Finance Manager Job in Kenya - NRC

Role and responsibilities

Generic Responsibilities

  • Ensure adherence with policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines and with ACAPS financial system
  • Maintain overall budget control over attributed budgets and grants, as well as contribute to maintain control and ensure financial quality control of the ACAPS Master Budget
  • Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
  • Ensure proper filing of documents 
  • Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function

Specific Responsibilities

  • Ensure financial quality control and oversight of the attributed budgets and suggest corrective action if/when required.
  • Lead the financial management of attributed grants for the entire project cycle including budgeting, monitoring and reporting. 
  • Lead the preparation for financial donor audits, ensuring compliance with ACAPS, donor, and local requirements. 
  • Conduct financial reviews across the project cycle, including grant kick-offs, budget modifications, and grant closures.
  • Support the Budget Holder in financial discussions with donors, including negotiations on grant financial requirements, and other modifications.
  • Follow up on Income received from donors
  • Check that expenses are booked to the appropriate project accurately and in a timely manner. 

  • Grant budget availability check for Purchase Requisitions.
  • Prepare balance sheet schedules to check prepayments, deposits, account payables
  • Participate in the development, deployment, and integration of a new ERP system for ACAPS
  • Review the bank reconciliation and monitor the cash-flow level
  • Ensure capacity building and mentoring of finance and non-finance staff, including management in all finance related matters. 
  • Participate in the ACAPS Master budget development and monitoring.
  • Perform other duties in the department as appropriate.

Qualifications

Competencies

Professional competencies

  • Recognised professional and academic qualifications
  • Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience
  • Experience from working in complex and volatile contexts desirable
  • Experience from working in humanitarian context desirable  
  • Experience in ERP system implementation (Agresso/Sage/Sun System), financial analysis, and donor compliance 
  • Skilled in developing financial tools and systems for budgeting, monitoring, and reporting.
  • Proficiency in MS Office Excel
  • Excellent time management skills and ability to organise multiple, simultaneous tasks, and deliver results within a specified period
  • Demonstrated problem solving skills
  • Fluency in English, both written and verbal. Fluency in Dutch is an asset

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