Finance And Compliance Officer - Beirut

ROLE PURPOSE: To assist and ensure that monthly financial reporting is being done in a timely and accurate manner, and where all expenses are in compliance with both donor and SCI policies.  Assists program staff to better understand the contents of the financial reports to help them in decision-making and strategic planning purposes.    SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to:  Finance Manager   Staff reporting to this post: N/A  KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY  Assists in meeting the financial reporting requirements of in-country management and Member.  This function includes ensuring that all financial reports are submitted on or before the deadlines set and contain relevant information for all the users of the financial reports. Suggests formats for financial reporting to financial statement users to better understand the contents of the reports for decision-making and strategic planning purposes. Ensures the maintenance of accurate records of financial transactions of the country office (main and field offices) in order to monitor financial status of all project activities. Assists in the preparation of all financial reports for external purposes in respect to accounting, compliance and contractual requirements. Assists in ensuring that allocation of management support costs is done using proper method of allocation. Ensures all financial disbursements at each project site remain within budget allotments and pertain only to allowable costs. Provides assistance to program staff and senior management team in the preparation and revision of grant proposals and budgets. This includes ensuring that all budget proposals are thoroughly reviewed and approved by before submission to the members and donors. Ensures that all charges to donor grants are in compliance with donor requirements and SCI policy.  This responsibility extends to thorough understanding and application of specific donor rules and regulations and compliance to donors grant administrative requirements. Provides country office management and program staff with monthly program expenditure reports or “BVA” of all active donor grants.  This function includes coordinating with country office senior management team and program staff as regards to future projections, including discussion of issues, which might have negative impact on the program’s completion; This also includes attending monthly Award Review meetings on field and County office level, assisting the program staff with these discussions. Facilitating the audit process by preparing the PR and assisting the auditors during any internal or external audits Working offline on the budget uploading and DEA creation templates Working on phasing donor budgets as per the forecasts; this also includes uploading all budgets into Agresso on a quarterly basis. Assisting in mapping of budget in both SCI format and donor format Assisting on preparing re-classes sheet and posting them into the system Assisting the Financial Reporting and Compliance Manager and Finance and Compliance Coordinator when needed    QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE University degree in Accounting, Business, finance Fluency in written and spoken English Good computer skills (Word, Excel) 2 to 3 years of work experience