Plan International (Grant Accountant)

Company Description

Plan International is an independent child-centred international development organisation committed to advancing the rights of children and fight against poverty. Plan has no religious, political and government affiliation.

Job Title: Grant Accountant

Job Description

• Ensure financial accountability for grants according to Plan and donor requirements.
• Provide timely and accurate financial information on grants.
• Act as finance focal person for finance-related grants issues (budgeting, cash flow management, reporting, auditing etc).
• Participate in the preparation of grants-related Country Budget and its subsequent modification.
• Maintain a budgetary control system to monitor grant budgets vrs expenditures and advice management on variances and corrective actions required.
• Review and make recommendations to Grants Manager on grants related POs.
• Prepare regular cash flow forecasts/funding requirements for donor-specific bank accounts.
• Monitor funding requirements for donor-specific hank accounts and liaise with the Finance Manager and Grants Manager to ensure availability of adequate funds to meet forecast expenditure requirements.
• Regularly reconcile funds receipts and expenditures on donor-specific hank accounts to ensure that they match.
• Ensure timely preparation and review of donor-specific bank reconciliation statements and receipts/deposits reconciliations,
• Prepare and update financial reporting maths for grants.
• Ensure that grant transactions reports as per GL Smartlist match expenditures reported on the SAP and discrepancies corrected on a timely basis.
• Monitor and advice the status of grants on the SAP.
• Ensure that grant financial reports are timely and accurately prepared in the required formats as per donor contracts and grant agreements.

Job Qualification
HND, BSc, BA

Job Experience
3 years

Job Location
Bauchi

Job Category
Finance, Accounting, Audit

Method of Application
Qualified Candidates should forward CV and Application to plannigeriajobs@gmail.com specify position applying for