Grants/Financial Analyst at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a nonprofit international health organization with nearly 2,500 people from over 74 nationalities working in over 40 countries. Our mission: Saving lives and improving the health of the world's poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Together with our partners, we are helping managers and leaders in developing countries to create stronger management systems that improve health services for the greatest health impact.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Grants/Financial Analyst

Job ID: 13-8406
Location: Abuja
Grade: G
Dept/Unit: GEN (General)
Project/Program: PRO-ACT
Reports to: Project Director

Overall Responsibilities

Financial Reporting:

• The core job of the financial analyst is to conduct a general financial analysis of the reports obtained from accounting and various departments such as operations, transport, human resources, field offices, or other sources and present and communicate findings.
• The financial analyst will be responsible for monitoring the monthly spending of the projects against the budgets, and the obligations and preparing all financial reports as required by USAID. Additionally, the financial analyst will prepare ad hoc reports as necessary.
• S/he will also collaborate with Data Systems Specialist to assist program teams to prepare annual work plans and budgets using work plan database budgeting tools and help teams to monitor their plans and will also develop annual project budgets.

Grants Management:

• The core job of the Grants Analyst is to collaborate with the Finance Manager/COMU Director in order to manage and coordinate MSH Nigeria’s complex grants portfolio lending to a variety of Non-governmental organizations, faith based organizations, and community based organizations in order to strengthen health systems and improve health service delivery throughout Nigeria.
• Work closely with the supervisor to establish and follow a transparent grant process, and develop tools to implement the process, assuring that sound practices are applied at every stage of the grant process from guidelines to closeout.
• He/she must be available to travel up to 50% of the time.

Specific Responsibilities

Financial Reporting:

• Compile and analyze monthly management reports. Some reports will be generated from various units, while you will be expected to prepare financial reports such as accruals reports, expenditure reports or quarterly finance page for project quarterly reports, for example.
• Monitor monthly expenditures against work plan, budget and obligation for all projects.
• Analyze reports: vehicle fuel reports, field office reports, phone bills, generator fuel reports, advance reports, ad hoc HR reports, making use of spreadsheets and different statistical software in order to analyze the facts of the reports. Most information is tracked in Access Database.
• Develop new and effective techniques and templates for financial monitoring.
• Keep up with the latest trends and techniques in the field of financial and management analysis.
• Coordinating with the management to help them understand the reports, interpretations and to use data in decision-making.

Grants Management:

• Assist Finance Manager in setting up and administering a grants management system for MSH Nigeria.
• Help to issue grants to NGOs, FBOs, and CBOs ensuring that all necessary guidelines and regulations are followed.
• Help Finance Manager establish a grants application and evaluation tools of grants recipients to guarantee best use of project funds.
• As directed by the Finance Manager, manage grants at all phases and ensure compliance with donor and MSH regulations.
• With the Finance Manager, monitor and support grant recipients’ financial and operations systems ensuring best practices are being implemented.
• Provide accounting support to the Country Operations Management Unit as directed by the Finance Manager.
• Other tasks as requested by supervisor

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Finance and Accounting, or Statistics required.
• At least 3 years experience working on a USAID funded project in finance office.
• Superior analytical abilities, result oriented nature and team working capabilities
• Demonstrated high level of proficiency in Access, Excel and QuickBooks.
• Demonstrate good judgment and sound financial practices.
• Ability to create and monitor budgets. Understanding of the basic tenets of Cash Control, Asset Management and Bank Reconciliation.
• Understands the principals of adequate documentation and of audit, and performance necessary to ensure audit compliance.
• Advanced written and verbal proficiency in English including business terminology.
• Attention to detail and ability to finish projects on time required.
• Self motivation, passion, desire to learn and contribute required.

Application Closing Date
19th July, 2015.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should
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