malik asfour

Finance and Compliance Manager at Health Appeal - Amman, Jordan

Duties:
• Supervise the finance management team, allocating responsibilities across donor portfolios and ensuring balanced workloads and effective task distribution.
• Oversee financial operations and compliance frameworks across all program areas, ensuring alignment with internal policies and external donor requirements
• Implement and maintain robust financial controls, procedures, and systems that promote transparency, accountability, and compliance with statutory and donor-specific regulations.
• Serve as the compliance lead for donor and regulatory audits—overseeing documentation, coordinating with auditors, and addressing any findings.
• Conduct internal compliance assessments and risk reviews, identifying gaps in practice and initiating improvements to financial and operational systems.
• Manage the full financial reporting cycle—preparing accurate, donor-compliant reports and ensuring timely submissions as per contractual obligations.
• Provide compliance oversight for subgrants and partner agreements, reviewing financial reports, expenditures, and supporting documentation for compliance.
• Coordinate with internal teams to ensure that grant activities are aligned with budget forecasts, contractual obligations, and donor expectations.
• Monitor the implementation of grant-funded projects to ensure spending remains within approved limits and adheres to donor-specific cost eligibility rules.
• Conduct internal reviews and compliance spot checks to identify risks or inconsistencies and lead corrective action planning as necessary.
• Provide technical support to proposal development teams, contributing to budget design, cost narratives, and the integration of donor-specific compliance requirements.
• Manage financial tracking tools and grant dashboards to provide real-time insights on budget performance, burn rates, and allocation tracking.
• Preparing the budgets and monitoring expenditures against the budget.
• Coordinate with external auditors for annual audits, donor-specific spot checks, and financial reviews, ensuring preparedness and smooth execution.
• Maintain financial records and general ledger in compliance with tax and legal requirements, including income tax, sales tax, and social security obligations.
• Supervise day-to-day financial operations including accounts payable/receivable, cash disbursements, payroll, and bank reconciliations.
• Manage multiple bank accounts, petty cash, credit lines, and ensure adequate liquidity for ongoing operations.

· Supporting the Director of Finance in Supervising the Accountants; and assigning different grants/programs/functions to different Accountants for balanced workload; to ensure efficient and effective financial management for GFP. in compliance with GFP and Donor/Partner policies and reporting requirements.

· Working closely with programs staff for implementation of different projects and ensure that all financial transactions are linked with programs activities.

· Maintaining donor reports and make sure the reports are compliance to donor reporting formats and timely submitted as per contractual requirements.

· Assist with annual audit and donors financial spot checks and compliance.

· Accounts payable, includes processing invoices, following up with vendors and solving discrepancies in timely manner.

· Accounts receivables, including Invoice creation, producing statement of accounts, collections on overdue accounts, and accounts reconciliation when it’s required.

· Banking, processing bank deposits, including trips to the bank. All associated finance entries.

· Processing payouts and petty cash, checks & wire transfers verifying are within Generations for Peace policies and budget lines, correcting errors, questioning abnormal expenses and entering into the finance system.

· GFP credit cards reconciliation and communication for obtaining supporting documentation.

· Secures financial information by completing database backups; keeping information confidential.

· Assist with especial events and projects as required. Brand items, Revenue Generation Events, Programs Reports.

· Assisting with monthly and year end tasks, like payroll and closing financial year.

· Fixed Assets and Depreciation.

· Filling and records retention. 



· Contributing and brainstorming ideas in support of organization objectives.

• Supervising the finance department staff: Assigning different grants/programs/functions to different staff members for a balanced workload.
• Providing direct supervision, daily mentoring and coaching support, Weekly one-on-one meeting, and 6 monthly staff performance review to finance department staff.
• Ensuring efficient and effective financial management for GFP financials in compliance with GFP and Donor/Partner policies and reporting requirements.
• Supervising the preparation of accurate financial reports.
• Leading on monthly, quarterly, and yearly closing process.
• Maintaining donor reports and ensure that reports comply with donor formats and timely submission as per contractual requirements.
• Oversee subgrants to verify adherence to compliance, financial reporting requirements.
• Preparation the budgets and monitoring expenditures against the budget.
• Supporting each department in budget planning ( based on knowledge of costs and on Donor/Partner policies .
• Managing Account payable and account receivables .
• Maintaining financial records and ledger accounts and bank reconciliations.
• Monitoring and maintaining bank accounts, petty cash, credit card accounts, and all GFP funds.
• Managing tax filing, Income tax, Withholding tax, sales tax and social security .
• Liaising with an independent auditor for annual audit, Also completing any additional audits and spot-checks required by Donors/Partners.
• Monitoring cash flow and liquidity to ensure the organization meets its obligations .
• Working closely with program manager to ensure all financial transactions are linked with programs activities.
• Supporting each department in procurement, including maintenance of suppliers database and the selection of preferred suppliers/contractors.
• Proficiency in accounting software, Microsoft Dynamic 356, QuickBooks, Oracle) .

1- March 2016 to present: Generation for peace (Amman, Jordan )
Position Accountant
Key responsibilities:
• Financial donor reporting, managing day to day programs budget spending and information analysis. UNICEF schools financial report Two program (USD 1, 631, 000 Aug 2018 - Aug 2019), (USD 1, 890, 000 Jun 2016 - Jun 2017), GIZ financial report (EUR 120, 000 Aug 2017 - Aug 2018), USIP financial report (USD 46, 000 November 2016 - Sep 2018).
• Accounts payable, includes processing invoices, following up with vendors and solving discrepancies in timely manner.
• Accounts receivables, including processing payments, producing statement of accounts, collections on overdue accounts, and accounts reconciliation when it is required.
• Banking, processing bank deposits, including trips to the bank. All associated finance entries.
• processing payouts and petty cash, verifying is within Generations for Peace policies and budget lines, correcting errors, questioning abnormal expenses and entering into the finance system.
• Secures financial information by completing database backups; keeping information confidential.
• Assisting with monthly and year end tasks, like payroll and closing financial year.
• Contributing and brainstorming ideas in support of organization objectives.
• Cash flow creation for the specific projects and identify the fluctuation.
• ERP system

• Accounts payable, includes processing invoices, following up with vendors and solving discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Maintaining accounting controls by following the policies, procedures and legal requirements.
• Reconcile bank accounts and payments on the accounting software.
• Accounts receivables, including processing payments, producing statement of accounts, collections on overdue accounts, and accounts reconciliation when it is required.
• Working on Payroll cycle.
• Project reports.
• Working on Quick books system and payroll system, wages protect system ( WPS )

-Ensures updated books of accounts and prepares financial statements.
-Handles all bank related transactions including establishing bank facilities.
-Ensures timely collection of accounts receivables
-Review and monitor accounts payable, and payment scheduling
-Monitors the various ledger accounts like revenues, expenditures, receivables, payables and cash balances and prepares reports as requested by the managers.
-Reviews accounting documents to ensure accuracy of information and calculations and makes or directs correcting entries.