Finance Officer

About The Job We are hiring to fill a vacancy for the position of Finance Officer. To fill this position, we are looking for a highly motivated Finance Officer who is passionate about women’s rights in Africa, excited about African feminisms, embraces African women’s diversity and is innovative to join the team. Finance Officer: Do you have experience in financial management and are you ready to develop your competencies and contribute to strengthening the financial health of AWDF? Do you have strong analytical and accounting skills? Are you ready to provide timely and accurate financial reports and procedures including cash management, payroll, budgeting and financial disbursement? Do you have experience in carrying out effective due diligence for grantee partners? Job Summary Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Finance Officer is required to support the achievement of the financial management objectives of the organisation in line with the organisational strategy. The Finance Officer will be responsible for the financial operations of the organisation and ensure timely and accurate financial report and practises including cash management, payroll, participating in audits, budgeting, transaction monitoring and financial disbursement. As part of the specific duties described below, the Finance Officer will have additional responsibility for due diligence work related to programmes and operational portfolios. Specific Duties: Grantee due diligence and Financial processes Assist the Finance Manager to develop and conduct due diligence processes aimed at assessing, mitigating and managing the risk of financial fraud and mismanagement of selected grantee organisations In collaboration with the Finance Officer- Due diligence, support all AWDF finance department initiated due diligence related activities Conduct field visits of selected grant recipients. Follow up with grant applicants to submit additional information where necessary. Validate and verify the data submitted by grant recipients by investigating and researching background information. Identify and work closely with selected consultants who will be handling aspect of the due diligence processes. Follow up with grant recipients to ensure that gaps identified as a result of the due diligence processes have been addressed. Review financial reports submitted by grant recipients for accuracy and completeness and compliance with grant conditions and recommend follow up actions for the Finance and/or Resourcing teams as appropriate. Send grant confirmation to all grantee auditors on request. Work very closely with the Resourcing department to address all finance related issues of grantees. Contribute to monthly and quarterly reports on due diligence related activities to the Finance Manager Work in collaboration with the Agency and resilience team to develop ideas for financial management technical support to grantee partners. Financial and Management Accounting and Systems Support Ensure that