Elite for Human Resources
Giza
Egypt

Job Title

Grants Finance Officer

Category

Accounting/Auditing

Country

Egypt

Location

in company

Status

Urgent

Salary

To Be Discussed

Description

• Preparing grant financial reports in accordance with donor requirements and ensuring their accuracy and timeliness. • Reconciliation of expenses in the reports with ledgers and accounting records • Keeping track of the funding disbursements from donors and to projects • Generating financial analysis on grant financial information that will provide management with information for decision making. • Ensuring compliance with the donor grants financial requirements. • Monitor expenditure of grants on a periodical basis and generate information that is useful for the senior staff members. • Preparation of annual budget (a complete exercise) for individual programmes, including preparation of Project Fact Sheets, review of grantee budget documents, summaries including variance explanations and budget consolidations. • Ensuring budgetary control by adequately checking all costs chargeable to the grants. • Monitoring Grant periods and ensuring that grant phase out financial requirements are adequately met and the grants are smoothly phased out. • Review funding Requests/projections from the Project Offices relevant to Grants as part of budget control. • Participate in Grant proposal development and extensions, by providing technical support in development of Grant Budgets that are in line with effective implementation of grants. • Project visits as and when required for audit as well as for their financial training purposes. • Provide support for the external audits of the projects • Any other tasks assigned by the RCOO or RFA. Qualifications: 1.Five-seven years of progressive experience in accounting and financial management and staff supervision in a non-profit, international development environment. Familiarity and understanding of accounting procedures. 2.Excellent organisational, inter-personal and communications skills. 3.Fluency in English (oral and written) and Arabic. 4.An ability to work within a small team, under pressure and meet tight deadlines. 5.Comfort and experience with using financial analysis techniques using Excel/pivot tables, data base connectivity and tools for managing data. 6.CPA or equivalent experience/education required. Knowledge of donor/grant processes and procedures is highly desirable. 7.Audit experience would be a valuable asset as would additional professional qualifications. 8.The incumbent will be required to exercise a high degree of professionalism and discretion due to the sensitive nature of the position and fiduciary responsibility involved.