Finance, Grants and Compliance Manager - Faith and Community Initiative (FCI)

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Employee Contract Type:Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

Recruitment is Contingent upon Award and Donor Approval

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES

Country Financial Management (20%)

• Lead preparation, management and periodic revision of the FCI Tanzania country budget, ensuring alignment with approved programme strategies, annual work plans, technical priorities, partner implementation plans and donor requirements.
• Prepare and maintain phased budgets, annual spending plans, monthly cash-flow forecasts, pipeline analyses and budget-versus-actual reports in collaboration with the Country Project Director, technical team and Global Finance Team.
• Establish financial mechanisms that enable WVT to monitor the FCI 80/20 efficiency commitment, including tracking the proportion of resources reaching frontline health workers, hubs, spokes, faith-based facilities and community service-delivery platforms against programme-management and administrative expenditure.
• Develop practical cost-efficiency analyses, including where appropriate: cost per hub and spoke; cost per frontline health worker supported; cost per facility/community platform; partner management costs; unit costs for major interventions; management and administrative cost ratios.
• Review expenditures, general-ledger coding, journal entries, reconciliations, advances, partner liquidations and supporting documentation to ensure costs are accurate, properly approved, allowable and charged to the correct budget and activity.
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, annual and donor financial reports, including burn-rate analysis; budget variances; pipeline forecasts; partner expenditure performance; commitments and obligations; and management recommendations.
• Manage country cash flow and funds requests in accordance with approved work plans and implementation requirements while avoiding unnecessary accumulation of cash or interruption of programme implementation.
• Manage financial flows to consortium and local implementing partners, including consortium members, faith-based partners and community implementing organizations, ensuring timely disbursement, utilization, reconciliation and accountability.
• Maintain appropriate financial monitoring of implementation resources distributed across hubs, spokes, community platforms and participating partners, with sufficient visibility of expenditures by geography, partner and major intervention.
• Ensure adequate financial arrangements are established for field implementation, including travel, training, supportive supervision, frontline workforce support and other approved programme activities.
• Lead financial close-out planning from the outset of the programme, including accrual and obligation tracking, partner close-out, advance clearance, asset disposition, final reporting and records retention.

End Results

FCI Tanzania resources are effectively planned, budgeted, monitored and reported, with accurate and timely financial information supporting programme and management decisions. Cash flow, partner disbursements and expenditures are proactively managed; budget variances and financial risks are addressed promptly; and resources are demonstrably directed toward frontline service delivery in accordance with the FCI 80/20 efficiency commitment.

Compliance, Risk, and Audit (15%)