Africa Regional Support Accountant at Malaria Consortium International Not for Profit Jobs Vacancies in Uganda

Job Title: Africa Regional Support Accountant

Organization: Malaria Consortium

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Africa Finance Manager

Salary: $20,160

About Malaria Consortium:

Malaria Consortium is the world’s
leading not-for-profit organisation dedicated to

the comprehensive control of
malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria
Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies,
academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure
good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical
support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for
evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. Malaria Consortium works
to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of
national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved
economic prosperity.

Job Summary: The Regional Finance team is responsible for
overseeing the finances of the country programmes including donor reporting,
budget preparation and all financial and management accounting and provides a
link between the country offices and the global organisation to ensure a
consistency of approach and high quality standards across all of Malaria
Consortium. The Africa Support Accountant will support the AFM in supporting
the region’s country finance teams to help them achieve their objectives of
timely and accurate reporting and the sound financial management of Malaria
Consortium’s portfolio of programmes in each country. In addition, the Africa
Support Accountant will provide the financial monitoring and support for a
number of Malaria Consortium’s multi country projects, which are based in the
regional office in Kampala.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Financial Management and Reporting:
Support the Africa Regional and Country Offices to:

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Prepare and maintain their accounts in
accordance with Malaria Consortium’s Financial Policies and Procedures.

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Prepare budgets and forecasts, including
the:

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Annual budget and revised forecasts.

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Mapping and phasing of budgets including
those for multi-country programmes

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Ensure timely and accurate preparation
of MCP and other external donor financial

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reporting as required

2. Financial Monitoring of Country,
Regional and Multi Country Programmes (MCP)

Work with the CFMs to monitor costs and
improve efficienciesby:

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Monitoring overhead costs and country
level BvAs

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Reviewing recharge methods

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Improving cost recovery

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Investigating variances

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Review monthly variance and burn rate
analysis on a monthly for Regional and MCP budget holders

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Review the monthly checklists and
reconciliations prepared by each country office and Offer summary feedback to
the AFM and the CFMs.

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Follow up on any issues, working with
the teams to resolve these.

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Rendering support in the coordination on
the internal audit of local offices.

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Assisting to clear audit queries and
preparation of responses

3. Compliance and Quality
Assurance in the Region:

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Conduct support visits to Countries to
help ensure quality is maintained in all aspects of financial management.

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Ensure all country finance teams are clear
on the processes and systems of financial management.

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Monitor adherence to Internal controls

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PSF accounting software:

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Be the focal point and expert user for
the region.

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Offer training on the PSF accounting
software.

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Work closely with HQ to resolve any
issues on the PSF software.

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Review donor reports for small and
medium sized grants

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Work with Partners to ensure they
understand ourrequirements and continue to adhere to them

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Sit on the regional procurement
committee to ensure compliance to MC policies and procedures, donor policies
and procedures and most significantly obtain value for money

4. Mentoring / capacity building:

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Offer finance induction to new CFMs and
non-finance staff and continue to support them.

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Act as the focal point for CFM queries

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Provide financial accounting support
to Country Directors and senior non-finance staff.

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Offer technical support to new grants
and Multicountry projects, to set up new teams, establish the finance systems
and train new finance staff

5. Financial Systems Development:

· Work
closely with the AFM to improve financial systems in the region and assist in
introducing change where requested as part of the global improvement to provide
timely and appropriatefinancial information to MC’s senior management
team, project managers and budget holders

6. Business Development

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Technically support the countries to
prepare proposal budgets for low and medium risk projects.

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Assist the Business Development Finance
Team to prepare proposals and provide cover as required.

7. Strategic Input: Provide
input into the strategic objectives of the finance team and how it can achieve
its plans.

8. Legal, security and risk
management

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Carry out spot checks, regular and
ad-hoc, in the local country offices to test the financial controls.

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Review regional fixed asset registers

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Monitor maintenance or regional assets
in accordance with MC asset management policy.

9. Human Resources:

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Provide a gap fill service for the
financial management in country programmes as required due to staff absence
from leave or resignation.

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Cover for the existing AFo FMA position
as well as some AFM duties as needed.

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Actively support and motivate the local finance
teams