• Communicate with all stakeholders and partners and contractors to ensure proper and compliant implementation of all projects/grants regulations and guidelines 
• Develop and present regular accounting and finance reports for all projects and support the decision making with effective and sound analysis and recommendations.