Skills

  • Accounting
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Administration
  • Procurement

Experience

Franklin Anunonwu

Work experience
  • Acts as the focal person for compliance with Tearfund’s policies and statutory regulations both by local and international staff
  • Work with the compliance team to ensure registration and renewal of registration with the statutory bodies and obtain residency permits and visas for our expatriates and travelers
  • Ensures that cash and bank payments using online, cheque, and cash payments are well managed and accurately processed.
  • Manages sub-awards and builds the capacities of local partners
  • Ensures that all payment documents (Purchase Requests, Payment Vouchers, Supplier/Vendor Invoices are adequately reviewed for accuracy, and completeness, and are compliant with Tearfund and donor rules before payments are made
  • Ensures that all agreements (rental, supplies, MOU with partners) are of standard and meet both organizational and legal frameworks.
  • Tracks all agreements including health insurance and registration certificates due dates for timely renewal
  • Responsible for balance sheet reconciliation monthly
  • Ensures all Cash and bank reconciliations are properly and accurately done each month
  • Prepare monthly payroll and ensure that salary scales are updated and increases (Cost of Living Allowances) are adequately worked out and paid
  • Responsible for payroll reconciliation monthly
  • Responsible for preparing annual consolidated budgets, donor budgets, and activity budgets
  • Responsible for budget tracking and preparing monthly budget versus actual analysis (BVA)
  • Responsible for preparing monthly management report/Account
  • Ensures all statutory payments (taxes, pensions, NSITF) are accurately and timely made
  • Takes part in recruitment, job descriptions, skill set, inductions, and interviews
  • Reviews all cash sheets for posting every month
  • Reviews and ensures all procurement processes, policies, and procedures are followed for value for money
  • Ensure that statutory and donor audits are conducted with ease and efficiency
  • Follows up with audit recommendations and ensure they are resolved
  • Reviews all purchase requests, payment vouchers, and procurement documents for accuracy and completeness before payment
  • Ensures that all expenses meet the cost principles (allocable, allowable, and reasonable)
  • Represent the organization in all external finance meetings such as INGO Finance Working Group
  • Ensures country office solvency by making timely cash advance requests from the UK (HQ)
  • Prepares timely donor reports in donor templates and ensures proper close-out processes
  • Ensures sound grant management and reporting in line with Cooperative Agreements
  • Ensures that all finance and procurement policies are maintained
  • Ensures all travels are properly authorized before payments
  • Coordinates travel advances and payments for staff in Nigeria
  • Ensures that advances are properly tracked and retired
  • Takes an active part in financial planning and strategy development
  • Attains external stakeholder meetings including the INGO Forum
  • Perform all other functions to ensure effective financial management within the organization

Franklin Anunonwu

Work experience
  • Partners grant and financial management capacity building
  • Monitors and reviews partners’ donor financial reporting
  • Manages all aspects of day-to-day Tearfund Yola office financial activities
  • Prepares financial status report
  • Prepares and monitors budget and budget implementation
  • Ensures both donor and Tearfund compliance is met
  • Provides support to procurement and logistics unit for proper compliance
  • Ensures all advances are tracked and retired/liquidated on time
  • Participates in Proposal development and budgeting
  • Handles the monthly country cash book and ensures timely submission
  • Ensures that both cash and bank reconciliations are done accurately and submitted on time
  • Reviews all Purchase Requests and other payment document to ensure accuracy and completeness
  • Assists in preparing monthly Budget Versus Actual Analysis
  • Ensures that financial policies and procedures

