Grant Manager at MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices

MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices is a result-oriented social enterprise, which uses modern management and marketing techniques to provide reproductive health care and allied services. MSION’s goal is to meet the needs of underserved Nigerians and dramatically improve access and use of a range of reproductive health services.
MSI Nigeria Reproductive Choices is part of Marie Stopes International’s Global Partnership which is in over 37 countries worldwide and it operates in Nigeria through six service delivery channels.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Grant Manager

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing a well robust project budget in collaboration with programs for new business development (NBD) for each of the channels' cost centres using the approved MSI internal budget template.
• Responsible to properly phased all approved donor budget by Channel/DRL in collaboration with programs using our internal phasing template and transfer same to the MSI project upload template for SUN upload within the set timeline.
• Responsible for monitoring all project-related expenses by validating/providing donor/account codes on all submitted requests (PRF/PR) to prevent the recording and using the PRF tracker to track all approved requests that are in the pipeline with the procurement that are yet to be submitted to finance for posting to SUN. This process is to ensure there is no overspending in any of our project budgets.
• Responsible to review and approved all recoding journals which must be saved in the recoding month folder before it can be posted to SUN.
• Responsible to maintain an up to date BVA/PFR for each of project by ensuring all the required tabs/sections are properly completed with a detailed and quantifiable commentary on the variances and prepare a consolidated summary that shows all our project status by project and channel.
• Responsible for preparing an error-free donor report and submitting it to the Finance Manager for approval two days before MSI deadline.
• Responsible for providing a project status report for all our current projects in a consolidated format approved by the Finance Manager
• Responsible for coding and Posting all Intercompany related transactions and ensuring it is fully reconciled with a detailed explanation of the outstanding items.
• Responsible for performing a monthly reconciliation on Deferred Income by the project including UNFPA donated stock with a detailed schedule that reconciles with each project balance and ensures no balances is sitting on closed project.
• Responsible for providing an updated funding pipeline/cost matrix monthly, including the implementation of the support office cost allocation policy by fairly attributed SO cost across our current project.
• Responsible for working with P1 BH/Channel Leads to prepare an accurate rolling forecast/quarterly forecast and BP within the set internal timeline.
• Preparation of monthly presentation report where all current project updates are provided, in terms of all project YTD/FY status, reasons for over/under spent, challenges and their implication with clear action plan to address them.

Key Experience / Qualification

• A Degree in Accounting with a minimum of 2nd class Upper division or its equivalent, and a recognised professional qualification such as ACA, or ACCA.
• Good administrative and organizational skills.
• 6-8 years proven experience in managing donor budgets in an international NGO.
• Ability to use SUN Accounting package and other accounting packages.
• Advanced Excel skills preferred.
• Ability to multitask, manage a workload and produce high-quality reports.
• Good team player and flexible while working with other colleagues.

Application Closing Date
23rd November, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their comprehensive resume with a brief cover letter as one MS Word document or PDF to: msngrecruitment@msichoices.org.ng using the Job Title and Location as the subject of the mail.

Note

• There are no relocation allowances available for this position.
• If the underline instructions are not followed application will not be considered.
• This role is open until filled and we will be conducting Interviews on a rolling basis even while the advertisement is still active.