Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Compassion International is a non-profit organization focused on child protection and support. The Grant Financial Specialist II is responsible for managing financial activities for donor-funded awards, ensuring compliance, preparing financial reports, and collaborating with various teams to enhance financial processes.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer
- Act as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur
- Participate in core financial activities across assigned grants, preparing donor‑compliant financial reports, conducting budget variance analysis, and supporting financial aspects of project implementation
- Contribute to financial reporting to institutional and multilateral donors, as well as stakeholders. Utilize financial reporting systems to track grant expenditures and ensure compliance with donor-specific requirements, as well as preparing regular reports for donor-funded projects
- Monitor financials to address any financial discrepancies or compliance issues and coordinates with partner teams and field accounting staff to ensure that procured goods are tracked, documented, utilized, and dispositioned at the end of grants according to donor requirements and organizational policies
- May assist with vendor screening while coordinating with external auditors during donor audits and assist in the preparation of audit schedules and documentation. Serves as a point of contact for financial aspects of procurement audits, including third-party audits such as Single Audit
- Contribute to budgets for government and multilateral donor-funded projects, ensuring accurate and realistic financial planning. Collaborates with global program and national offices to assist with forecasting and monitoring of financial performance against projections
- Work closely with the finance, global program, legal specialists to ensure effective financial management of government and institutional funded projects
- Collaborate with the compliance team to enhance procurement-related financial management
- Support the implementation of various tools and resources to enhance the capacity of the finance team, ensuring compliance and efficiency in managing donor-funded projects
- May coach less experienced financial specialists concerning technical finance issues
Skills
- Solid working knowledge of grant financial management principles
- Experience in financial management and compliance activities for donor-funded awards
- Ability to prepare donor-compliant financial reports
- Experience in conducting budget variance analysis
- Ability to monitor expenditures and strengthen financial controls
- Experience in conducting financial analyses to identify variances and potential risks
- Ability to provide guidance to project staff on routine donor regulations
- Experience in collaborating with partners to ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting
- Ability to track grant expenditures and ensure compliance with donor-specific requirements
- Experience in monitoring financial discrepancies or compliance issues
- Ability to coordinate with partner teams and field accounting staff
- Experience in assisting with vendor screening and coordinating with external auditors
- Ability to contribute to budgets for government and multilateral donor-funded projects
- Experience in collaborating with global program and national offices
- Ability to work closely with finance, global program, and legal specialists
- Experience in collaborating with the compliance team to enhance procurement-related financial management
- Ability to support the implementation of tools and resources to enhance the capacity of the finance team
- Experience in coaching less experienced financial specialists
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