Franklin Anunonwu

Work experience
  • Managing all aspects of day-to-day operations of the accounting department in the field office.
  • Assist in the implementation of finance policies, procedures, and systems.
  • Ensure compliance with IRC, partner, and donor procedures and guidelines.
  • Submit expenditure worksheets to the Finance Head of Office on or before the 3rd of every subsequent month
  • Review all payment documents for proper and adequate backup.
  • Review expenditure worksheets for accuracy and completeness.
  • Liaise with Logistics, Administration, and programs to prepare commitment lists every month for financial obligations already entered into but not captured in financial reports.
  • Preparer a bank reconciliation for the field office and send it to the main office by the 3rd of every month.
  • Liaison with the field office bank on all banking issues.
  • Ensure that statutory deductions are paid on time to avoid any penalty
  • Forward to the payroll Administrator every month, outstanding personnel advances and charges related to the salary for recovery. Ensure that advances taken in a given month are liquidated appropriately.
  • Conduct a timesheet audit for the field office from time to time.
  • Personnel Management
  • Serve as a technical resource person for the accounting department.
  • Administrative duties
  • Take an active part in all activities done daily in the accounts department.
  • Logistics duties
  • Review all POs and PRs for proper coding and budget adequacy before approval.
  • In liaison with the Logistics department, prepare commitment lists every month for financial obligations already entered into but not captured in financial reports.
  • Grants duties:
  • Support Grants and Communication Officer with inputs into grant reporting documents, particularly budgets and budget narratives
  • Track donor and partner report due dates to ensure quality and timely submission of all
  • Reports
  • Attends Bid opening and analysis meetings (Procurement process)
  • Attends grant opening meetings and organizes trainings to staff and partners
  • Ensures that grants are closed in line with donor (USAID etc) regulations
  • Participate in the evaluation of applications and assessment of sub-grantees
  • Responsible for monitoring and reporting on the financial activities of sub-grantees in line with USAID regulations.
  • Receives and implements all procedures and templates for formulating, executing, monitoring, and reporting grant activities and expenses
  • Maintains updated grant records and communicates information to the Finance Director, Program coordinators, and donor(s)
  • Coordinates monitoring and mentoring visits to partners and sub-grantees to ensure compliance with donor regulations and Generally Accepted Accounting Standards (GAAP)
  • Participates in proposal development and evaluation of award grants
  • Finance/Budgeting
  • Act at all times in accordance with local law and standards of accounting practice.
  • Review documents with the objective of gaining clear understanding of budget guidelines and instructions
  • Review funding allocations to enable proper guidance to programs and proper coding.
  • Provide training to program staff on finance issues.
  • Receptive to training provided and to develop his or her technical and professional competence.
  • Produce monthly and quarterly reports to be reviewed by the Finance Manager/Assistant Finance Controller.
  • Assist in budget preparation and preparation of Budget Versus Actual Analysis (BVA)
  • Coordination
  • In coordination with the supervisor, carry out appraisals for staff in the department.
  • Work closely with other support departments including HR and Admin as well as programs to ensure smooth office functioning
  • Common duties
  • Attend and participate in training identified/organized by your supervisor
  • Follow any new procedures and guidelines designated in circulars from Country Director
  • Report any violations of the IRC Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Code of Conduct (in-country and worldwide) as per the IRC reporting mechanism. The reporting of violations is an obligation on the part of all staff members
  • Assist where necessary in undertaking activities that aim to prevent the occurrence of sexual abuse and exploitation of refugees by IRC and other humanitarian workers.
  • Perform other duties as may be assigned by your supervisor
  • Participates in proposal development and evaluation of award grants

Franklin Anunonwu

Work experience
  • January, 2011 - January, 2015
  • Fulltime
  • Handle cash and cheque deposits to bank/withdrawals and keep cheque register
  • Prepares both soft and hard copy financial reports for submission to funders
  • Maintains transactional relationship with the bank regarding exchange rates, bank statements, and account balances, timely processing of payments
  • Prioritizes and responds to emails timely
  • Track all correspondences and ensures that requested responses are returned on time or as needed
  • Handles cash/fund request, travel advance, petty cash, and procurements and ensure proper retirements of all advances to staff.
  • Coding all expenses and making weekly cash counts to ascertain cash balances
  • Keep and maintain all financial records of the organization using Excel and QuickBooks
  • Prepare timesheet, pay slips, payroll, and computation of PAYE and withholding taxes and coordinates tax remittance and proper documentation with the tax authorities
  • Ensure all monies allotted for projects and activities are spent and retired accordingly
  • Ensure compliance with the financial and administrative policies of the organization
  • Develop a budget for the activities and programs
  • Prepare monthly bank reconciliation statements for all bank accounts
  • Represent the organization effectively on pre-award assessments (NHOCAT, OCA)
  • Ensures donor accounting systems are complied with
  • Ensures adherence to budget
  • Any other functions assigned by the finance manager

Franklin Anunonwu

Work experience
  • January, 2009 - December, 2010
  • Fulltime
  • Ensures that all units/departments abide by the internal control procedures, policies, rules, and regulations in place
  • Oversee the micro-credit facilities for women’s groups and associations
  • Supervise the department/unit heads to ensure effectiveness and efficiency
  • Negotiates contracts on behalf of the organization
  • Perform any other function as assigned by the chief executive officer

Franklin Anunonwu

Work experience
  • January, 2007 - December, 2009
  • Fulltime
  • Monitors the daily activities of the teaching staff
  • Coordinates all learning activities in the school
  • Ensures compliance with internal control systems
  • Evaluates the performance of the teaching staff
  • Coordinates the students in a manner that enhances learning and disciplines
  • Performs all other functions as may be assigned from time to time by the chief executive.

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