Finance and Budget Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities
Grants Management

Creation of new grants based on approved project or POW budgets and requesting for their approval in Umoja
Creation of grants project structure models to address donor and organizational reporting requirements
Grant accounting including management of released and unreleased budgets
Creation of project down payments against approved P1 grants
Recording of project expenditures as reported by implementing partners
Monitor and follow up on scheduled reporting by implementing partners
Month-end and year-end closing processes including transactional analysis and clean-up of processed data
Review of Programme Support income charges on project basis and correction as necessary
Review and management of the end to end processes of grants management
Review and clean-up of converted GM/FM financial data including expiring and closure of grants and projects

Funds Management

Execute budget distribution in Umoja based on approved appropriations, redeployments and allotments
Creation of funds pre-commitment, commitments and funds blocks against authorized budgets and the necessary approvals
Monitoring budget utilization against approved expenditure classes to stop the budget is not overspent
Payable management – tracking of invoices to ensure timely payments to vendors
Receivables monitoring to ensure down payments are executed/offset against approved grants
Posting of approved adjustments against approved budgets

Project Management

Design and creation of new project structures in SAP for different activities, outputs and expected accomplishments
Modification of the existing project structures as necessary after approval
Closure and revision of the projects and project structures
Post-implementation data clean up and validation of Umoja financial data

Donor Reporting

Creation of donor reports against approved projects, grants and donor agreements
Monitoring of donor agreement milestones to ensure that the appropriate reports are generated on timely basis

Perform other duties as may be required

Execute any other duties as may be required for the efficient and effective functioning of the Finance and Budget management function in ROA

Qualifications/special skills

Academic Qualifications: Academic Qualifications: Completion of High school diploma or equivalent is required. Supplementary training in Accounting and Finance is highly desirable. Administrative and business training is required.
Experience: A minimum of 5 years of progressive work experience is required. Experience with an international organization with accounting and financial management roles is required

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