Finance Director
004 International- Egypt
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :22 years, 10 أشهر
• Assist in performing all tasks necessary to achieve the organization's mission and help execute staff succession and growth plans.
• Train the Finance Unit and other staff on raising awareness and knowledge of financial management matters.
• Work with the Chairman/COO on the strategic vision including fostering and cultivating stakeholder relationships, as well as assisting in the development and negotiation of contracts.
• Participate in developing new business, specifically: assist the CEO and COO in identifying new funding opportunities, the drafting of prospective programmatic budgets, and determining cost effectiveness of prospective service delivery.
• Assess the benefits of all prospective contracts and advise the Executive Team on programmatic design and implementation matters.
• Ensure adequate controls are installed and that substantiating documentation is approved and available such that all purchases may pass independent and governmental audits.
• Provide the COO with an operating budget. Work with the COO to ensure programmatic success through cost analysis support, and compliance with all contractual and programmatic requirements. This includes: 1) interpreting legislative and programmatic rules and regulations to ensure compliance with all federal, state, local and contractual guidelines, 2) ensuring that all government regulations and requirements are disseminated to appropriate personnel, and 3) monitoring compliance.
• Oversee the management and coordination of all fiscal reporting activities for the organization including: organizational revenue/expense and balance sheet reports, reports to funding agencies, development and monitoring of organizational and contract/grant budgets.
• Oversee all purchasing and payroll activity for staff and participants.
• Develop and maintain systems of internal controls to safeguard financial assets of the organization. Oversee the coordination and activities of independent auditors ensuring all audit issues are resolved, and all compliance issues are met, and the preparation of the annual financial statements is in accordance with regulations.
• Attend Board and Subcommittee meetings; including being the lead staff on the Audit/Finance Committee.
• Monitor banking activities of the organization.
• Ensure adequate cash flow to meet the organization's needs.
• Investigate cost-effective benefit plans and other fringe benefits which the organization may offer employees and potential employees with the goal of attracting and retaining qualified individuals.
• Oversee the production of monthly reports including reconciliations with funders and pension plan requirements, as well as financial statements and cash flow projections for use by Executive management, as well as the Audit/Finance Committee and Board of Directors.
and responsibilities
•Oversight and development of an excellent and high performing finance team within the country.
•Recruiting, developing and retaining finance staff from the local labor market.
•Establishing and implementing development and training plans for all finance staff.
•Ensuring performance management of all finance staff occurs in line with the global standards.
•Grants financial reporting and record keeping are thorough, well maintained and accurate.
•Establishing complete grants budgets that include cost recovery of staff costs and support services.
•Accurate maintenance of grants expenditure records including supporting documentation that is approved by the appropriate authority.
•Review of financial reporting prepared for submission to donors to ensure it is accurate and on time.
•Support the country director in preparation of funding requests and communicating other business plans to the regional office.
•Report Programme Unit and Country Office results against budget and other key financial measures to the country management team (CMT) including advising on issues highlighted by the financials and recommendations to address as necessary.
•Organize and control the annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes including communicating instructions and meeting deadlines.
•Manage the general ledger and cash management processes including cash forecasting.
•Update of the financial authorization matrix and obtaining the approval of the country director at least annually and more frequently if required.
•Ensure finance related audit actions are implemented and alternative actions taken as required addressing weaknesses in financial controls and procedures identified in finance and other forms of audit reports.
•Support payroll, regulatory returns and tax compliance as required.
•Provide efficient purchasing and payment services to Plan Egypt staff.
•Ensure financial due diligence of partners is completed as part of partner assessment processes.
•Prepare flow charts for key financial processes plus develop and implement the Operations Book.
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