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Light for the World International Responsible for providing financial oversight by ensuring accurate reporting, budgeting, risk management, compliance, audit support, strategic planning, and grant oversight for organizational success. Key Roles and Responsibilities • Financial Reporting, preparing accurate and timely financial reports and ensuring compliance with accounting principles, regulations, and reporting standards. • Develop and implement budget plans based on the organization’s financial goals. • Formulate detailed project budgets by integrating inputs from various stakeholders and considering potential risks and contingencies. • Prepare Monthly, Quarterly, Semi-Annual, and Annual Financial Reports. • Evaluate financial data to gauge project performance and budget utilization. • Ensure compliance with donor regulations and requirements throughout the project. • Assist in the development and implementation of strategic plans. • Identify and manage potential risks related to financial operations. • Carry out research on the local and global funding markets, identifying leads and potential calls for proposals. • Take lead in the development of proposals and concept notes, ensure their submission and track follow-up with the donor/funding body. • Direct the mobilization, management, and accounting of all resources of various grants. • Developing project milestone agreements and Terms of Reference to guide the sub granting with Enterprise support organizations. • Budgeting and Forecasting, collaborating with program colleagues and other departments to create and manage the annual budget in addition to developing financial forecasts and variance analysis. • Ensure standardization with processes and procedures. • Provide guidance to partnerships on their financial plans and review their financial reports monthly. • Risk Management, identifying financial risks and implementing risk mitigation strategies and ensuring compliance with internal controls and financial policies. • Compliance and Regulation, staying updated on financial regulations and ensuring the organization's compliance with tax laws, financial reporting standards, and other regulatory requirements. • Audit Support, coordinating and participating in internal and external audits as well as addressing audit findings and implementing recommendations for improvement. • Strategic Planning, providing financial insights to support long-term strategic planning and decision-making. • Review reports and monitor progress of projects to verify that grant holders are implementing grants to address agreed objectives in a timely manner and in-keeping with good practice. • Work closely with colleagues to coach and support grant holders in the management of their activities. • Oversee the management and development of the grants and compliance policies. • Cost Control, identifying areas for cost reduction and efficiency improvements.

Agency for Cooperation in Research and Development Responsible for ensuring accurate financial reporting, budget preparation, procurement guidance, compliance monitoring, operational support, supervisory management, and statutory deduction handling with meticulous transaction verification. Key Roles and Responsibilities • Managing and controlling funds from UNHCR, BROT, PRM-USG, DINU, SUPREME-EU, UPR, ECHO donors. • Reviews periodically existing internal finance and accounts control systems. • Controls expenditures at Sub program level in consultation with the Sub Program Managers, Section heads and Project Officers. • Prepares all Sub program transaction summaries and ledger entries for posting to the SAGE accounting system. • Prepares and submits realistic and timely cash flow projections to the Finance Manager in consultation with the Project Managers, Sub Program Manager, Section heads and Project Officers. • Prepares monthly management and financial reports for the Sub program. • Ascertains that vouchers and claims at the Sub Program level are correct, with appropriate supporting documents. • Reviews purchase orders and draft contract agreements initiated by Section heads, Project Officers, Project Managers, Team Leader/Sub Program. • Prepares budgets at Sub Program level and verifies their accuracy and suitability with Section heads, Project Officers, Project Managers. • Prepares regular financial updates to guide sub program • Supervises the Assistant Accountants and Accounts Assistants. • Checks cash and bank books on a daily basis to establish funds position, and carries out spot checks on the Accounts Assistant’s activities. • Ensure all transactions are posted into the organization’s accounting system for purposes of easy and timely reporting and responsible for compiling monthly, quarterly, and annual project financial reports meeting their reporting time schedules.

• Prepare profit and loss statements and monthly closing and cost accounting reports. • Compile and analyze financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, and document business transactions. • Establish, maintain, and coordinate the implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures. • Analyze and review budgets and expenditures for local, state, federal, and private funding, contracts, and grants. • Prepare and review budget, revenue, expense, payroll entries, invoices, and other accounting documents. • Recommend, develop and maintain financial data bases, computer software systems and manual filing systems • Supervise the input and handling of financial data and reports for the company's automated financial systems. • Prepares fiscal year-end closing entries to facilitate a clean audit and function as the primary contact for external fiscal audits

• Provides regular reports to managers on matters related to Admin/finance and Ensure all admin/finance reports are submitted to the relevant bodies in time; • Ensuring at all times that UNHCR’s/donors and AIRD’s rules and regulations regarding financial management are adhered to. • Participate actively in preparing project budgets for the sub offices/ Cost centers and input to entire operations. • Ensuring that office Procedures are maintained in accordance to the project regulations & the staff contracts. • Ensuring that all office equipment & other assets are kept in good working condition. • Being an active participant in Management Team meetings, taking minutes and sharing same with the team. • Carries out accounting procedures using QUICK BOOK accounting software and ensure that all transactions are entered into the appropriate books of accounts. • Monitor Local purchase orders (LPOs) to suppliers and/or contracts in reference to the requested items and ensuring that the procurement procedures are followed and updates on commitment made are reported. • Prepare monthly bank reconciliations. Conducting regular cash count and control. • Manages internal control based on AIRD’s SOPs