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• Maintain and/or oversee the maintenance of
  accurate, comprehensive, and up to date financial records using approved
  accounting/bookkeeping software.
• Prepare and or supervise the timely and
  complete preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports
  in accordance with UOMB policies and guidelines.
• Maintain regular communications with all
  members of UOMB and ensure that timely and complete financial support is
  provided.
• Transfer and disburse funds expeditiously,
  including issuing checks and vouchers, to fulfill obligations incurred by
  UOMB within the guidelines of the bureau and finance and administration
  policy.
• Prepare procedures and programs for monitoring
  and analyzing program budgets, which allow accurate projection of
  expenditures and comparisons of actual and budgeted spending.
• Exercise independent discretion and
  judgment in continually exploring opportunities for cost-cutting,
  cost-sharing and rational use of the bureau’s resources, and advise the ES
  accordingly.
• Prepare and manage the bureau’s budget and
  pipeline expenditures. Estimate upcoming cash needs and accrue
  expenditures as appropriate.
• Prepare a monthly request for funds, based
  on cash flow projections, to ensure the bureau has all necessary funds for
  operations.
• Work in close consultation with the ES,
  approve all purchases as per established authorization levels, and
  maintain tracking and documentation systems that will facilitate future
  processing, payment and audit requirements.
• Develop and implement regulations and
  procedures for local purchase, procurement and logistics management.
• Provide financial oversight for financial
  and contractual mechanisms related to technical assistance activities to
  meet UOMB’s management reporting requirements and facilitate the
  successful implementation of the bureau.
• Provide an audit interface between UOMB
  Corporate Accounting, external audit firms and donor auditors.
• Maintain current standing with all
  mandated tax and registrations, including submission of payments and
  reports required.
• Take overall responsibility for advance
  monitoring, control and retirement. Manage reconciliation of all
  activities in the bureau. Track aging advances, and summarizes them for
  inclusion in the Field Accounts.
• Process local payroll and benefits,
  including transferring of staff salary into individual bank accounts.
• The jobholder will also prepare payroll
  and track staff benefits and allowances (accrual of leave, pension plan,
  medical benefits, housing, transportation, meals allowances and
  miscellaneous allowance) etc.
• Manage pension plan by liaising with UOMB
  insurance company on staff benefits issues, including group life
  assurance, group personal accident insurance, implementing a pension
  scheme for regular payment of employee/employer pension contributions, and
  maintaining a filing system for all matters relating to pensions and other
  insurance benefits.
• Obtain proper and prior authorization and
  approval for all local costs.

• The ideal applicant must hold a Masters/Postgraduate
  in accounting and Finance /or business management, or equivalent
  certification from an accredited higher educational institution
• Professional qualifications i.e. ACCA or
  CPA will be an added advantage.
• A minimum of three to five years’
  experience
• Demonstrated accounting, budgeting,
  reporting, and financial analysis experience.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of key
  aspects of accounting, including the creation and interpretation of
  standard financial reports (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow),
  and creation of journal entries.
• Significant financial management
  experience of large international organisations.
• Full understanding of the basic tenets of
  cash control, asset management and bank reconciliation.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of audit
  principles, and of the performance necessary to ensure audit compliance.
• Unimpeachable integrity and mature
  judgment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; demonstrated
  ability to interact professionally with a culturally diverse staff,
  clients, and consultants.
• Demonstrated computer skills in
  spreadsheet, database, word processing, and web-based applications;
  Microsoft Office preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to develop
  strategies, policy standards, protocols and guidelines.
• Recognition as a leader in the field of
  health systems strengthening, and health finance/health economics.
• Deep understanding of costing in health
  programs/facilities, value for money, and results-based financing.
• Knowledge and experience working on both
  demand and supply side health financing initiatives, ranging from private
  sector contracting, performance incentives and cost effectiveness, to
  community based health insurance, and demand side voucher schemes;
• Familiarity with global health financing
  mechanisms and universal health coverage;
• Ability to develop working relationships
  with counterparts in other agencies / organizations.
• Experience working in a multi-stakeholder
  consortium.
• Strong analytical skills and technical
  proficiency with MS Excel and Power point, and statistical software
  (including SPSS, SAS, Stata or R).
• Strong English language skills, especially
  good oral and written communication skills.

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