Finance Manager - Budgeting & Reporting

Requisition ID: req23891

Job Title: Finance Manager - Budgeting & Reporting

Sector: Finance

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: No

Location: Kampala, Uganda

Job Description

Under the direction of the Deputy Director Finance, the Finance Manager is responsible for ensuring that the day-to-day accounting operations and financial management functions are performed in accordance with IRC's policies and procedures, and in accordance with the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).

Duties and Responsibilities

• Managing all aspects of day-to-day budgeting and donor within the accounting department
• Assist in the implementation of finance policies, procedures related to donor budgets and donor reporting.
• Ensure compliance with IRC procedures and guidelines.
• Support the Deputy Director Finance to prepare management accounts for decision making.
• Work with Field finance leads to complete various donor budgets.
• Work with field finance leads to generate spending plans as well as working with programs to populate spending plan templates and ensure the plans are uploaded in the system
• Work with Grants team to schedule spend plan meetings and provide feedback for corrective action
• Offer training to finance and program on budgeting and spend plan preparation

Sub-award Management

• Support to review partner financial reports for accuracy and completeness
• Support to timely recorded partner expenses in Integra
• Provide support to do spot reviews for all partner expenses that have been cleared for Integra posting
• Support the process of ensuring that new sub-Grantee Partner Integra IDs are followed up and completed and related CTRs are dully affected.

Budgeting and Budget Management

• Prepare budget revisions as they fall due
• Work with Grants team to monitor performance in form of BVA and report required actions to bigger finance group for correction
• Assign financial dimensions to the completed and approved budgets
• Crate upload templates of new or revised budgets and upload them in Integra for program accessibility
• Review budgets from programs for accuracy and completeness
• Review all budget upload templates, category templates, and funding limit templates before they are fully uploaded in INTEGRA.
• Provide critical support to the field offices, through efficient and complete response to their needs.
• Review financial data submitted by the field to identify weaknesses or problems being encountered by field finance staff and recommend corrective action.
• Ensure there is good working relationship between Finance and other departments.
• Work hand in hand with the Deputy Finance Controller and Grants on all new budget proposals and budget revisions.

Personnel Management

• Serve as a technical resource person for the accounting department and program team on matters related to budgeting and donor reporting.

Finance/Budgeting

• Review funding allocations to enable proper guidance to programs and proper coding.
• Be receptive to training provided and to develop his or her technical and professional competence.
• Follow any new procedures and guidelines designated in circulars from the Country Director and Deputy Director Finance

Donor Reporting

• Assist the Deputy Finance Controller in the preparation of donor financial reports for review by the Deputy Director Finance.
• Carry out data query in INTEGRA to provide information as may be required.
• Prepare various reports in INTEGRA for management decision making purpose.

Any other duties assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, or Finance or CPA, ACCA equivalent with at least 4 years of middle management experience in similar role.
• Accounting package knowledge is an added advantage.
• Mature, with stable personality and ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as, an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications
• Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to prioritize and deliver on time
• Strong analytic problem solving skills
• Ability to work both independently and in a dynamic, cross-functional global team structure
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to manage and work through change in a proactive and positive manner.

Please note: Deadline for receiving applications is February 4th 2022.

The IRC and IRC staff must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

We are committed to narrowing the gender gap in leadership positions. We offer generous benefits that provide an enabling environment for women to participate in our workforce including parental leave, gender-sensitive security protocols and other supportive benefits and allowances. We welcome and strongly encourage qualified professionals to apply.

All staff, regardless of role, are required to create a culture of client responsiveness by requesting and using client feedback data to make decisions. In addition, all staff are expected to demonstrate inclusiveness when making programmatic decisions and working with clients, partners and colleagues from diverse backgrounds. You can read more about the IRC's commitment to client responsiveness here: https://www.rescue.org/resource/client-responsiveness-introduction-and-faq

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.