Grants Finance Officer
Ensure timely partner assessments and manage fund disbursements.
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Overview
Ensure timely partner assessments and manage fund disbursements.
You have:
- Ensure timely partner assessments and due diligence exercises are conducted.
- Disbursement of funds to partners and liquidation processes.
- Capacity strengthening for partners and on-boarding processes.
- Experience with financial management and reconciliation of partner payments.
- Filing of partner documents both in soft and hard copy.
- Ability to post partners' transactions into the SAP4HANNA system weekly.
The Organisation
Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.
Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge. For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries. We won’t stop until we are all equal.
Purpose:
In coordination with the Regional Grants Finance Accountants, ensure timely partner assessments and due diligence exercises are conducted, disbursement of Funds to Partners, Partner Liquidations, Partner Capacity Strengthening, Partner On-boarding and off Boarding, Close out of partnerships, Reconciliation of Partners payments, filing of partner Documents both in soft and hard copy, partner budget monitoring and carry out weekly posting of partners transactions into the SAP4HANNA system among others.
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Location: Kikuube
Type of Role: 4 months contract (contingent upon receiving funding)
Reports to: Regional Grants Finance Accountant
Grade: Level 13
Closing Date: 19 July 2026
Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for. We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas. We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.
Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe your experience with partner assessments and the due diligence process? | This question assesses your familiarity with evaluating and managing partnerships. | Detail your previous experiences with specific examples and outcomes. |
| How do you monitor and manage partner budgets effectively? | The interviewer wants to understand your budgeting strategies with partners. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What experience do you have with financial management systems like SAP? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Explain a situation where you strengthened a partner's financial capacity. What was your approach? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you ensure documents are properly managed and filed? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What challenges have you faced during fund disbursements, and how did you resolve them? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe your approach to monitoring partner transactions. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you uphold safeguarding policies in financial practices? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
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