The Finance Officer will be responsible for implementing finance and accounting work processes with a focus on project management, financial transaction processing as well as recording, maintaining accurate books of account, and preparing timely financial reports for different stakeholders including internal clients, partners, donors, auditors and regulatory authorities, within approved accounting standards and CEHURD’s policies and procedures.

Financial planning and budgeting:
In conjunction grants development team, prepare project budgets and forecasts during proposal writing phase.
Work with project teams to develop costed work plans for project(s).
Monitor budget and financial plan implementation and prepare appropriate weekly tracking reports and share them with the donor during the weekly update meetings.
Analyse trends to identify issues that might impact on the financial wellbeing or viability of project(s) and advise management accordingly.
Prepare reports that analyze budgets against actuals income and expenses and advises management on the variances observed, if any with emphasis on the activity budget lines lagging behind
Carry out weekly review of the financial performance of project(s) and advise the responsible teams accordingly on the burn rate
Financial accounting and management:
Participate in the day-to-day financial transactions including invoicing the donor in time to manage cash flow.
Maintain an up-to-date records of the financial transactions in CEHURD’s Financial Management System (Quick books). Accurately post all financial transactions in the financial management system (Quick books) in accordance with agreed directorate procedures and financial standards on a daily basis.
Ensure that all transactions are posted in both the CEHURD financial management system and TASO management system in not more than one day after payment has been made.
Up-date the financial transaction on the Donor’s portal on a daily basis and make surrenders
Main an updated cash book ledger Profit and Loss for programme
Process payment vouchers and follow up the approval process to ensure that payment are timely paid. Ensure that the payment Vouchers are sequentially number and payments are filled timely to allow ease access of records for future reference.
Follow up the Finance assistant to ensure that payment vouchers filled properly.
Post the approved budget into the financial management system within one week of approval of the budget.
Prepare monthly donor reports in the approved donor templates and formats and share them for review by the 5th of the following month.
Maintain a fixed asset register for all assets procured by the project as per CEHURD approved template
Work with procurement officer to ensure that all assets are engraved as per the donor/CEHURD guidelines before handing them over to final user
Prepare monthly salary transfer from the project account to the salary account  promptly and any changes in staff are taken care of during the monthly transfers.