Report to:Finance and Administration Manager
Duty station:ZACH Head Office, Harare
Closing Date:24 September 2024
Job Summary
The Financial Analyst is responsible for reviewing and monitoring multiple component activity budgets and expenditures in a professional manner. This position requires excellent knowledge of U.S. Government grants, contracting and auditing standards as they apply to effective management of multi-year funds and someone with prior experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis and management reporting.
• Creates, reviews, and monitors multiple component activity budgets and expenditures.
• Collaborates with programme staff & other offices to update cost-to-complete analyses periodically.
• Using appropriate financial tools, track all unit costs for all the projects supported.
• Continuously extract and analyze expense report to review with workplan implementation.
• Maintain an online cost tracking system and ensure compliant monitoring and reporting on cost centre/budget expenses.
• Uses financial systems to produce reports, analysis, financial models and databases.
• Interprets and provides explanation for discrepancies and variations in financial data and ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures (GAAP).
• Assist in maintaining financial, grants, and/or administrative reporting and tracking systems and provide related performance updates on activities.
• Compiles data and information to enable capacity building through training and mentoring relevant project staff and implementing partners on managing and monitoring activity costs.
• Responsible for ensuring the timely and quality completion of all reporting requirements.
• Perform fund reconciliation reports and process appropriate corrections
• Assure completeness of supporting documentation and accuracy of entries for financial reporting on standardized forms and document filing.
• Ensure comprehensive analysis of actuals vs budget, forecasts, trends (in year and year on year), KPIs and benchmarks to identify risks and opportunities and advice on response – for both in year and future years in budgeting.
• Ensure sound funding models are developed and implemented as appropriate
• Maximise the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and M&E Systems and related Business Intelligence tools to ensure simpler, speedier and more insightful analysis (for both actual versus plans) is provided in a more engaging way, thereby reducing shortcomings in systems, skills and capability.
• Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, trends, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Excellent with reconciliations, integrated forecasting, reporting, and tracking of operational metrics.
• Provide insights and analysis to ensure financial resources are allocated or reprioritised for maximum impact while ensuring non-overspending to support the successful delivery and implementation of interventions.
• Assist in business development through supporting proposal preparation (new and continuous applications) and assisting in the preparation of new budgets and operating plans.
-Excellent knowledge of U.S. Government grants, contracting and auditing standards as they apply to effective management of multi-year funds.
-Prior experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and management reporting.
-First degree, articles and complete professional qualification
-Familiarity with data query/data management tools is extremely helpful (Access, SQL, Business Objects). -Strong quantitative and analytical competency
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Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences (MSUAS)
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Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences (MSUAS)
Mutare
Expires
Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences (MSUAS)
Mutare
Expires
Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences (MSUAS)
Mutare
Expires
Manicaland State University of Applied Sciences (MSUAS)
Harare
Full Time
24 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024