The Finance Director will be responsible for financial and administrative aspects of the project, including budget development and monitoring, prime award monitoring and compliance, sub award management, procurement, logistics and grants management. The Finance Director will establish and maintain sound financial management practices and ensure the project’s compliance with FHI 360 and USAID procedures, rules and regulations.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Provide leadership to finance and operations aspects of the project, including general administrative processes, financial management, sub-award management, accounting and logistics.
- Establish and maintain sound and transparent accounting and fiscal control procedures for financial, sub-award and operations aspects of project.
- Ensure compliance of financial and operations systems with FHI 360 policies and procedures and USAID rules and regulation and award requirements.
- Develop, analyze and monitor program budgets; monitor and track obligations and expenditures against budgets.
- Maintain accurate financial pipeline reports and other monthly financial reports for internal analysis and tracking purposes to be reviewed with the Project Director and other relevant FHI 360 staff members.
- Provide recommendations in consultation with TMEC leadership and relevant regional/country office staff to the project’s strategic goals in relation to the budget.
- Manage, implementing, and monitoring systems, services, staff and budgets to achieve financial and programmatic goals.
- Supervise finance personnel, including routine quality assurance checks for all financial analysis and reports.
- Provide technical assistance, as needed, to local partners on financial compliance and reporting.
- Prepare and submit annual and quarterly financial and accrual reports to USAID
- Contribute to the development of high-quality work plans, quarterly and annual reports, financial reports, and any other reports required by USAID.
- Liaise with internal and external auditors in the review of project financial management.
- Liaise with the FHI 360 Office of Compliance and Internal Audit to improve necessary documentation and or answers to questions arising from internal and external reviews or audits.
- Support the Contracts Management Services department and Project Directory to ensure proper interpretation of the award instruments when entering into financial obligations or any other contracting actions.
- Develop and implement new or revised financial policies and procedures to ensure the project is continually in line with standards for donor funds management.
- Build and train staff on financial policies and procedures to achieve TMEC and organizational goals.
Educational Background:
Master's Degree or its equivalent in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related field is required.
Skills/Experience:
- CPA, ACCA, ACA, ICAN, CIMA, CFE or any other relevant professionalcertification/qualification is preferred.
- Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience in financial management, including overseeing the finance and operations of equally large and complex projects.
- Minimum of 5 years managing sub-grants.
- Experience and deep understanding of USAID and PEPFAR funded programs is required.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating audit activities and managing reporting, budget development and analysis, accounts payable and receivable, general ledger, payroll and accounting for an international NGO.
- Excellent analytical, numerical and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge in generally-accepted accounting, budgeting and fiscal control principles.
- Relevant skills in automated accounting software systems and database spreadsheets.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications such as MS Word and MS PowerPoint, with an expert knowledge of MS Excel.
- Experience building capacity in financial management of community-based organizations and implementing partners.
- Demonstrated ability to create and maintain effective working relations with NGO partners, community-basedorganizations and international donor agencies.
- Demonstrated leadership qualities, depth and breadth of financial management expertise
- Strong interpersonal, writing and oral presentation skills.
- Ability to work on problems of complex scope that require in depth evaluations of data and various factors.
- Proven proactive skills in identifying cost savings, cost avoidance and efficiency opportunities.
- Ability to manage tight deadlines and deliver high volumes of work with minimal supervision.
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Listing Stats
Post Date:
Oct 22 2018
Active Until:
Nov 22 2018
Hiring Organization:
Fhi 360
industry:
Nonprofit