About the role
The
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is seeking a Project
Accountant to support the Manager, Finance and
Compliance through effective quality management service to the organisation.
This role will be offered on a two (2) year fixed term contract, subject to
availability of funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The
position holder will be expected to provide and support the financial
management of a portfolio of donor relationships with an emphasis on non-US
donors, ensuring compliance with contract terms, preparing and reviewing
reports to donors and supporting donor audits.
Key Responsibilities include.
- Ensuring that reviews of financial performance
are carried out to timetable and that explanations of financial variances
and changes to forecast assumptions are recorded.
- Support the preparation of annual consolidated
accounts and the external statutory audit by producing reports, supporting
documentation and explanations as required.
- Preparing interim and final donor financial
statements, cumulative summaries and periodic forecasts for review by
finance managers, ensuring that these are accurate, that they are
consistent with reported programme activity and that they are produced in accordance
with agreed deadlines.
- Ensuring that donor reports and forecasts comply
with grant contracts, particularly for those donors with very specific
detailed information requirements.
- Ensuring that transactions and cost allocations
charged to grants are compliant with expenditure restrictions specified
within donor agreements, and with donor requirements for allowable
expenditure.
- Check and close donor grants that have reached
their completion date, ensuring that final reports have been submitted,
all funds are received, and contractual obligations met.
- Monitor the operation of GAIN’s financial
processes including procurement and payments, ensuring that published
procedures are followed, reporting any significant breaches and approving
transactions in line with delegated authority.
- Draw on observations and analysis of processes
and procedures for financial management and donor accounting to provide
suggestions, recommendations and observations for improvements to finance
managers.
About you
- The ideal candidate should have demonstrable
experience of the financial management of donor grants. Experience of
USAID, DFID, Dutch MFA, EU grants are highly preferred. In addition, they
should have experience in multicurrency reporting and accounting providing
financial business partnering to a portfolio of projects and supporting in
the financial management of these projects.
- In addition to this, the postholder should be an
effective communicator, demonstrated in financial and narrative reporting
and verbal explanations. They should be comfortable working with a wide
variety of multicultural stakeholders.
- The postholder should have experience
interacting with accounting systems, experience of NAV and/or Jet
Reporting would be good to have. An education background where fully
qualified or part qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or
equivalent). Progression towards qualification an advantage.
How to Apply
