{"id":17493,"date":"2025-03-03T22:54:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secardo.org\/finance-officer-5\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T22:54:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:54:40","slug":"finance-officer-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secardo.org\/?p=17493","title":{"rendered":"Finance Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/>Country: Nigeria<br \/>\n                                      Organization: Young Africa International<br \/>\n                                                                      Closing date: 5 Mar 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:<\/strong> Finance Officer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reporting to:<\/strong> Finance Manager and Grants Coordinator<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Nigeria<\/p>\n<p><strong>Purpose of Job:<\/strong> To implement sound financial and administrative systems, financial management of donor funding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are inviting applications for the position of <strong>Finance Officer<\/strong>to be based in Nigeria. Reporting to the Finance Manager and Grants Coordinator, the Finance Officer will be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Responsibilities include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Projects financial management and budgeting<\/li>\n<li>Responsible for the smooth running of the finance department<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring that the service in the finance department is provided correctly and in accordance with YAINT financial management and accounting procedures<\/li>\n<li>Performing financial planning, monitoring, and accounting duties.<\/li>\n<li>Carrying out internal controls in accordance with the Finance and Administration Manual.<\/li>\n<li>Preparing for internal and external audits.<\/li>\n<li>Focal person for all banking matters<\/li>\n<li>Indemnified for cash withdrawals from the banks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Within these responsibilities, tasks include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Budgeting and Financial Planning<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In liaison with the Programmes team, prepare and monitor project budgets.<\/li>\n<li>Adjust budgets as necessary throughout the project lifecycle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2 Financial Monitoring and Reporting<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Track the project\u2019s financial performance against the budget, providing regular updates and reports to the Finance Manager and the Programmes Team.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure accurate financial data is recorded and reported<\/li>\n<li>Preparing monthly variance reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3 Financial Compliance and Auditing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure compliance with financial regulations, standards and organisational policies<\/li>\n<li>External and Internal audit preparations<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that all financial transactions are properly documented and traceable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4 Reporting on financial performance<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide clear and concise financial performance reports to the Finance Manager.<\/li>\n<li>Financial management of the grant.<\/li>\n<li>Setting up and aligning financial management and administrative systems with existing policies and procedures<\/li>\n<li>Monitor and control expenditure accordingly<\/li>\n<li>Ensure financial and administrative compliance with donor contracts.<\/li>\n<li>Produce periodic donor reports.<\/li>\n<li>Produce monthly and annual Financial Reports.<\/li>\n<li>Track the project\u2019s financial performance against the budget, providing regular updates and reports to the Finance Manager and the Programmes Team.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure accurate financial data is recorded and reported.<\/li>\n<li>Identify discrepancies or deviations from the budget and recommend corrective actions.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure compliance with financial regulations and standards.<\/li>\n<li>External and Internal audit preparations<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that all financial transactions are properly documented, filed and traceable.<\/li>\n<li>All tasks will be carried out in very close collaboration with the Finance Manager and Grants Coordinator.<\/li>\n<li>Any other duties as assigned by Management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Qualifications and Experience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At least a degree in Finance or Administration, at least 10 years of related working experience in the NGO sector.\n<ul>\n<li>Experience working with Mastercard Foundation grants will be a definite advantage.<\/li>\n<li>Solid and proven knowledge of accounting, financial management, donor reporting and compliance.<\/li>\n<li>Experience managing external audits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>APPLICATION DEADLINE: 5 March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TO APPLY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Submit letter of motivation and CV to financeofficer.nigeria@youngafrica.org<\/p>\n<h2 id='how-to-apply'  id=\"boomdevs_1\">How to apply<\/h2>\n<p><strong>TO APPLY:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Submit letter of motivation and CV to financeofficer.nigeria@youngafrica.org<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/job\/4136971\/finance-officer\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Country: Nigeria Organization: Young Africa International Closing date: 5 Mar 2025 Job Title: Finance Officer Reporting to: Finance Manager and Grants Coordinator Location: Nigeria Purpose of Job: To implement sound financial and administrative systems,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[630,620],"course":[],"event":[],"internship":[],"class_list":["post-17493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-jobs-2","tag-finance","tag-officer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Finance Officer - SECARDO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Administration\/Finance Job in Nigeria, requiring 10+ years of experience, from Young Africa International; 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