Finance Manager

Qualifications and Experience:

• Qualified accountant in recognised global body, ACA or CIMA
  
• Significant experience with 3-years in a financial management managerial position
  
• Highly familiar with cost accounting standards and management of sub-contracts and sub-grants with partners
  
• Past exposure and experience working on large scale projects and managing teams across multiple locations
  
• Previous experience of providing data to evidence value for money on a project.
  
• Working knowledge of rules and regulations of donors and their application
  
• Experience of working with DFID, GF, USAID, BMGF and other donor grants
  
• Experience of working on a payment by results contract
  

Management Accounting (40%)

• Understand and implement grant management policies, procedures, and practices, and provide policy, guidance, and interpretation to project staff and partners
  
• Manage sub-granting mechanism to partner organisations
  
• Ensure smooth operation of technical efforts and field activities by providing accounting, management and logistical support to facilitate the implementation of project activities.
  

Financial Accounting (40%)

• Oversee all administrative, operational and financial management systems according to Malaria Consortium’s standard operating procedures
  
• Prepare Balance Sheet checklist each month for review by the Country Finance Manager
  
• Evaluate the financial impact of management decisions, ensuring that the donor receives value for money and that all financial transactions undertaken are in line with Malaria Consortium’s and the donor’s policies
  

Value for Money (15%)

• Assist the Project Manager in preparing a Value for Money (VFM) Action Plan, acceptable to the donor, with time bound deliverable examples of economy, efficiency, and effectiveness. The Action Plan should be agreed with the donor within six months of the start of the project.
  
• Create a mapping of project costs (including unit costs) that will enable the programme to control cost, convert inputs efficiently into outputs, and obtain the maximum possible outcomes.
  

Human Resources (5%)

• Provide finance induction to new State Finance Officers and non-finance staff in the project providing on-going support to the same people
  
• Feed into the performance reviews of finance staff in the project
  
• Highlight any financial capacity issues to the Country Finance Manager and Project Manager, making recommendations of any action required