Finance & admin professional with over 10 years of successful experience in finance & administration. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in humanitarian sector. Strengths in finance management & control, human resources, logistic , operation & administration. Use-to with compliances and guidelines of leading international donors and aid organizations including CDC,USAID, ECHO, DFID, UNICEF, WFP, BMZ, Oxfam GB,etc.
· Supervise the payment of all projects expenses (invoices, taxes, salaries etc.)
· Compile, control and validate the projects expenses through the Peach tree software.
· Ensure the correct allocation of the expenses (accounting codes and donors budget lines) and the respect of NDF internal procedures as well as donors requirements
· Proceed to the monthly accountancy closure (bank reconciliations and cash counts, books balances, matching of the advances…)
· Review the hard copies and ensure that they respect NDF procurement procedure.
· Ensure a reliable and comprehensible/traceable archiving of all documents
· Develop and implement finance and accounting procedures in line with NDF internal rules and donor requirements
· Support and organize monthly updates of the budget follow-up through the finance team.
· Prepare the financial and administrative reports (donors reports, internal reports, etc.)
· Check and validate the monthly payroll, ensure the payment of salaries, taxes on time.
· Follow up the contracts and agreements (rental contracts, dates and renewal, respect of the conditions and legal aspects…)
Annual budget, budgetary planning & cost management prepare as per annual work planed (AWP) 2018 & 2019 with UNICEF.
Presented & facilitated reviews of actual to budget expenditures with nutrition coordinator & project manager
Provide recommendations for budget realignments as per budget like budget line, donner code, description, accounting codes etc.
Implement financial procedure by trained to the 16 IYCF & 16 nutrition assistant, nutrition supervisor & IMO
Maintain the organizations system of accounts ensuring all accounting data is updated in the spread sheet accounting software , reconciled and fully supported
Implement & monitor cash transfer program to 1200 LHWS through easy paisa.
Support to internal and external audit teams and ensure the smooth audit process.
Quarterly direct cash transfer raise to UNICEF for ensure timely fund availability for the program activity
Preparation and execution of bank cheques/cash for timely payment of financial obligations ( Procurements, salaries, service providers, Taxes etc.)
Monthly/annually financial closure (accounting software ledger backup , cash inventory, bank books, bank reconciliation, advance book etc.)
Quarterly financial report, face form, activity reports & underspent OR over spent justification letter submitted to the UNICEF.
Processes monthly payroll and ensure that payroll is completed in compliance with Pakistan tax and labor requirements.
Ensures timesheets are completed in timely submission with adequate approval, accuracy, in alignment with funding and filings.
Coordination with social security departments, federal board of revenues, banks regarding financial matters.Â
Budget Revision with collaboration of project manager under the project Increasing Community Resilience to Natural Hazards by Reducing vulnerabilities to Risk funded by BMZ
Budget forecasting after meeting with program staff, support staff & implementation partner staff.
Prepare annual budget 2015 to 2018 for implementation partner (a local NGO) & follow up their spending.
Orientation sessions conducted for partner organization as well as for handicap international field staff at initial stage of project & also took refresh sessions.
Cash forecast raise on the monthly bases to HI HQ France after meeting with program staff Handicap international & partner organization to ensure availability of funds.
Implement cash grant process for 2500 community workers
Supervise the on spot purchasing livelihood (goat/cow) from open local market by the implementation partner
Maintain the accounting software NAVASION to ensure accuracy of financial data.
Ensure & attached the proper filled & validated supporting documents as per donner & handicap International policies.
Prepare payments against the procurement of (supplies, services, transportations ), salary of staff, withholding taxes , social security (EOBI) deductions , peridium & training allowances etc
Re-allocation of financial transaction as per budget send to HQ after budget revision has been approved & also update monthly bases.
Share the Budget follow up (BFU) with the program team for their knowledge & further planning on monthly bases
Quarterly partner financial accountancy (soft & hard) from 2015 to 2018 control & ensured the compliance as per donor requirement.
