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Job DESCRIPTION Job Title: Coordinator - Finance Grade: H Department: Finance & IT Reporting to: Head - Grants Contract Duration: 1 year (extendable) Location: Rohat Pali, Rajasthan Background Save the Children is a leading independent child rights organization that fights for children's rights and delivers immediate and lasting improvement to children's lives worldwide. Save the Children, founded in 1919 as a response to the condition in Europe immediately following the First World War, is a federation of 29 members with similar vision, mission, and values for children, working in more than 120 countries to form a truly international movement for children. Save the Children, Bal Raksha, Bharat (SC BR) is the 28th independent member of the International Save the Children Alliance. Save the Children in India works on 5 core themes: Child Survival, Education, Child Protection, Humanitarian and Disaster and Risk Management in collaboration with the Government, civil society organizations, and the community across 16 states and has reached over 3 million children across India. Function: The Finance and accounts function is mainly responsible for maintenance of books of accounts financial reporting both internal and external, financial system control, statutory and regulatory compliance, proper utilisation of funds and for the organization, timely reporting to the donors. Role Purpose : Role & responsibilities Budgeting: - · Assist the Programme Manager & Prog. Staff in preparing and finalizing the budget for the Nayara Grant including revision, if any. · In consultation with the State teams, prepare monthly cash flows for the Nayara Grant in Agresso for uploading in order to have a better monitoring mechanism. · Ensure that the donor approved budget is circulated to the budget holders and their team for their reference and necessary action; so that all are on the same page. · BVA, on a monthly basis, within 2 days of the hard closure of the month to be shared with the Prog Manager & Head-Grants at NSO for necessary & corrective action on a real time basis. Donor compliances & Reporting: - Compile donor financial reports as per donor formats and timelines for final sign off by Head – Grants at NSO Ensure that all the donor guidelines and reporting requirements have been complied with while compiling the report. Ensure complete compliance to donor requirements; Ensure that timely information is provided to the donor about any deviation to the already agreed clauses in the donor agreement; Audit Related work: - · Assist in the preparatory work that is required before the audit takes place; · Support in Statutory/Grant/Internal audit, as and when required. Income Calling: - · Alert to Head Grants for all incomes which are due and receivable pertaining to Nayara Grant. · Assist in the preparation of PRF (Payment Request) for Nayara. Finance Controller: - · Responsible for keeping a track of grant budgets and expenditures and do variance analysis on monthly basis. · Ensuring all activity-based expenditures are as per the donor approved budget and any major variances to be avoided. · Conduct jointly monthly meeting with the Prog Manager along with the prog staff after month closure to judge the health status of the Nayara Grant being implemented in Rajasthan. Salary Allocation: - · Salary Allocation file for all staff supported under the Nayara Grant is to be done in accurate manner, so that no under/overcharging of salaries are done. · Payment process - (other than partner) Vendor & Employee: - · Receiving and reviewing bills, ensure preparing vouchers with proper accounting & budget codes captured, and reviewing thoroughly entries that are posted by the Finance Coordinators in Agresso and bank batch upload. Ensure before batch preparation the payment tracker is duly & accurately filled up by finance & admin and the amount matches with the batch prepared. · Payment to be restricted twice in a week unless there is something urgent and needs immediate action. · All financial documentation pertaining to the Nayara Grant are stored for easy retriever during any Audit. Miscellaneous: - · Ensuring ICR is charged to the Nayara Grant on a monthly basis as per the donor approved budget. · To be a member of the Procurement Committee for all procurements related to Nayara Grant for due diligence prospective from Finance. · Prepare key compliance checklists as per donor contracts for high-risk/value grants; Any other duties assigned by Line Manager. Measures of Performance 1) Nil internal/Statutory audit observations w.r.t locations allocated under his/her supervision. 2) Nil Statutory noncompliance 3) Ensuring proper booking and monthly provisioning of expenditure Approval Authority: As per Scheme of Delegation Reporting: Direct (solid-line) to (functional): Head - Grants Matrix (dotted line) to (administrative): NA Key relationships: (Internal & External stakeholders) Internal Stakeholders (collaborates with): Finance team & Grant team External Stakeholders: Internal auditors, Statutory auditors Candidate specification: Experience: 3-6 years of relevant experience for
· Knowledge of Accounting Standards, Practices, rules, FCRA, Income Tax & other legal compliances · Good communication skills, Interpersonal, and MS office skills Disclaimers: · Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values, and principles · Recruitment and selection procedures, which include rigorous background checks, reflect our commitment to the protection of children from abuse · Save the Children aims to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all applications irrespective of age, race, colour, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief or creed. Women candidates are encouraged to apply. We are also open to applications from people who want to work flexibly. Child Safeguarding level required - Job level 1 Statement Level: The role holder will not have contact with children and/or young people, or access to personal data about children or young people, as part of their work; therefore a police check will not be mandatory unless the content or location of the role changes, in which case the Child Safeguarding level will be reviewed.