Responsibilities and tasks

Financial Control

• Preparing budgets and forecasts.
• Preparing the monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements.
• Preparing the annual accounts, including the audit file. You are also the contact person for the external auditor in this regard.
• Monitoring financial flows within the organisation and preparing liquidity forecasts.
• Drafting other management reports and analyses in this respect.
• Optimising and further improving financial processes.
• Providing solicited and unsolicited advice on various topics that may have a financial impact on the organisation.
• General ledger control and processing of memorandum entries.

Project Control

• Acts as a contact point and adviser to Project Managers during the planning (including preparing project budgets), operational, and reporting phases of projects.
• Generating timely, complete, and accurate information and financial project reporting in cooperation with project managers in agreement with reported project performance.
• Monitors financial flows within projects.
• Identifies proactively (potential) financial bottlenecks and risks within projects and takes appropriate action.
• Prepares timely, complete, and accurate project reporting to donors and, when applicable, prepares project-related audit files according to requirements and deadlines.
• Prepares, in cooperation with Project Managers, project budget forecasts.
• Assists and advises the Project Assistant in drafting standard contracts for consultants, partners, and subcontractors and their processing.
• Communicates and monitors required internal and external (grant-) regulations and conditions.
• Takes responsibility for project administration of projects in the financial system.