Senior Finance Officer – Budget And Financial Analysis

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Maintain very detailed standard monthly commitments both in award currency as well as in USD. As necessary, in local currency as well. Coordinate all the information required on commitments from Program staff, HR unit, Operations team and finance team to input the data in the developed Google sheet. Review and verify the source documents where the commitments are arising from & reference the source document number in the standard excel sheet/Google Sheet designed for this purpose. Be the custodian of all commitments information and as needed share the information with the relevant team members. As and when commitments are cleared and become part of the actual expenditure in the BVA, ensure update is made in the excel sheet/Google Sheet, designed for this purpose Provide a strong support for B&F Analysis Coordinator in compiling and reviewing monthly MCE grant BVAs. Ensure that if there are some delays in getting the MCE BVAs on time, use the transaction listing tool obtained from MCE and produce local (draft/Provisional) BVA for immediate use of the management here. Support the B&F Analysis Coordinator in all of budget development tasks as well making quarterly review of county support cost information (recurring cost information) Support the B&F Analysis Coordinator that prior to any new hires are made, review the availability of budget so the Personnel Requisition Form is authorized/reviewed by the Finance Director or his delegate. Provide similar reviews for all capital asset procurements, service contracts or hiring of consultants. Document and file any exception approvals and remarks on all unbudgeted new hires/contracts/procurements. Provide strong support to program team members and B&F Analysis Coordinator in performing phased budgets systems and quarterly reviews of those phased budget information in the Google Sheet. In connection to Item#7 above, ensure the phased budget system is aligned to our monthly cash flow forecast system. Providing overall support to the program technical team and operations team in submitting realistic cash flow request. Perform any other similar duties that may be reasonably assigned by the supervisor