Jobs at Palladium Group

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Support senior level finance and operations staff to ensure that project deliverables are met;
•  Review financial and operational content for appropriate project reports.
•  Support the annual workplan process and other strategic planning processes 
  Assists in overseeing overall financial system implementation including controls and standards for IHP state offices
•  Reviews and maintains strong system of internal controls to ensure accurate financial reporting
•  Examines financial documents such as payroll, vouchers, invoices, delivery notes, purchase orders and other documents to ensure the completeness, accuracy, and validity of financial data
•  Monitors disbursement of funds from the project bank account(s) to ensure compliance with Palladium’s financial policies and procedures
•  Works with finance team and technical leads to manage and forecast cash needs for Nigeria offices
•  Regularly reviews cash management practices, develop, and provide feedback on cash risk mitigation strategies
  
  Required Qualifications:

• University graduate and Master's Degree in Finance, Business Administration, or other relevant masters-level degree. CPA, Chartered Accountancy, other relevant professional certification, or additional 8 years of relevant professional experience accepted as alternative to Master's Degree.
• At least 8 years of work experience in broader finance and operations management with an international organization and USG contracts preferred (including office management, HR, finance, IT, and logistics);
•  Experience directly managing finance and administration staff persons;
• Proven problem identification and resolution experience with budgeting, forecasting, banking, tax authorities, foreign currency transactions, and other related issues;
• Capacity and/or experience in designing and implementing Value for Money standards and decision-making;
• Able to communicate effectively and excellent interpersonal skills to form effective working relationships at all levels;
• High level of computer literacy;
• Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive issues and maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times;
• Cross-functional team player;
• Results oriented and attention to detail;
• Proven experience in managing expenditures within budget. 

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Project Overview and Role:

The Finance Officer (State Office) will report to and support the Finance Manager in Budget, Accounting and Financial Management functions. This position will be based in the Sokoto State Office to support state office Finance Operations

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

Ensures all finances are managed in alignment with the Nigerian government regulations, company and client’s financial policies and procedures.

• Support the Finance manager:
• to prepare, review and revise project budgets and expenditure forecasts 
  Forecast project expenditures through field office, timely submit field cash requests and manage cash flows in field office.
• Communicate and follow up with relevant suppliers, consultants, vendors, contractors and staff with regards to invoices, payments, advances or finances
• Reconcile and review invoices for payments
• Write checks and issue payments
• Ensure applicable tax withholding and deductions are taken care of as per the Nigerian laws and regulations on all payments
• Maintain up to date bank and petty cash account transaction records and supporting documentations
• Record all financial transactions in the financial templates provided by HQ, accurately and in a timely fashion
• Prepare, review and submit regular field vouchers and financial reports to Abuja Central Office as required
• Collect bank statements for the bank accounts, review cash book, and reconcile the accounts
• Support the Finance Manager to prepare, review monthly financial reports and inform/update expenditure forecast/budget on regular basis
• Support the State Office to prepare for periodic Financial audits as may be required
• Work closely with the Operations Officer for daily tasks and project management
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Grants Management Suppor
•  Review recipients’ finance vouchers

Process recipients’ invoices and payments 

Required Qualifications:

• University graduate in Financial Management, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics or other relevant field
• At least 3-5 years of work experience in broader finance, accounts and operations management with an international organization and
• USG contracts experience preferred (including office management, HR, finance, IT, and logistics); 
• Able to communicate effectively and excellent interpersonal skills to form effective working relationships at all levels;
• High level of computer literacy (proficiency in MS Excel would be added advantage)
• Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive issues and maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times;
• Cross-functional team player;
• Results oriented and attention to detail;
• Proven experience in managing expenditures within budget.

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Project Overview and Role:

The State level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will have experience working with facility level M&E ofpublic health programs. The Officer will have expertise and up-to-date knowledge and skills in M&E for health systems and healthcare provision programming, and experience working with different cadres of government. S/he must be intimately familiar with the public context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with USAID / International donor programs.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Contributes to the development and implementation of s the TO4 MELP to systematically document performance for technical team to ensure the TO4 implementation is on track;
• Generates robust evidence for programmatic learning that leads to action, decision making, and impact;
• Together with Senior MEL Manager, ensures the alignment of M&E activities with program goals and contributes to the development of annual work plans to identify TO4 targets and ensure inclusion of M&E activities;
• Monitors project activities and tracks these activities against the TO4 results framework;
• Conducts visits to LGAs as necessary for data validation to monitor the quality and completeness of data sets;
• Generates monthly indicator reports and tracking progress against key indicators;
• Works closely with the Kebbi stakeholders and trains M&E staff at the LGA, facility, and community levels to build their M&E capacity;

Contributes to the identification, analysis, and synthesis of technical knowledge and evidence-based information in intervention areas including family planning, reproductive, maternal and child health, malaria, nutrition and immunization. 

® Reports directly to Senior MEL Manager 

Required Qualifications:

 The State level Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Officer will have experience working with facility level M&E ofpublic health programs. The Officer will have expertise and up-to-date knowledge and skills in M&E for health systems and healthcare provision programming, and experience working with different cadres of government. S/he must be intimately familiar with the public context in Nigeria and have in-country experience with USAID / International donor programs. Additional qualifications include: 

• A Bachelor’s degree / HND in demography, statistics, social sciences, public health, health information management or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of progressively responsible experience designing, implementing, monitoring, evaluation and learning tasks for health and/or development projects.
• Familiarity with USAID / International indicators and standard measurement tools in the areas of reproductive health/family planning, maternal and neonatal health and other relevant technical areas.
• Competency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and ACCESS, and a statistical software package (SPSS, EPI-INFO, STATA, SAS or similar).
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work with relevant government partners, USAID, other Donors, and implementing partners.
• Good verbal, listening, writing, and intrapersonal skills essential for effective interaction among several institutions and staff involved in a broad range of activities.
• Experience at organizing and facilitating systems strengthening, capacity development and mentoring processes
• Fluent in English (written and oral communication) and Hausa.