Zimbabwe Red Cross Society
DUE: 05 MAY 2025
To manage and monitor program funds as per the donor requirement and ZRCS policies.
DUTIES
1. Planning and budgeting
- Participate in project planning, partnership development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
- Develops activity-based budgets for programmes by costing planned activities.
- Manage quarterly and monthly financial planning and budget advance cycles.
- Conduct continuous, quarterly, and mandatory reviews in accordance with the program rules, policies, and regulations.
- Validate project report balances monthly.
2. Project implementation
- Monitors and process with calling of funds for the project
- Managing and tracking of budgets to ensure there is no overspend low burn rate, verifies budget availability for any commitment.
- Carries out budget variance analysis for the program, this entails checking and analysing expenditure related documents and final acquittal of programme funds.
- Reviews fund request and programme work advances to ensure they are within the required timelines.
- Monitor payments and financial reports and cash flow projections with supporting working papers and schedules.
- Review vouchers and invoices and monitor payment requests and disbursements on project activities assigned.
3. Reporting
- Coordinates account coding with project coordinators to ensure financial information allow proper internal monitoring and be linked to project work plan as well as financial reporting as per donor requirements.
- Serve as the main point of contact for project financial related maters that include reviewing and uploading reports, conducting budget reviews, reviewing program invoices for accuracy before submitting for payment.
- Coordinates with programme staff as appropriate to ensure that financial information are complete and accurate, provide regular financial analyses to project coordinators.
- Prepares and submits financial reports to the donor and to the project coordinator in a timely manner.
- Monitors individual project cost recovery, provides monthly reports on cost recovery, and advises on areas that need addressing.
- Responsible for establishing and maintaining a project specific Fixed Assets register.
- Maintains accounts payables and receivables to ensure complete and accurate records of funds.
4. Auditing
- Works with project coordinator to ensure proper closure of projects, final reports submitted, and donor requirements are followed.
- Participates to field visits to review the financial management of the project and train field staff as required.
- Responds to issues raised by both the internal and external auditors in relation to the program
REQUIREMENTS
- A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent ;
- At least 3 years of experience working in the NGO sector.
- Knowledge of Navision Accounting and ERP systems will be an added advantage.
TO APPLY
Email your application and detailed CV to:
The Secretary General
[email protected] .