Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD) is a children and women’s rights national nongovernmental organization supporting the Humanitarian, Development and Peace (HDP) nexus in Nigeria. CASFOD envisions a world where all people even in remote areas of the world hold the power to create opportunities for themselves and others.
CASFOD operates with a 5-pillar strategy encompassing health & nutrition, education, protection, WASH and livelihood supporting emergencies affected persons including women and children with humanitarian and development services.
CASFOD seeks dedicated staff members who are enthusiastic about contributing to our organization’s innovative programming initiatives aimed at supporting children and women.
FINANCE AND COMPLIANCE COORDINATOR
Role Purpose:
The role will conduct and support daily financial compliance operations. This will comprise setting up compliance monitoring systems; producing compliance reports; review and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of operations, reliability of financial reporting, compliance with applicable laws and the safeguarding of assets, perform and report back on internal assessments to ensure that financial control, financial guidelines and other control procedures are in place and are being properly implemented and managed; financial and risk monitoring; and ensuring compliance with CASFOD requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review monthly financial report and follow up with other departments for any corrective actions required.
- Ensure financial and operational compliance at CASFOD.
- Support the budget development and budget planning processes, including development of internal budgeting guidelines, templates and tools, grant proposal development and budget modifications.
- Review, analyze and discuss with head of programs the budget vs actual reporting process for all grants.
- Support regular update/analysis of the BVAs and pipelines. Ensure monthly review of transactions for compliance and eligibility under grants.
- Review payment and other documents for accuracy, complete and compliance with CASFOD’s policies, donor regulations and local laws.
- Assist in the month end accounting close process for CASFOD, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the ledger, and all supporting documentation.
- Ensure compliance of all supply chain processes including procurement, logistics management, fleet management, inventory management and warehousing management.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Undergraduate degree in accounting/finance or equivalent.
- Professional Accounting qualification.
- At least 3 years’ experience conducting audit activities.
- Highly skilled in financial statement preparation for purposes of audit (Essential).
- Excellent understanding of business and financial planning including strategic modelling.
- Computer fluency; highly competent using Microsoft Excel and other MS applications.
- Familiarity with computerized accounting systems
- Ability to gather facts and data, scrutinize with ease, determine a logical solution and resolve issues with minimal supervision.
- Proven ability to handle challenging workload.
- The highest level of integrity and commitment to prevent corruption and Fraud.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to interact with all departments in CASFOD.
Method of Application
- Interested persons who meet the qualifications and experience and are confident of meeting key responsibilities are to complete the LINK.
- Vacancy closes on the 26th of January 2025
- No applications will be received at CASFOD office neither through any email address.
- CASFOD is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Women and persons with disability are highly encouraged to apply.
- Background and reference checks will be conducted, and ethics is part of annual performance appraisals.
- CASFOD will require applicants to self-declare prior issues of sexual or other misconduct, termination of past employment, criminal records, and concerns registered with government authorities regarding contact with children, and to consent to the disclosure of any such information by their former employers during verification of references.
