Senior Finance and Administration Officer: Local Media NGO

Deadline: 18 December 2018

A local media NGO seeks the services of a Senior Finance and Administration Officer based in Harare.

Department: Finance and Administration Department

Position: Full timeReports to: Director

Job Purpose

Overall supervision of organisation’s finance functions
Senior Grants Management and Finance OfficerAppraise existing financial systems and policies; Develop and oversee financial systems and policies, verify that financial systems/policies are in compliance with widely accepted accounting norms;
Facilitate roll out of relevant organisational policies and systems such as management information systems;
Ensure that the Director and programme staff systematically receive financial reports to assist programme/management planning and decision making;
Oversee scheduling for external audits, review and act on findings of the audit reports;
Lead, from a finance perspective, the annual development of administration and programme budgets, project budgets and manage the process of interim budget reviews;
Analyse, prepare and submit cash flow projections in line with the organisation’s annual budget;
Scrutinise and collate monthly administration budget financial reports and programme tracking reports;

Ensure organisation meets all its statutory obligations;
To prepare monthly reports detailing, income and expenditure, intercompany account schedules, donation schedules and variance analysis;
To ensure the financial integrity of the operation with regards to controls, systems, financial reporting;
To ensure timely and accurate submission of financial reports;
To manage the financial and compliance aspects of government and donors and ensure that expenses are incurred consistent with grant agreements;
To prepare monthly/weekly internal financial management reports for the Director and variance analysis, where necessary;
To undertake any other activity that is assigned by the Director

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