Overall purpose of the role:
Under the direct supervision of CCU Finance Manager; the Regional Finance Officer is responsible for the day-to-day management of the consortium financial operations and other regional financial tasks, This includes financial capacity building of consortium members staff; internal program audit and ensuring overall financial compliance; monthly financial analysis; and production of consolidated financial reports. The role holder is responsible specifically for preparing consortium monthly expenditure reports, donor financial reports, and checking all accounting reports before those are uploaded/in-put in DRC financial software.
Responsibilities:
- Request for bank transfer from HQ twice a month or on a monthly basis which includes collecting the needed information from other departments, filling in the needed documents and uploading them on the accounting software.
- Bank account reconciliation on a monthly basis and sharing them within the given time frame with HQ.
- Spot check on the consortium members financial reports.
- Fill in the needed financial documents for the partners financial transaction and uploading them to DRC software.
- Assets follow up and assets register for the consortium project.
- Ad-hoc Rebooking for the accounts as needed.
- Monthly checking of the expenses on the DRC software.
- Responsible for the preparation and submission of complete, accurate, reliable and timely financial reports that will feed into donor reporting.
- Prepare accurate monthly expenditure reports for management including analysis of burn rates, and explanations for significant under and over-spends.
- Prepare accurate periodic financial reports for submission to donors.
- Prepare quarterly reconciliation reports between grant and contract reports and actual expenses by the end of the month following quarter.
- Prepare the Payment Request for the donor with appropriate supporting reports.
- Prepare and follow up on the Payment Request for / to the consortium members.
- Maintain project and donor contacts, reports and correspondence and files in both hard and soft copies.
- Review grant agreements and map donor budget lines for appropriate management decisions and reporting.
- Provide technical support and guidance to consortium finance staff in developing and establishing consortium administrative systems, policies and procedures, based on DRC Operations Handbook and donor guidelines
- Apply for and utilize VAT exemptions.
- Collaborate with external and internal auditors related to consortium as required.
DRC as an employer
By working in DRC, you will be joining a global workforce of around 8000 employees in 40 countries. We pride ourselves on our:
- Professionalism, impact & expertise
- Humanitarian approach & the work we do
- Purpose, meaningfulness & own contribution
- Culture, values & strong leadership
- Fair compensation & continuous development