Financial Analyst, Systems & Reporting at Save The Children

ROLE PURPOSE: This position supports the integrity of the overall finance systems within the country office and ensures timely donor and management reporting.

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Financial Analysis

• Management account reporting
• Awards Audit management including planning and reporting

Budget Support

• Prepare Budget monitoring reports and share at monthly Finance meeting and reporting to RO
• Preparation of SOF loaders for upload into aggressor including amendment to SOF loaders
• Partner Monitoring and capacity Building of field office finance and non-staff

Donor Reporting

• Prepare Donor Financial reports for SCIN awards
• Project kick off and close out processes (Exchange loss/Gain elimination, debt recovery)

Other Duties

• Monthly recharges processing and posting
• National staff salary recharge
• System maintenance (Fund Summary, budget mapping; DEA creations ) for all SCI awards including liaison with relevant stakeholders, project managers, awards, members and possibly donors
• Others as maybe assigned by your line managers

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Essential:

· A Bachelors/HND degree in Accounting with additional relevant professional qualification
· 5-7 years working experience in relevant field,
· Proven experience in financial management and producing appropriate management information to support strategy development and decision-making by budget holders and programme implementers
· Proven training experience to all levels of staff, both informal (on the job coaching) and formal (structured training courses).
· Proven analytical skills and ability to translate analysis into appropriate, feasible and practical implementation plans and goals.
· An understanding of development work in order to communicate effectively with Members/Donors and programme staff on funding sources and programme issue
· Experience of developing guidelines and formats to support staff in donor applications and reporting with particular reference to USAID grants
· Knowledge of major donor funding sources and grants application processes
· Thorough understanding of interdepartmental relationships, dynamics and functioning in an overseas programme setting
· Commitment to the aims and principles of Save the Children
· Ability to translate complex, technical and financial issues into a language understandable by non-finance staff
· Computer literate (including working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Access) and competency in development of spread-sheets and databases
· Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate clearly with thoughtful and accurate information
· Willingness to travel to field offices and work in difficult environment from time to time
· Ability to work within a multicultural and multi-religious settings

Desirable:

• Experience of Save the Children financial accounting packages (eg Agresso), policies, systems and procedures.
• International experience preferably gained within an INGO in a relief/emergency setting
• Proven experience in grants auditing especially of USAID/DFID grant audits