Plan,Grants Accountant Jobs in Rwanda

Job
Description
Position
Grants
Accountant
Grade
D1
Department
& Location
Finance,
Country Office
Date
June
2017
Reports
to
(position):
Country
 Finance Manager
Purpose: 
How
does this post support Plan’s strategy and mission?
  • To
    handle the grant staff salaries in the system and monitor the timesheet
    allocations to ensure the adherence with Plan Rwanda cost recovery
    policy
  • To
    establishthe overhead rates applicable to all funded grants and
    maintainthe monthly charges
  • To
    prepare the financial due to donors, auditors and Plan Management.
  • To
    handle professionally all grant finance information in SAP
Dimensions
of Role:
Financial
measures or statistics relevant to post such as budget; list of direct and
indirect reports
  • This
    position has no direct reports
Typical
Responsibilities – Key End Results of Position:
Grants
start up:
  • Create
    the sponsored program codes and create all grant budgets in SAP
  • Mapping
    all grant budget lines with the relevant WBS
  • Track
    changes in grant budgets to ensure consistency between program and grant
    module in SAP
  • Contribute
    to grants preparations; start up workshops, processes and agreements.
Grants
processes
  • Maintain
    transparent detailed reporting systems to enable colleagues,
    PlanManagement and external parties to understand the relevant budgets
  • Ensure
    that all financial transactions and reporting procedures are compliant
    with the specific financial requirements of the donors.
  • Provide
    support to grants staff during grants implementation on financial follow
    up and monitoring in line with FAD.
  • Maintain
    grants files and archive financial reports in line with finance policies
    and guidelines.
  • Review
    and sign grants advances, requisition forms, payment requests on Country
    Office level.
  • Prepare
    and follow up on the grants partner settlements journal voucher and follow
    up with finance team to ensure timely submission of partners required
    reports and related documents.
  • Communicate
    professionally and in a timely fashion with partners to ensure effective
    grant management and sharing the financial information
  • Follow
    up and update all grants financial systems and share information with
    related staff.
  • Doing
    regular monitoring to the grant currency and to track the currency
    fluctuations
  • Confirm
    salary allocations and general and management charges to each grant on a
    monthly basis. Ensure both are in compliance with budget and grant
    funding parameters.
  • Ensures
    accuracy of the timesheet in the system reconciling with Plan charging
    instruction and provides technical assistance to staff for preparing their
    timesheet every month
  • Calculate
    and record intercompany payables and receivables and prepare invoices
    between CO / field offices /IH/RO and NOs as well.
Reporting
  • Prepare
    grants financial reports to ensure that management and donors receive the
    needed data with the required quality standards in line with Plan policies
    and guidelines.
  • Contribute
    in the FFMR and Quarterly Reports, update the grant section only.
  • Coordinate
    with the finance team at PUs for grant reporting in terms of
    consolidation, reviewing and the final submission to GFM for final review.
  • Prepare
    the monthly reconciliation SAP reports to ensure consistency between
    program and grant module
  • Prepare
    monthly report on cost recovery to ensure that support staff
    salaries and operating costs are recorded properly and associated to the
    relevant funding source
  • On
    a monthly basis prepare program accounting spreadsheet for assigned
    grants. Ensure all costs associated with grant are properly recorded and
    all costs charged against the grant are appropriate and adjust as
    necessary.
  • Contribute
    in the annual budget preparation for Plan Rwanda and tracking the regular
    updates on grant budget information
Grants
Partner Support
  • Contribute
    to the partner financial assessments in line with Plan policies and
    guidelines.
  • Review
    the partnership agreementsand ensure the compliance with the grant
    requirements
  • Conduct
    regular visits topartners to do the financial review and provide the
    appropriate support
  • Contribute
    in develop plans for building the capacity of all Plan Rwanda partners
  • Participate
    in the training needs analysis and identify the relevant trainings needed
    to strengthen the partners capacity in financial management
Dealing
with Problems:
Complexity
of problems handled & the degree of investigation, analysis, & creative
thinking required solving them
  • Monitoring
    budgets and grants
Communications
and Working Relationships:
Working
contacts inside and outside the organization; include the purpose and level
(high, medium, low) of the contact
  • This
    position works closely with Finance team
  • This
    position works closely with Plan Rwanda management
Knowledge,
Skills, Behaviors, and Experience Required to Achieve Role’s Objectives:
Minimum
Qualifications:
  • University
    degree in Accounting or other related field. CPA, ACCA certifications is
    an advantage.
Minimum
Experience:
  • Minimum
    of 3 years’ experience in an Accounting role, preferably with NGO
    experience
Job
Skills:
  • Analytical
    abilities
  • Communication
    abilities
  • Teamwork
    abilities
  • Report
    writing abilities
  • English
    Language
  • Computer
    skills
Physical
Environment and Demands:
  • Typical
    office environment
Level
of Contact with Children:
Low
level
:       
low level of interaction with children
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