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
How to Apply
