The Consortium Finance Officer will support a Consortium of partners implementing Health and Nutrition projects for SHF Grants by ensuring Financial and grants management and Internal control and information systems are in place and functional. The Consortium Finance Officer will support in receiving and reviewing partner expenditures and reports, and preparing consolidated Financial reports for the donor. In the event of a major humanitarian emergency, the role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Management:

• Responsible for reviewing purchase requests, purchase orders, and payment requests for the SHF Projects while ensuring proper coding, budget availability, and value for money for all transactions.
• Support in reviewing the partners' transfer requests with bank account details to ensure accurate and reconciled information for the timely processing of funds to partners.
• Ensure that all disbursement vouchers have payment proofs attached and are well-achieved in each partner’s respective folders on SharePoint.
•  Preparation and follow-up of invoices for partner expenditure, as necessary.

Financial Reporting:

• Review of Financial reports and conduct Financial verification of the records submitted by implementing partners.
• Working with the consortium finance manager to ensure that the identified issues are clearly communicated to partners and addressed on time. 
• Prepare the journal vouchers for all validated Financial reports and ensure prompt uploads and filing to the respective folders on SharePoint. 
• Ensure donor compliance during reporting in terms of templates and budgetary ceilings as applicable. • Ensure all advances are reconciled at the month end as per the advance policy.
• Ensure that all outstanding invoices are paid before the end of the month to ensure they are recorded within the same month they are incurred.

Fraud Risk Mitigation and Response:

• Maintain Sub grants tracker updated all the time and reconciled monthly.
• In case of suspicions of fraud, ensure the case is addressed as per the policy. 

Training and Capacity Building:

• Identify Financial management capacity gaps and training needs assessments for both Ʊnance and non-Ʊnance partner staff and provide hands-on support and training for proper and effective use of resources.
• Conduct support to field offices and partner offices to reconcile accounting records and provide relevant technical support as may be required. 

Audit Preparedness:

• Work with the Finance team and partner organizations to ensure the Programme is sufficiently audit-ready.
• Ensure that the issues identified during the Financial verification process of partner organizations are well documented and addressed.
• Ensure that any actions or recommendations included in the case of the management letter resulting from any audits are followed up and reconciled.
• Coordinate donor audits.

Donor Compliance:

• Ensure that the programme(s) of the Health and Nutrition Consortium are implemented in line with donor policies and compliance corresponding to finance and grants management (for example, budget line flexibility adhered to, expenditures eligible in line with policy, etc.)

Awards (Grants Management):

• Reviewing BVA reports for Partners and ensuring that the spending is as per the approved budget. Any cost incurred and not in the approved budget should be flagged to the consortium management unit. 

Other duties:

• Provide support to HR on payroll preparation and disbursement.
•  Support the Country office in monthly and annual closing processes and reconciliations.
•  Provide support to Logistics on logistical matters that belong to SHF grants.

• A minimum of three (3) years of accounting experience. A Bachelor’s degree in accounting or Finance is preferred. 

Essential:

• At least 3 years relevant working experience, preferably with International NGOs, with a thorough understanding of GAAP and major donor standard requirements.

• Good financial management skills with knowledge of computer Accounting Packages and a good understanding of major donors’ financial requirements, conditions, and Government budgets and tax policies.
• Self-motivated with demonstrated ability to generate financial reports and meet set deadlines, and with good integrity.
• Team player with good interpersonal/communication, documentation, and facilitation skills and the ability to work under minimal supervision. Computer literacy and fluency in English and Arabic are a MUST.
• Ability to maintain personal professional development and competencies on financial issues.
•  Computer literacy skills – MS Office applications, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, spreadsheets.
•  Good analytical skills and problem-solving.
•  Ability and willingness to undertake periodic field travel to up-country and in insecure areas.

Desirable:

•  Prior experience working with partners.
•  Prior experience working with donor funding.

IMPORTANT:

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interviews.
• No accommodation will be offered. 

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