Job Description

• Provide day-to-day leadership, management, and oversight of the project’s finance team (2-4 people)
• Review and consolidate monthly financial reports to ensure accuracy and to provide regular feedback to senior management;
• Ensure all financial plans, invoices, reports, and other financial documents and transactions are accurate, timely, and consistent with Save the Children and USAID guidelines and regulations;
• Verify that appropriate segregation of duties exists to ensure effective support of field operations and to protect the integrity of the country office finance and administrative operations;
• Encourage a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.

Budget Management

• Prepare and monitor budgets to ascertain that spending occurs as planned and that variances are anticipated, noted, and corrected; ensure that key program personnel are aware of budgetary resources and are able to monitor their budgets respectively;
• Perform financial review of purchase requests, purchase orders, and payment requests to ensure compliance with Save the Children’s policies and procedures and donors grants and contracts requirements;
• Oversee sub grant monitoring and compliance including organizational assessments, review of financial reports/ advance requests, and financial tracking; develop sub grant monitoring plans; perform and document compliance visits;
• Supervise the finance and operations staff including performance evaluation and revising job descriptions as necessary. Develop the capacity of the team and facilitate their professional growth;
• Monitor burn rates, advise on spend projections and maintain and up-date the status of obligated funds

Financial Reporting

• Prepare and revise finance and operation guidelines in order that they adhere to SC and USAID requirements;
• Prepare quarterly reports, consolidated annual fiscal report, cumulative life of project report, and any other required donor submissions;
• Manage the reporting component of the award including reconciling timesheets with financial reports; oversee administrative duties as needed

Required Qualifications