USAID Not-for-profit Careers – Africa Support Accountant at Malaria Consortium

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Organization: Malaria
Consortium
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Africa
Finance Manager
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:
Technically support the AFo
finance and management accountant to:
  • Prepare and maintain the regional accounts in
    accordance with Malaria Consortium’s
    Financial Policies and procedures.
  • Intuitively
    prepare regional budgets and forecasts, including the mapping of
    phasing of the multi-country
    programmes
  • Compile and send a monthly checklist in line
    with the monthly reporting timetable.
Support the Country Offices
to:
  • Prepare financial donor reports in the region
    and in ensuring submissions to donors are completed on a timely and accurately basis.
  • Prepare the annual budget and revised forecasts
    on an accurate and timely basis,
 2.
Financial Monitoring – Country Programmes:
  • Conduct Country visits to help ensure quality
    is maintained in all aspects of financial management.
  • Review the monthly checklists, with
    reconciliations prepared by each country office and provide summary feedback to the AFM
    and then CFMs.
  • Assist in coordination on the internal audit of
    local offices.
  • Offer
    a gap fill service for the financial management in country
    programmes as required due
    to staff absence from leave or resignation.
  • Provide financial accounting support to County Finance Managers and Financial Accountants
    in the region.
3. Financial Monitoring –
Regional Budgets and Multi Country Programmes (MCP)
Assist with the:
  • Timely and accurate financial monitoring
    reports for the regional and MCP budgets
  • Monthly variance and burn rate analysis on a monthly for Regional and
    MCP budget holders
  • Timely and accurate preparation of MCP external
    donor financial reporting as required
4. Financial Systems
Development:
  • Work closely with the Africa Finance Manager to
    improve financial systems
    in the region and assist in introducing change where requested as part of
    the global improvement to provide timely and appropriate financial
    information to MC’s senior management team, project managers and budget
    holders
5. Strategic Input: Provide input into the strategic objectives
of the finance team and how it can achieve its plans.
 6. Legal, Security and Risk Management:
  • Carry
    out spot checks, regular and ad-hoc, in the local country offices to
    test the financial
    controls.
  • Review regional fixed asset registers
  • Monitor maintenance or regional assets in
    accordance with MC asset management policy.  
7. Human Resources: Cover for the existing AFo FMA position as
well as some AFM duties as needed.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:  
  • The applicant should be a fully qualified
    accountant in recognised professional global body e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA
  • The ideal candidate must hold a good bachelor’s
    degree from a recognised university
  • Extensive knowledge and understanding of NGO
    donors and their financial reporting requirements
  • At least three years’ accountancy experience,
    with at least a year in a managerial position
  • Prior
    experience of USAID compliance
  • Good
    working knowledge of accounting software
  • Excellent computer literacy skills with high
    proficiency in Microsoft excel
  • Excellent analytical and reporting skills
  • High level of English, both written and spoken
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication
    skills
  • Willingness to travel to countries within the region
  • Strong ability to be able to manage and
    prioritise multiple tasks
  • Prior experience in training and developing
    capacity of Finance staff will be an added advantage
  • Keen eye for detail
How to Apply:  
If you desire to join one of
the world’s leading not-for-profit organizations, please send a covering letter
outlining how you meet the person specification along with your updated CV/
resume to afro.ops@malariaconsortium.org. Please quote the position and country
in the subject line of your application.
NB:
Only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks after the
closing date.
Deadline: Monday, 28th April, 2014

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