Grant Finance Officer at Desmond Tutu Health Foundation

Requirements

• National Diploma in finance and/or related field of study
• Minimum of five years hands on financial management/accounting experience, management accounts and income and expenditure statements
• Minimum of five years hands on experience in compiling donor financial reports
• Minimum 3 years in-depth knowledge and experience in project audits
• Minimum 5 years managing Federal, EU and/or other grant funded initiatives
• Computer literacy in Ms Office; Excel Advanced
• Minimum 3 years working knowledge of SAP or similar financial package
• Excellent verbal and written communication; proficiency in English
• Ability to work methodically, efficiently and meticulously
• Strong planning and organizing skills and deadline driven
• Problem solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to multitask, work under pressure
• Ability to work independently and accurately with minimal supervision
• Excellent work standards
• Client focused 

Advantageous:

• Grant administration experience within the academic health research environment or donor funder environment
• Managing subawards 
• Valid code 08 driver’s license
• Be able to start as soon as possible

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day financial administration and management of all grants assigned
• Understand, interpret and advise on donor/funder contracts and grant policy guidelines
• Preparation of financial reports in line with funder requirements
• Analysis of financial reports in a narrative format
• Resource planning and management
• Communication, training and adherence of financial and purchasing policies and procedures to site staff
• Manage projects assets by informing IT, Facilitates and Finance of purchase and movement
• Monitor monthly expenditure allocations in SAP
• Submit invoices to funders timeously and monitor incoming funds
• Prepare monthly project budget vs expense reports for internal review
• Salary allocation management – project current month allocations for assigned projects
• Manage site petty cash requests (daily/weekly/ monthly)
• Manage site credit/debit card transactions (daily/weekly/ monthly)
• Staff management of site finance/procurement administrators
• Maintain project files for accuracy and completeness to be audit ready
• Conduct internal project audits to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation’s internal controls, processes and procedures
• Identity and highlight risks and recommend solutions through audit improvement/action plans to mitigate the risk and to improve audit processes
• Keep abreast of audit regulatory requirements for implementation in the organisation including internal collaboration of organisational best practises
• Any other tasks and duties that may be appropriate to this position