Senior Finance Manager (Budgeting & Financial Planning) Afghan Nationals Only

Job Description

1. Budgeting and Financial Planning:

1. Assist Finance Coordinator in Preparing, revising, and maintaining both existing grants and grant budget proposals. 2. Work with program and supply chain staff in preparing and/or revising grant budgets to support new proposals or realignments to ensure adequate grant coverage of country operating costs and headquarters costs. 1. Consolidate and update all grant pipeline information from Supply Chain, Program, Grants, and Finance departments on a monthly basis and propose and prepare budget revisions as necessary. 2. Assists in the preparation, revision, and maintenance of the IRC country office Operating Budget. 3. Assisted in Preparation of 1st and 2nd country program financial forecasts. 4. Maintain, update the HR funding matrix, and recommend realignments where necessary.

2. Budget Vs Actual 3. 1. To prepare and review with the FC the monthly analysis of TR funds against budget/spending projection. 2. Review and monitor all Budget versus Actual (BvA) reports in coordination with program and Operations on a monthly basis to ensure maximum utilization of budgeted amounts and to provide recommendations for realignments as required. This will also entail monitoring the project burn rates, consolidation of spending plan information from programs, finance, operations and making summary presentations in a monthly BVA meeting. 3. Review monthly field expense reports Vs budgets and analyzing shared costs versus approved allocations and organize BVA meetings with field coordinators and field finance managers for the different field sites. 4. Review and provide analysis between spending plan projections, actual spending, and procurement plans. 5. Coordinate and ensure implementation of finance action points from the BVA meetings. 4. Grants Management 5. Provide technical support when needed in grant opening, interim, closing, and review meetings. 6. Prepare grants budget and upload the budgets to the BVA system. 7. Analysis of actual vs budget results to identify problems in accounting or compliance 8. Training and Staff Management: 1. Assist in providing training and support for the country office program and operational staff on budget proposals, revisions, pipeline, and spending plan report. 2. Prepare written field trip reports for review by the FC and DDF which identifies key issues during the field trip visits and provide follow-up recommendations for improving control processes or procedures. 3. To accomplish any other duty assigned by the supervisor

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