Finance and Grants Officer

Job Overview:

The Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria (SPRiNG) Programme will support a more stable and peaceful Nigeria, with citizens benefiting from reduced violence and increased resilience to the climate. It will achieve this by supporting Nigerian stakeholders in responding to conflict, security, justice, and natural resource management challenges in target areas. 
SPRiNG will (a) support locally led enhancements to conflict prevention, violence reduction, security and justice and natural resource management; (b) work to remove or lessen the impact of critical barriers to peace; and (c) support partnerships for peace with likeminded international partners to multiply funding spent by FCDO.
Spring is a politically led programme grounded in research, evidence, and science, including political economy and conflict analysis, to ensure that it addresses the root causes of violence. SPRiNG is problem-driven, evidence-based, iterative, adaptive in approach, reflective, responsive, and scalable.

The SPRiNG programme is seeking a Finance and Grants Officer who will be responsible for providing support to the implementation of the SPRiNG programme and Tetra Tech Shared Nigeria services by supporting downstream partner relationship management and fund disbursements. 

Main Duties:

• Partner Engagement and Relationship Management
  Responsible for coordinating downstream partner requirements, compliance and reporting, including the development and review of concept notes, budgets, partner financial reports and disbursements, working closely with Regional Technical Leads and Workstream Leads.
• Support the Organisational Capacity Assessment process, including coordinating regular assessments, spot checks, development of capacity-building work plans for every partner, and the management and delivery of training and capacity-building.
• In collaboration with the Safeguarding Focal Points, ensure partners comply with safeguarding standards.
• In liaison with the Programme Management Unit, play a leading role in partner contract development and follow-on processes.
• Support the Finance & Grants Manager in conducting Partner Internal Audits & spot checks.
• Assist in maintaining the Partner Asset Register.
• Assist in tracking risks associated with individual partners.
• Support the Finance & Grants Manager and Programme Management Unit (PMU) in conducting Partner Due Diligence and Onboarding.
• Support the Finance & Grants Manager in maintaining the Partnership Disbursement Tracker.
• Any other finance-related duties delegated by the Head of Finance & Finance and Grants Manager, including supporting with assigned finance-related tasks.
• Ensure timely remittance of WHT and payroll statutory deductions, such as PAYE, PENSIONS, NSITF, and others, to the relevant Tax Authority.
• On a monthly basis, reconciliation of petty cash and Card expenditures.
• Support finance and grants manager during month-end closures of QuickBooks.
• Process all bank payments, uploads and reconciliations.
• The Finance and Grants Manager may assign any other task.

Grants and Financial Management

• Ensure financial transactions and disbursements to SPRiNG Project Partners are properly authorized, recorded, have adequate supporting documentation, filled, maintained and can be easily extracted for the purpose of preparing financial statements, and financial audits. 
• Review partner financial reports to ensure that spending is in line with the agreed budget and milestones. As part of this, review the requisite supporting documentation to ensure that all financial transactions are adequately supported as per SPRiNG and partner financial policies and guidelines.
• Support the Finance & Grants Manager in the approval and follow-up of partner financial and technical reports, partner acquittals, and partner payments, including monthly or quarterly cash forecasts.
• Support in reviewing, updating and re-aligning partners’ budgets in line with any requests for amendment made by partners and ensuring they correspond with milestone payment schedules and agreed-upon work plans.
• In collaboration with the technical team, ensure that financial reports reconcile with the delivery narrative, work delivered and activity reports.

Partner Financial Analysis

• Support the analysis of all grant management processes for SPRiNG as per the set policies and in collaboration with the Finance and Programme teams.

Aptitude and Skills:

• Experience working on UK donor Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) funded projects.
• Full or part-qualified accountant.
• Experience working with QuickBooks and ApprovalMax.
• Reoccurring demonstratable accounting grants management experience is essential.
• Strong accounting, finance, and administration skills
• Experience supporting the preparation of financial reports.
• Excellent understanding of programme cycle management.
• Excellent command of accounting software.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills and demonstrable experience working with finance and non-finance staff.
• Strong background in financial management systems.  
• Experience auditing partner grants.
• Experience in building the capacity of local organisations and sub-grantees in areas of grant compliance, financial reporting, and accountability.

Qualifications:

• A university degree (or equivalent) in accounting or financial management.
• Any other professional course in finance, grants or programmes will be an added advantage

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:

Tetra Tech prides itself on a workplace culture that advances equality, diversity, and inclusion and ensures the workplace is free from discrimination, harassment, bullying, racism, and hate speech of any form regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, marriage, and civil partnerships. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply for this role.

Think you have what it takes but are not sure you check every box? Research shows that while men apply to roles when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women often only apply when they meet every requirement. If you're passionate about what we're building, we look forward to hearing from you.

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Safeguarding:  

Tetra Tech International Development has robust policies and guidelines which exemplify our commitment to safeguarding and technical excellence in gender equality. Our team of dedicated GEDSI advisers work closely with our staff and partners to ensure a context-specific and consistent approach is applied to all of our programmes to improve the livelihoods of the world’s most marginalised groups.

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