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Finance Grants Manager position( 2 year contract)

Finance Grants Manager position( 2 year contract)

Set ConsultingWhite River, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

SUMMARY : POSITION INFO :

Finance and Grant Manager

Market-related Salary Package

Mpumalanga, Cape Town or Johannesburg

Role Purpose

An International organisation is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced Accountant for a large and exciting program addressing wildlife issues in the South Africa / Mozambique landscape. The programme focuses on enhanced community-based approaches to address illegal wildlife trade and providing support to law enforcement. Our work is implemented through a range of civil society and government partnerships.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Tertiary qualification - Financial / Accounting degree or diploma with minimum five years’ experience

as an Accountant.

  • Proven expertise in managing effective donor project cycle management process in terms of

    • financial management and reporting.

  • Minimum two years’ experience of financial management and administration in complex donor

    • project context which include multiple grant relationships with private sector, NGO and government

    entities.

  • Computer literate : MS Excel advanced level.
  • Familiarity with Oracle / SAP / Oracle's NetSuite is highly advantageous.

    • Responsibilities

    1. Provide financial and grant management

  • Assist in establishing and monitoring core and project partner budgets.
  • Prepare statutory financial statements up to and including the Balance Sheet, Income and Cash Flow

    • Statements, with supporting working papers and schedules.

  • Facilitate budget revision and realignment as required and communicate regularly with programme

    • staff in this regard.

  • Maintain the Programme budget and cash flow projections, including a monthly expenditure

    • tracking for each objective area and core cost expenditure.

  • Manage quarterly and monthly financial planning and budget requests and process month end

    • journals.

  • Perform bank and balance sheet reconciliations and validate balances of trial balance on a monthly

    • basis.

  • Track burn rate and expenditure of obligated funding and communicate progress through

    • monthly processes with programme staff.

  • Assist with oversight of partner contracts and tracking of cost share contributions across partnerships.
  • Validate and manage correctness of debtors and creditor accounts.
  • Monitor the accuracy of all reports generated by Netsuite and import yearly budget into Netsuite.

    • 2. Provide financial and grant compliance and oversight to the Programme

    3. Perform further duties in collaboration with the Programme Chief of Party