Job Purpose/Summary
The
Grants Officer/Accountant will be responsible for monitoring the financial
progress of research and programmatic grants by preparing grant budgets and
developing grant financial reports according to the guidelines of the granting
agency. The successful candidate will work closely with the Grants Coordinator
and the research team to ensure financial compliance during grant
implementation, as well as to support audits and financial accounting for
grants.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Grants Coordinator
and program staff, to ensure transactions are properly recorded and agree
to the grant/contract agreement, while also ensuring
sub-recipients/subcontracts costs are correctly captured.
- Prepare of internal grants reports to be
shared with the Principal Investigators
- Prepare donors reports as per their
specification and on timely and accurate basis.
- Review budgets and reimbursement requests
for appropriateness, and ensure sub-recipients follow established
administrative and financial policies, procedures, and sound business
practices.
- Exercise judgement to ensure that all
decisions relating to research grant management are made in accordance
with relevant rules, legislation, and policies and to check that the
university’s best interests are served by the decisions.
- Build effective communication strategies
with a variety of stakeholders and colleagues to ensure that information
exchanges are timely, accurate and useful.
- Facilitate Internal and external grant
financial audit.
- Review requisitions raised by the
different departments to ensure spending is within the approved budgets.
- Ensure requisitions are done in a timely
manner and charged correctly.
- Pass Journal Entries in Ledger related to
grants.
- Review Trial Balance of Grants and
prepare reports accordingly.
- Maintain efficient electronic and paper
filing systems for financial records and submit required documents to
relevant donors.
Relevant Experience and
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree in Business
Administration /Accounting or Finance
- CPAK/ ACCA qualifications
- 2-3 years of professional experience in
finance and accounting.
- Prior experience in a granting agency
will be an added advantage.
- Excellent command of MS Excel and MS
PowerPoint will be an added advantage.
How To Apply