About US:
GOAL is an international humanitarian agency dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the poorest of the poor. We are a non-denominational, non-governmental and non-political organisation. GOAL Uganda country project focuses on two of GOAL’s three strategic sectors: Health (including WASH and health accountability programming); and Livelihoods. GOAL Uganda mainstreams HIV, gender, child protection and the environment/DRR across all programming. GOAL works on a district focused approach, and uses a mixture of direct implementation and partnerships with local civil society organisations, private sector partners and District Local Government to give effect to our mission.
Job Summary: The Grants Finance Officer will offer support to the Grants Manager in building the capacity of partners, review of partner financial reports, carrying out internal audits and partner’s financial assessment, coordinating partner audits and ensuring that the objectives agreed upon are appropriately fulfilled.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Support the capacity building of partner organization financial systems
Conduct financial training to partner’s management;
Carry out one to one capacity building to partners finance personnel on a monthly basis;
Carry out financial assessment for each partner every year there is a project to be funded;
Coordinate individual or group external audits for every partner each year;
2. Reporting and Documentation:
Prepare and submit report to Grants Manager based on your monthly work plan;
Responsible for file management of all grants documents.
3. Support to partner grants management:
Conduct financial review of all partners’ proposal/budgets prior to further review by the Grants Manager.
Review all partners finance reports and following up on any queries before forwarding to Grants Manager for approval;
Timely updating of partners disbursements tracker;
Ensuring partner closure out procedure have been properly adhered to whenever a grant comes to an end.
4. Other responsibilities:
Present partner performance updates to the programme grants monitoring team during monthly Programme Meetings;
Timely preparation of partner disbursement requests;
Provide support to partners in preparation of proposal Budget for upcoming projects;
In charge of the compilation and forward for review GIK communications with partners;
Ensuring agreed actions are followed up and closed within agreed time frame;
Providing partner external auditors with any information required from GOAL
Offer technical support to GOAL finance team whenever needed.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
The applicant must hold a Business and/or Accounting degree with a recognised institution
Professional Accounting qualification i.e. ACCA part/fully qualified. Other recognised professional accounting accreditation will be considered
At least three years of working experience
Two years’ experience with an external audit firm will be an added advantage
Previous experience within the development/NGO sector
Applicants with a track record in Grants Management will have an advantage
Skills and experience with capacity building is an added advantage
Prior Irish Aid/DFID experience is desired
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants should send their applications which must include at least 4 reference contacts (2 professional, 2 character references, including your supervisor and the most recent/previous employer), and daytime contact number to; The Human Resource Manager, GOAL Uganda via E-mail to: AdminKampala@ug.goal.ie
NB: Please do not attach certificates and indicate the Position applied for in the email subject.
Deadline: 29th January 2016