Finance Manager at Centre for Family Health Initiative (CFHI)

Ref.: 17000E

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage all accounting transactions
• Prepare budget forecasts
• Publish financial statements in time
• Handle monthly, quarterly and annual closings
• Reconcile accounts payable and receivable
• Ensure timely bank payments
• Compute taxes and prepare tax returns
• Manage balance sheets and profit/loss statements
• Report on the company's financial health and liquidity
• Audit financial transactions and documents
• Reinforce financial data confidentiality and conduct database backups when necessary
• Comply with financial policies and regulations

Others:

• Ascertain records of consultants and vendors i.e. contracts, community volunteers, time sheets and invoices
• Reviews the reports from all the state finance assistants/ project managers
• Support all project procurement and the inventory/maintenance of all equipment, materials where necessary
• Other related duties as assigned

Qualifications/ Requirements

• BSc. Accounting
• At least 3-year work experience with non-profit organizations and managing various donor funds as required.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting regulations and procedures, including the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Hands-on experience with accounting software like QuickBooks
• Advanced MS Excel skills including Vlookups and pivot tables (Added advantage)
• Experience with general ledger functions
• Strong attention to details and good analytical skills
• Additional certification (CPA or CMA) is a plus
• A flair for spotting numerical mistakes

Key Competencies
Candidate must have:

• Sound knowledge of finance, financial & management accounting, budgeting and cost control principles
• Ability to analyze financial and non-financial data, prepare financial performance reports, statements and projections, and be able to understand complex systems
• Experience driving automation of financial reporting and performance measurement systems and proficiency in analytics tools including Microsoft Excel etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills and adept at cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent professional written and verbal communication and presentation skills, including proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office tools for presentation
• Tracking payments to internal and external stakeholders
• Preparing budget forecasts
• Processing tax payments and returns
• Auditing financial documents and procedures
• Reconciling bank statements