Finance and Grants Manager

Requirements

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting or business-related field,
  
• Full professional accounting qualification (CPA (K) or ACCA) and active membership in ICPAK or an equivalent recognized professional accounting body.
  
• Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in finance and grants management, including at least 3 years in a supervisory or management role. Experience with donor funded programs across several countries, including managing subawards to partners, is required. Experience managing Mastercard Foundation-funded programs is an added advantage.
  
• Experience using enterprise resource planning and financial reporting systems, with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Experience with dashboards or business-intelligence tools is desirable
  
• Proactive and Service oriented: provides efficient, high-quality service to the program
  
• Integrity: Honest, above reproach and appropriate in actions / behaviour and transparent in conduct.
  
• Result Oriented/ Focused: Ability to consistently meet set goals. Focused, efficient and goal oriented. Ability to direct others to perform set duties.
  
• Professionalism: Application of ethics, principles, standards and expertise in all areas of work.
  
• Teamwork, Interpersonal Relations: Working and relating with others in mutual support and respect towards common goals and shared vision. Builds and nurtures strong and authentic reciprocal relationships. Avoids domineering or patronizing behaviour.
  
• Multi-cultural fit & Respect for Diversity: An ability to work effectively, respectfully and inclusively with people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives is critical for all staff members.
  
• Communication: Ability to express oneself, share and exchange information clearly and proactively, in a timely and client friendly style.
  
• Innovation & Creativity: Ability to generate new ideas and ways of working to continuously improve existing work processes, practices, concepts
  

Requirements

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting or business-related field,
  
• Full professional accounting qualification (CPA (K) or ACCA) and active membership in ICPAK or an equivalent recognized professional accounting body.
  
• Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in finance and grants management, including at least 3 years in a supervisory or management role. Experience with donor funded programs across several countries, including managing subawards to partners, is required. Experience managing Mastercard Foundation-funded programs is an added advantage.
  
• Experience using enterprise resource planning and financial reporting systems, with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Experience with dashboards or business-intelligence tools is desirable
  
• Proactive and Service oriented: provides efficient, high-quality service to the program
  
• Integrity: Honest, above reproach and appropriate in actions / behaviour and transparent in conduct.
  
• Result Oriented/ Focused: Ability to consistently meet set goals. Focused, efficient and goal oriented. Ability to direct others to perform set duties.
  
• Professionalism: Application of ethics, principles, standards and expertise in all areas of work.
  
• Teamwork, Interpersonal Relations: Working and relating with others in mutual support and respect towards common goals and shared vision. Builds and nurtures strong and authentic reciprocal relationships. Avoids domineering or patronizing behaviour.
  
• Multi-cultural fit & Respect for Diversity: An ability to work effectively, respectfully and inclusively with people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives is critical for all staff members.
  
• Communication: Ability to express oneself, share and exchange information clearly and proactively, in a timely and client friendly style.
  
• Innovation & Creativity: Ability to generate new ideas and ways of working to continuously improve existing work processes, practices, concepts