Finance & Compliance Professional
An accomplished and impeccable Finance and Compliance Management Expert with 11+ years’ experience and cross-functional skills in all phases of Accounting, Staff Supervision, Management and partnership management which includes Compliance, Risk analysis, Grant controllership, Payrolls Processing, Account Receivable, bank dealings, vendor negotiations and financial data recording and reconciling. Acknowledged by clients, peers, and management for willingness to consider all options, strike appropriate solutions, and use practical experience and knowledge as a tool for optimum performance and client retention.
* Adept in strategic and tactical compliance & financial management and professional roles, managing staff, budgeting, forecasting and risk & compliance analysis. Established and improved internal control systems, claims process, reimbursement, reconcile statements and financial reports, tax compliance, budgeting, cost reduction expenditure controls, and other related duties.
* Served as a key part of Procurement Committee for last 9 years and supervised tender processes to acquire qualified vendors. Demonstrate talent to instigate analytic work and research projects with proficient expertise in a time sensitive and market driven environment and handle numerous tasks simultaneously.
* Acute knowledge in various accounting & budgeting standards in INGO/Donor driven set ups, agreements and compliance/laws, Right Based Approach with technical proficiency in MS Office, SAP, Peachtree and SAGA.
Prepare and review monthly and quarterly budgetary variances for all projects and ACF.
Review financial reports from partner organization’s and identify errors and gaps if any and ensure accuracy in the consolidated financial reports for all partners and ACF in SAGA software.
Provide support to partners for better financial reporting specially budget forecast tools, reporting and donor compliances.
Review monthly BFUs of all projects and identify the variances between BFU s and SAGA, reconcile the data and identify the gaps.
Timely submission of Budget follow up Reports and make budget holder meetings to discussed and analysis of spending trend, and major variances to be shared timely with management and budget holders also update the PM tools as per actual expenditures.
Ensure grants and legal compliances.
To ensure the availability of funds at bank account of provincial office.
Review project budgets and/or amendments, ensuring compliance with and donor accounting and financial reporting requirements.
Budget utilization to be monitor through regularly (at least monthly) updating the BFUs and sharing with budget holders before scheduled budget holder meetings & monthly coordination meetings.
Funds requests should be timely processed and submitted to capital office on fortnightly basis.
To provide financial information/record as required by auditors during projects audit.
Review contracts negotiations, consultancy agreements, and provide guidance to strengthen budgeting and budget monitoring with the ACF Budget holders team.
To ensure coordination for smooth execution, and completion of projects audit/s.
To directly respond queries of headquarters & donor auditors.
Responsible to ensure organization is in full compliance with mission and donor’s advised policies, also complying with applicable national and international laws and regulations that pertains to such type of organization. Moreover, identifies risks that an organization faces and advises on how to avoid or address them, support mission in building professional standards, accepted practices, and internal standards.
Key Achievements:
• Developed and implemented of a system for ensuring compliance to organization policies and donor guidelines.
• Capacity building of internal staff and partner organization teams on fraud, risk identification, mitigation and reporting.
• Periodic financial review of partners and suggest action plan to improve donor compliances.
• Providing timely help desk support related to donor and partnership contract compliance for colleagues.
• Ensured expenditures are in line with donor-approved budget, analyze discrepancy between budget & actual and put in place corrective measures.
• Capacity building and mentoring of Compliance team of ACF and Partners Staff.
• Monitoring and reporting on supply chain operations to enable teams to efficiently assess the performance and sustainability of current networks.
• Supports the planning, forecasting & resource management efforts of own team by collecting data from diverse sources.
• Collates accurate and timely information and data to enable informed decision making on reporting within individual unit and consequently the greater humanitarian community.
• Demonstrates ability to implement operational warehouse procedures and normative guidance in order to manage ACF warehouse, handle inventory effectively through organizational systems, and ensure loss mitigation.
• Monitor and facilitate compliance of all departments against EU requirements.
