Overview
This position is the focal person for the IRC Nigeria’s Budget and Grants financial reporting function, responsible for managing day-to-day budget and grants budgeting and reporting tasks.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the preparation and regular updating of the Nigeria Fiscal Year Country Operating Budget.
- Prepare and consolidate budgets for new proposals and revise existing budgets.
- Prepare new Category code budgets (D2 codes) and look up codes for new grants, perform upload in Integra.
- Prepare and update spending plans for all active grants.
- Review budget spending against spending plans / actual spending and advise relevant staff.
- Request feedback on all over/under spending from budget holders.
- Participate in monthly BVA panel and share spending analysis.
- Attend and provide input to Grants Opening, Project Implementation meetings - PIM and Grant Closing Meetings.
- Provide support and feedback on BvA reports.
- Propose adjustment entries required for BvA reports and grant financial reports.
- Prepare grants for external donor financial reports for review and sign off.
- Ensure reports follow the donor reporting template and are submitted on time.
- Provide review on actual charges transactions and advise on key donor compliance requirements.
- Provide analysis and guidance on staff coverage, salary mapping and Shared Program Cost –SPC coverage and allocations.
- Perform the Finance verification of Purchase Requests.
- Work closely with the Partnership unit in the management of partnership and consortium projects.
- Assist in conducting regular staff training and induction sessions on Budgeting and reporting topics.
- Build the capacity of the budgeting and reporting finance team.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of progressive work experience in a non-profit setting in budgeting and financial reporting
- Working experience on major donors funding UNOCHA, WFP, UKAID, FCDO, ECHO, BHA(OHA) USAID, OFDA, EU Trust Fund, SIDA, CAD, etc
Qualifications
• Minimum of bachelor’s degree or HND in accounting and finance.
