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