Grants And Assistance Compliance Manager

Main Responsibilities: - Effectively communicates with senior management, local development staff and major donors - Manages the grants process from development of budget proposal, review of key grant terms, and coding compliance and reporting - Coordinates financial reporting on grants and awards - Establishes and manages record keeping systems and procedures for tracking and reporting; streamline processes where applicable - Monitors spending against key grants and awards on a monthly basis and provide inofrmation to the program director to adjust spending accordignly - Ensures overall compliance with terms and conditions of key grants and awards - Maintains a public grant reporting calendar - Assists Financial manager in managing the annual budget and review processes Qualifications: - knowledge of the principles and practices of not-for-profit accounting, including direct responsibility managing large restricted grants - Ability to perform sophisticated financial analysis - Familiarity with government reporting - Proficiency in MS Office products (Excel, Word, Power Point) and ability to work with standards accounting packages; advanced MS Excel user preferred - Outstanding communication skills (written and oral); ability to communicate in a diplomatic, friendly, yet effective manner with senior management, staff and donors - Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects concurrently undear deadline pressure and changing priorities - Ability to solve problems creatively in order to meet organisational goals and objectives - 12 years experience in financial analysis, financial management and not-for-profit accounting - Experience in developimng and monitoring complex budgets, grant reporting and applying accounting principles - High standard of professional ethics and confidentiality - Prior similar responsibility under USAID programs is essential