Senior Associate – Fund and Grants – Junior Specialist at KPMG

Key Responsibilities

Implementing partner financial monitoring and reporting:

• Support in the review of implementing partners’ progress reports and verification of information reported therein.
• Perform analysis of financial and programmatic information and support in making recommendations to clients.
• Conduct implementation verifications and spot-checks on an ongoing basis.
• Review key implementer and sub-implementer’s capacities and systems to implementing Fund/ Grant activities.
• Provide advise on the key implementer and sub-implementer’s compliance with grant/funding agreements.
• Assist clients in safeguarding expenditures related to supported activities by reviewing plans (workplans and budgets) and providing recommendations to clients.
• Identify areas of financial risks and propose practical risk mitigation approaches.
• Management and escalation of any financial issues to the Finance Specialist/ Fund and Grants manager, as they arise in the financial oversight of partners.
• Support in planning and coordinating of client meetings as part of project implementation
• Support IDAS business development activities including strategy, opportunity tracking, proposal writing, lessons learning and thought leadership.

Skills and experience

• Proven experience of fund and grants management in development programmes across a range of sectoral areas. Health sector experience will have an added advantage.
• Must have a minimum of 5 years experience working in a financial role, preferably with at least 2 years of post-qualification experience related to:
  • financial accounting, with the ability to review and analyseaccounting transactions;
  • reviewing and negotiating budgets;
  • financial management systems, with the ability to review and assess internal controls and financial processes and procedures and provide recommendations for improvement;
  • review of financial statements (including income and expenditure statements, balance sheets and cash reconciliation statements); and
  • review and interpretation of audit reports.
• Well-developed presentation, proposal and report writing, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Degree in Finance/Accounting or a related field from a recognized university.
• Master’s degree is highly preferred and/or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Must have professional qualification –CPA-K, CMA, ACCA, CFA, or CAC.

We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge development programmes across Africa;
• Continuous learning and development;
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams; and
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.