Job Descriptions
Key Responsibilities
Grant Management
- Reviewing grant applications for quality and risks, making recommendations for funding based on grantee financial submissions.
- Monitoring and reviewing grantee financial reports and reconciliations of grantee expenditure to substantiate appropriate costs are being claimed in line with grants, including regular travel to carry out spot checks of hard copy receipts and grantee financial reports.
- Assisting the WA Regional Coordinator to monitor and review grant payments to ensure claims are valid and ready for approval.
- Assisting the UK Finance Manager to prepare reconciliations between the grant management software (MatsSoft) and the grant disbursements recorded in the Project and Group financial systems.
- Preparing regional grant forecasting figures, as required by the UK Finance Manager.
Programme Accounting
- Responding to financial audits of the programme (internal and external).
- Ensuring that timely, accurate, and appropriate information is available to the programme management team and local financial returns are prepared in a timely fashion and with integrity.
- Supporting the Regional Project Manager and the local Mott MacDonald Limited Ghana finance team as required.
Financial Management
- Working closely with the Regional Coordinator and UK Finance Manager to enforce appropriate and sound internal controls to protect programme and company assets, and maintain sound financial systems and policies in line with GAAP, MML policies (including fraud), local policies, client requirements, and local laws.
- Providing oversight of timely completion of invoice and expense tracker for the Regional Hub.
- If required, provide support to EY for grantee audits.
- Staying informed of the “best practices” around funds management and recommend improvements to programme systems and procedures in relation to applications and appraisals and fund management processes.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Higher education; Accounting qualification
- Applicants should highlight any relevant training or professional development
- Experience in implementing grant/ fund management programmes in low and middle-income countries
- Experience in managing the finances of complex programmes
- Experience of financial monitoring and reporting of grant expenditure, including sampling, validation, and compliance checking
- Experience in implementing finance processes and policies and templates for internal controls and counter fraud measures
- Understanding of value for money, ethics, and transparency
Salary
Competitive
Monthly based
Location
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Job Overview
Location
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