Coordinated with internal audit team for their observation & suggestions
Prepared the cash disbursement plan for HI & IP to minimize the risk in term of security.
Supervise one finance assistant at handicap international office & one account officer in implementation partner office
Monthly/biannually/annually base accounting closure like (accounting software ledger backup, bank book, cash inventory & cash book, bank reconciliation, ledgers, support contract follow-ups, liability sheet, inventory reconciliation sheet
Bi-annually financial report submitted to head office for submission to donner BMZ
Bi-annually & annually partner financial report submitted to the head office which includes (Financial report, Tri-balance report, partner balance confirmation report, justification note sheet (in case of over or under spend) & activity report
Implement Finance & HR policy for internal compliance
Prepare budget planning tools for the program managers Nutrition, WASH & FSL respectively funded by ECHO-4 & ECHO-5, UNICEF
Prepare monthly cost control plan (CCP) for support activities
Share monthly financial data (spending) with PMs for budget follow up sheet for their review against the planning vs real spending
Provide orientation training on financial & HR policies to the Support, FSL, WASH, Nutrition staff.
Provided training to the WASH & FSL staff for cash transfer & disbursement procedure regarding 21 community hygiene committees & 5000 families for chulli filter installation charges in WASH project & 10,000 families disbursed conditional cash grant.
Supervise the financial data recording in accounting software SAGA
Supervise & sign the payment documents after detail check for all supporting documents & ensure that process is respected.
Supervise the daily HR work activities i.e attendance, recruitments, new joining, orientation sessions , staff complains, staff assistance etc.
Consolidate cash request from WASH, Nutrition, FSL departments & shared monthly treasury forecast to the head office.
Weekly cash control with finance assistant
Validate the payroll after technical review and ensure the calculations (additions & deductions) are properly updated with proper supporting documents (Attendance sheets, over time, advances etc.).
Supervised the thirteen support staff (finance assistant, HR assistant, nine admin operators for FSL activities , office boy & cleaner)
Monitor the recruitment process from requesting job opening (Ads) to staff recruitment, initial short listing, be part in interviews with panel, staff joining and orientation.
Coordination with Head office for addition and deletion of staff from Life & Health Insurance
Conducted disciplinary actions in case of misconduct of policies.
Kept track of performance appraisal evaluation deadlines and inform to managers in time to ensure that regular and timely feedback (Interim and annual evaluation) is provided.
Admin report (finance & HR) weekly update
Accounting closure monthly/annually ( Software ledger backup,Bank Book, Bank reconciliation, cash book, cash inventories, currency exchange sheet)
• Implement financial procedure & ensure that each employee respected
• Manage & monitor procedures of cash/bank management (advances procedures, receipt, payment, invoice verification, Cash withdrawn, daily inventories , safety of cash & recoding in cash book & bank book )
• Implement & monitor the payment procedure for 15000 cash for work community workers.
• To prepare the premises contract (as per as government law) & maintain the premises follow up data base.
• To prepare & deposit electronically the withholding tax challan (as per government tax challan) for supplies/services/transport/premises & employee on their salary each month) & provide the tax deduction certificate to supplier/employee on request.
• To update the allocation tables (staff, vehicles and premises) according to the new budgets, and at least once a month to have a clear picture of the funding.
• Ensure that archives are properly maintained (paper accountancy copies, scans copies, etc) and sent to head office on a regular basis
• Answer to HQ upon the monthly accounting observations
• To implement the financial system in the organization
• To prepare the financial documents (payment voucher, receipt voucher, travel form, salary sheets format, etc)
• To update the cash book & bank book as per current funding of the organization & present them to Audit company
• To train staff on accounting record keeping & file management.
• To manage day to day financial matters related to SDS & to assist other departments in finalizing matters of financial nature.
• Preparation & Supervising Vouchers Processing of SDS
• Preparation Supervise Income Tax Matters
• Supervise bank Matters
• Monthly cash Flows
• Preparation Monthly financial Reporting to ED & Donors Agencies
• Preparation of Project Budget.
• Internal Auditing of the projects.