Project Accountant

Main Job Purpose

Grants/project Accountant is responsible of the financial management of up to 3 Grants / projects with same level of complexity and processing of different types of requests for  these grants/projects; s/he will support the finance operations and contribute to ensuring and maintaining a high level of finance control and compliance to CARE Egypt Foundation  financial policies and procedures

Objectives

• Efficient financial management of all grants
• Accurate compilation, analysis and reporting of accounting data.
• Timely receipt of donors’ funds
• Ensure the application of CARE policies and procedures, donor regulations, and internal control at project level
• Timely and accurately processing of all financial transactions.  
• Participate in Monthly and Yearly and Financial closure.

Accountabilities

• In Coordination with the Shared service Centre, follow the needed steps to provide a set of codes for his/her assigned grants/projects used in the financial Software package to ensure accurate recording of transactions.
• Review transactions, ensure supporting documents attached are accurate and complete and record accounting entries in the system in a timely manner.  
• Prepare and issue all applicable financial reports (donor reports& monitoring reports) ensuring timely submission to the concerned party after being reviewed and approved from grants manger and budget holders for his/her assigned grants /projects and Keep a track on discussion points and make actions as per PMs requests during Monthly Monitoring meetings
• Monitor the collection of the donors’ receivables & ensure timely receipts of cash advances from donors. In addition to record of transfers received from the donor in the system for his/her assigned grants /projects.
• Being responsible of the financial management of sub grants (conduct financial assessment & issue recommendations, review financial clauses in sub grants agreements) for his/her assigned grants /projects and Review of Sub grant documentation package with new partners, making sure all the compliance requirements are met
• In Coordination with the Budget holder, prepare modifications to the budget.
• Facilitate Audit visits (external &internal) including planning the audit schedule, preparing audit contract and clearing audit findings.
• Participating in country office annual planning through support the Project managers in preparation of project annual budget based on their annual plan for his/her assigned grants /project.
• Responsible to provide Finance Orientation to new employees assigned for his/her related project.
• Responsible to solve any financial issues raised in the system in coordination with the Shared service Centre.  
• Ongoing Field Monitoring Visits  
• Review Time entry and follow up with staff members related to his/her assigned Grants/Projects