Job Title: Grant Accountant
Company: Plan International
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
Experience: 3 years
Location: Bauchi, Nigeria
Job Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit
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Plan International is an independent child-centred international development organisation committed to advancing the rights of children and fight against poverty. Plan has no religious, political and government affiliation. For over 75 years, we have supported girls and boys and their communities around the world to gain the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to claim their rights, free themselves from poverty and live positive fulfilling lives. Plan currently works in 70 countries including Nigeria.
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Plan International officially started operations in Nigeria in 2014 and works to strengthen and promote the rights of children. Our programme is currently focused on basic education; improve community health services, youth and citizens' participation in governance and creating economic opportunities and livelihoods for the poor, building resilient communities through our emergency and humanitarian response. Plan Nigeria works with communities, civil society organisations, development partner government at all levels and the private sector.
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We are currently implementing the Global Affairs Canada funded MNCH projects: Strengthening Health Outcomes for Women and children (SHOW) in Sokoto and Bauchi Opportunities for Responsive Neonatal and maternal health (BORN) in Bauchi state.
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Purpose: – Ensure financial accountability for grants according to Plan and donor requirements. – Provide timely and accurate financial information on grants. – Act as finance focal person for finance-related grants issues (budgeting, cash flow management, reporting, auditing etc).
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Duties and Responsibilities: – Participate in the preparation of grants-related Country Budget and its subsequent modification. – Maintain a budgetary control system to monitor grant budgets vrs expenditures and advice management on variances and corrective actions required. – Review and make recommendations to Grants Manager on grants related POs. – Prepare regular cash flow forecasts/funding requirements for donor-specific bank accounts. – Monitor funding requirements for donor-specific hank accounts and liaise with the Finance Manager and Grants Manager to ensure availability of adequate funds to meet forecast expenditure requirements. – Regularly reconcile funds receipts and expenditures on donor-specific hank accounts to ensure that they match. – Ensure timely preparation and review of donor-specific bank reconciliation statements and receipts/deposits reconciliations, – Prepare and update financial reporting maths for grants. – Ensure that grant transactions reports as per GL Smartlist match expenditures reported on the SAP and discrepancies corrected on a timely basis. – Monitor and advice the status of grants on the SAP. – Ensure that grant financial reports are timely and accurately prepared in the required formats as per donor contracts and grant agreements.. – Provide quarterly, year-end and other grants financial reports and analysis as required for management as per required instructions. – Ensure proper filing (electronic and hard copy) of grants financial reports. – Prepare and update matrix of grant-required audits. – Support the Grants Manager on the preparation, conduct and finalization of grant-required audits. – Prepare all required information prior to the arrival of grant auditors
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Qualifications and Experience: – University degree in Accounting and/or Level 2 of a professional accounting qualification – 3-5 years experience in a similar role – Experience in the NGO sector preferably with child-related development issues. would bean advantage
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Travel requirements: – This position entails 20% traveling within program areas.
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