Finance Officer -Partner/Budget/Reporting and Compliance

Title: Finance Officer -Partner/Budget/Reporting and Compliance TEAM/PROGRAMME: Zambia Finance Team LOCATION : Lusaka GRADE : NAT 4 POST TYPE: National Safeguarding : Save the Children does not tolerate any form of exploitation, abuse, or harassment against any person. It is the responsibility of all employees and representatives to protect all people who come in contact with our organization. Save the Children commits to applying the same standards to all its employees and subject them to the same processes regardless of their position, influence, or reputation within or outside of the organization. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Save the Children International’s Diversity Policy, aims to promote equal opportunity in employment and to ban any kind of discrimination based on sex, age, social class, disability, HIV status, religion, race and ethnicity. ROLE PURPOSE: To implement financial procedures and policies of Save the Children and be responsible for preparing financial statements, maintaining cash controls, maintaining accounts payable and processing of payments under the awards. The Finance officer will also be responsible for the overall award budgeting, donor reporting, financial and partner compliance aspects. The post holder ensures high quality services to Partners are in line with SCI Policies and Procedures. SCOPE OF ROLE: Reports to: Finance Coordinator. Staff directly reporting to this post: None. Budget responsibility : None KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Budget Preparation, Management and Monitoring Responsible for the overall day-to-day activities of budgeting, donor reporting and Partnership unit. support the development of cost proposals for new programs as well as for existing grant modifications by ensuring all relevant stakeholders are involved in the budgeting process. Maintains information on budget availability for all grants. Ensures budgets in BVA report are updated on a periodic basis. Produces high-quality Budget vs. Actuals (BvA) analyses