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JOB TITLE: Finance Officer
JOB LOCATION: Ekiti
Employment Type: Contract
JOB DETAILS:
- The organization is looking to recruit a State Finance Officer in Ekiti state.
- The State Finance Officer will provide oversight and guidance to the project on all tasks related to finance and operations.
Responsibilities
- Supervise and develop the capacity of staff such that they can provide consistent financial management support to the project teams.
- Ensure the team provides a full range of financial support with a particular focus on accurate, timely and sophisticated budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis, financial monitoring and reporting.
- Ensure team is using standard approaches and best practices Provide strategic support and guidance to the project team in all areas related to project financial management.
- Ensure that appropriate reviews, controls, and strategies are in place and managed to provide alerts of potential problems and allow for corrective actions
- Lead the annual work plan budgeting processes working with project and office leadership.
- Oversee the development of budgets and financial projections for all funding sources
- Work with project team to ensure budgets are reflective of planned activities, are feasible to implement, planned costs in compliance with donor regulations, and value for money.
- Oversee and/or perform the preparation of routine financial analysis and reporting, both for internal use and external reporting.
- Oversee and/or perform the analysis of financial data with the goal of identifying trends or issues critical to inform Project Director and leadership’s management of projects and portfolios.
- Provide support to address any issues found and provide strategic guidance to prevent future issues.
- Working with project teams, lead any reporting exercises that apply to multiple projects, e.g., annual PEPFAR Analysis.
- Implement standard procedures and forms that promote and/or ensure program compliance with the project contract terms and conditions
- Review and approve cost share valuation.
- Support proposal development by overseeing or doing cost research, math checks or other activities as requested.
Qualifications
- A Post-graduate Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or other related fields relevant to the position requirements.
- At least four (4) years experience in the administrative and financial management of large, complex projects of which at least two (2) years were in the field of international development.
- Familiarity with compliance to Federal Acquisition Regulations required.
- Professional qualification in accounting (ACA, ACCA, CPA)
- Experience in the management of USG funded projects and a track record in developing and managing large budgets, analyzing spending against budget, and internal and external reporting is required
- Excellent Excel skills required (including data extraction, manipulation, pivoting, etc.)
- Proficiency in other accounting software
- Excellent analytical skills, high attention to detail required.
- Resident in Ekitistate or a neighbouring state
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required with the ability to operate in a culturally diverse organization, and communicate to all levels within the organization
- High level of oral and written fluency in English required.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title and State as the subject of the email. E.g “State Finance Officer – Ekiti”
Note
- Indicate the State of interest in the body of your email.
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the positions will be closed once candidates are identified.
- Candidates resident in Ekiti state are preferred
Deadline: July 30, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Finance Officer - Receivables |