Partnership Finance Officer

Key Responsibilities: Assist Finance Officer on the development and maintaining of partner financial requirement and management. Assess partner's financial capability, and assist Programme on capacity building plan and implementation. Check grant payment request ensuring compliance to agreed condition of payment. Provide Capacity building support to the partner regarding partner financial management. Assist programme on capacity building to partners on financial system and control in compliance to OGB and donor requirements. Ensure financial compliance through audit check of finance reports from partner NGO's and provide written feedback to finance officer and relevant Programme Coordinator/Officer Ensure Compliance of programme staff on grant monitoring, balances and closure of grants. To make regular field visits and liaise with OGB's partners/beneficiaries. Conduct regularaudits of Projects and Partners. Check Details of partner reports, chase reports, prepare reports ad to be ensure that report from partner can be presented to the donor within Oxfam's report to donor. Perform audit of partner financial to ensure financial management systems and reports of partners are of the required standard. To be link and coordinate financial issures between Programme, Partners and Oxfam finance. Communicates frequently with Programme and Line Manager to ensure that all those who need to share information are well Informed. Additional Responsibilities: Check Peoplesoft reports and submit to Finance Officer : Print enquiry reports from PeopleSoft. Check project budgets and submit to Finance Officer Prepare Information Required by auditors. Prepare monthly accounts from Peoplesoft; print PeopleSoft reports. Revise and Audit all the payments up to GBP 1,000 assuring it includes all the supporting doc's: invoices, receipts, proof of payment, procurment doc's and or contracts, etc. This will require seeking appropriate authorisation and insuring that all supporting documents are appropriately field. Ensure that fixed assets registers are regulary up to date. Any other responsibiltiy or task that may be assigned by your line manager. Skills and Competence: Good team player and builder. Excellent knowledge of accounting. Strong organisational skills, detail oriented with ability, to produce accurate work under tight deadlines. Ability to work and communicate effectively with partners/beneficiaries to insure compliance with Oxfam GB policies and Procedures. Ability to adapt to a fast Changing enviornment and numerous, conflicting job requirements. Be computer Literate. Ability to speak, read, write and work in English, Arabic. Proven experience working in a similar role in a small finance team.