Description:

• Ensure robust financial management for all grants is in place
• Fully implement organization quality assurance standards for grant financial management
• Provide clear guidelines and technical assistance to managers and sub-grantees on grant financial management requirement and hold sub-grantees accountable
• Take lead on financial reporting to donors on all grants
• Develop and/or review and finalize grant budgets and grant financial reports in accordance with donor requirements and ensuring their quality and timeliness
• Systematically collaborate with program staff in budgeting, financial reporting and review of burn rate analysis
• Track expenditures and generate monthly and quarterly burn rate analysis for each grant that will provide management with information for decision making
• Ensure budget control by adequately checking all costs that are chargeable to grants
• Monitor grant periods and ensure that financial compliance requirements for the grant are adequately met and the grants are smoothly phased out
• Track donor disbursements and review funding projections/requests from the field for each grant as part of budget control and respond accordingly
• Participate in development of budget for new proposals or for extension of existing grants and take full responsibility on accuracy and consistency of final budgets submitted to donors
• Develop capacity building programs and roll them out to finance and program staff on donor and organization grant compliance and systems
• Conduct semi-annual grant review visits, grant financial due diligence and spot checks in the field
• Coordinate all internal/ external grant reviews/ audits
• Manage a comprehensive filing system for each grant to ensure that all relevant finance related documents on the grants are maintained and available for use

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