Finance Analyst

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Description: Finance Analyst

Why Join IntraHealth?

IntraHealth International is a global health nonprofit that has worked for 40 years in over 100 countries. We improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work so that everyone everywhere has the health care they need to thrive.

IntraHealth’s programs generate long-term social and economic impact to keep communities around the world healthy, strong, and prosperous. And our dynamic staff are passionate about global health and committed to excellence.

Join us. The future of global health starts here.

SUMMARY OF ROLE

To provide support to the Finance Director and the management teams by generating financial management information such as budget Vs Actual expenditure reports, net dollar investment per facility and per program area and the different technical funding streams.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Budget management and reporting

• Generate monthly program and stream specific actual expenditure reports against budgets.
• Project and track agreed monthly specific budgets with each budget holder against actual spend and patterns/trends
• Work closely with Program teams to develop costed work plans by geographical locations (Clusters and districts), program area and by Facility
• Work with Budget holders in developing adjusted plans aligned to the available budgets.
• Prepare tailored expenditure trends per program area, location and by facility
• Review the per dollar investment in program areas such as FP to ensure the costs are commensurate with numbers reached-making necessary journal adjustments to correct anomalies.
• Review transactional requests from program and operations teams for budget availability before they are forwarded to procurement for execution or to financial accounts for payment.
• Designing budget monitoring tools for all projects and designing tools that link financial performance with program targets achieved. (UNICEF, SUPCAP, RHITES-E)
• Prepare monthly reports linking financial performance to targets achieved to date and recommending changes and catch up plans for both sub recipients and Intra Health international.

Budgeting

• Work closely with the Finance Director and departmental heads in developing the annual budgets.
• Update annual operating and Revenue budgets into the IHBIRD data base.
• Provide support in budgeting and reporting to the financial management function of the RHITES-E consortium member partners, 5 sub awardees and 4 Community based organizations.
• Uploading annual work plan budgets in IHBIRD.
• Develop a cost allocation methodology for absorbing staff time and indirect costs.

Periodic standard reports

• Prepare quarterly donor financial reports with support from the Finance Director for all projects.
• Prepare quarterly accrual reports.
• Prepare the monthly consolidated Expenditure tracker used by the HQ teams in tracking the overall performance of the project budget.

Cost share tracking and reporting

• Work with department leaders to consolidate cost share projections at the beginning of every month.
• Track and follow up departmental leaders over the actual yields of cost share against the planned forecasts for the month using cost share reported actuals vs projections per department.
• Design cost share plans for all projects and follow-up with cost share tracking and monitoring, review cost share journals to ensure they are allocable and allowable.
• Post cost share journals for the DHSS project on a monthly basis.

Management of Overheads and operational costs

• Review the charging of overhead costs to ensure there’s fair share allocation to all funding streams every month.
• Analyze vehicle fuel, service and repair costs against periodic mileage covered and ascertain the effectiveness in the fleet pool.
• Review the charging of staff time to ensure that there is fair time charge for all funding streams and take appropriate actions to ensure there is fair allocation.

Financial Analysis.

• Support the month end closure processes ensuring that accurate data has been posted in the financial management system.
• Work with the Finance Manager ensure all cost categories are reported each month.
• Monitoring project spending at funding streams level and budget lines ensuring that we don’t have overspends or underspends.
• Preparation of revenue journals on a monthly basis and ensuring that month end reports are ready for upload.

Education/Experience Requirements

• Bachelor of Commerce/Accounting degree from a recognized University
• A member of an Accounting professional body
• Experience working with institutional donors such as USAID preferred.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in a busy accounting or auditing environment.
• Holds self-accountable for results.

Required Skills:

• Highly analytical and with good presentation skills
• Excellent financial reporting
• Good communication and Interpersonal skills

Competencies

• Innovation-Develops new, better or significantly different ideas, methods, solutions or initiatives that result in improvement of IntraHealth’s performance and meeting objectives, results and global commitments.
• Accountability – Holds self and others accountable for all work activities, research and personal actions and decisions; follows through on commitments and focuses on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting measurable high-quality results for IntraHealth’s success.  Exercises ethical practices, respectful words and behaviors, and equitable treatment of others in all activities.
• Service Excellence – Knowledge of and ability to put into action customer service concepts, processes, and techniques to access internal and/or external client needs and expectations and meet or exceed those needs and expectations through providing excellent service directly or indirectly.
• Strategic Thinking – Applies organizational knowledge to identify and maintain focus on key success factors for IntraHealth while recognizing, anticipating and resolving organizational challenges. Ability to develop organization- and industry-specific expertise and apply sound decision-making processes to reach productive resolutions that translates strategy into actionable business plans.
• Business Acumen – Knowledge, insight, and application of business concepts, tools, and processes that are required for making sound decisions in the context of IntraHealth’s business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations; including supporting, identifying, assessing, and/or securing new business for the organization.
• Effective Communication (Oral and Written) – Understands effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience; and receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate professional communication behaviors

Summary of Benefits

IntraHealth International, Inc. is a great place to work and prides itself on its comprehensive benefits package.  We offer competitive salaries and a dynamic inclusive work environment which supports health workers so they can improve the lives of people throughout the world.

IntraHealth International is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, and requires affirmative action to ensure equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment.  This is also to include inquiry about, disclosing, or discussing their compensation or the compensation of other applicants or employees. Deadline for submission of application is 23 March 2021.

To apply and learn more about IntraHealth Careers @: http://www.intrahealth.org/section/careers

Learn more about “Who We Are” @: http://www.intrahealth.org/section/about-us1

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