• Oversee Co-applicant tracking, adherence with project requirements and timelines, work closely with compliance team to develop and maintain standardized project Co-applicant administrative, monitoring and reporting tracking tools.
• Assist compliance manager in ensuring that project Co-applicant-related administrative processes and procedures are consistently implemented, consistent with overall project approaches, including due diligence and compliance checks, agreements, disbursements, reporting and co-applicants’ capacity-building.
• Evaluate and observe budget consumption & initiating action on major variances noticed.
• Any other task assigned related to Consortium and grant management.
Audit, Compliance and checks
• Ensure compliance with donor policies and manual.
• Coordination with partner to meet the reporting requirements
• Ensure compliance of reporting schedule.
• Following Audit & Compliance SOP
• Ensure the documentation and calculation are complete and correct.
• Ensure the implementation of organizational archiving policy.
• Ensure the observation raised during the last external audit and compliance review are followed up and complied.
• Report any issues raised by the auditors to compliance manager, Senior Compliance Manager.
• Any other task assigned during audit, reviews and checks.
To be an active member of compliance department
• Support compliance manager in implementing the departmental strategy.
• Engage in mentoring and performance management as required.
• Implement policies to the best of your ability.
• Liaise externally to enable achievement of objectives as directed by compliance manager.
Support to compliance manager
• Act as a Focal person for project compliance team and assist compliance manager in partners meeting, reviews and coordination with implementing partners.
• Participate in Coordination meeting with IP staff.
Ensure EU compliance with internal procedures and processes across all departments through regular and systematic reviews.
Regularly review our compliance against the donor and rectify issues immediately.
Monitor compliance with laws, regulations and internal policies.
Ensure that your findings are recorded and followed up with management so that issues can be rectified and report back to business functions on current risk and compliance performance
Highlight or escalate areas of concern.
contribute to robust and effective compliance controls within the organization.
Support investigations as directed by line manager.
Provide timely help desk support related to donor and partnership contract compliance for colleagues.
Provide regular updates to senior management on grant compliance.
Monitor and facilitate compliance of all departments against EU requirements.
Ensure dissemination and understanding of all contracts, amendments and other documents for the project across departments.
Conduct regular reviews of documents to identify risk areas and lead rectification.
Oversee coordination within the department and across other departments.
Manage the compliance team including mentoring, recruitment, trainings, performance management.
Ensure maintenance of departmental administration in soft and hard copies as required.
Liaise externally to enable achievement of objectives.
Bookkeeping and Financial Reporting: I had to ensure that staff (Concern & Partners) adheres to internal controls; make necessary accounting adjustments and keep books of accounts as per standard procedures. Prepare payments, purchase authorizations and other financial transactions to ensure compliance, Make day to day payments, adjustments and Ensure timely Release of payment to vendor.Coordinate internal/external audits, conduct the financial verification and review of IPs.
Compliance Coordination: Coordinate and conduct regular meetings with partners, conduct field visits to partners to perform spot checks, trainings etc. Provide help desk support to partners on compliance. Hold regular meetings with partners to provide feedback on findings from reports.
Treasury: I will coordinate and facilitate field teams in preparation of cash forecasts. Arrange opening/closing of field bank accounts and change in bank signatories. Pay staff dues including monthly salaries and PDMs.
Partner Financial Management: I have to conduct, coordinate, and support in assessment of implementing partners. Review of partner assessment report including Concern (CLOFAT) and Concern Emergency Partner Selection Assessment Tool (CEPSAT). I have Visit the partner offices for financial reviews, monitoring and capacity building intervention of implementing partners. I have to Orient the Partner staff on Concern partner financial monitoring tools and procedures.
Budget preparation and revision: I have Responsible for the coordination with HO finance and programme team and provide technical support for preparation and consolidation of budgets as per guidelines from Dublin/Donor. I have Provide assistance to Programme Manager in review of budgets.
Grants Management: I will coordinate with PM and ACFC to consolidate information for development of initial donor financial reports. I have Conduct preliminary review of these donor reports before submission to PM / ACFC.
To manage all aspects of the logistics function (procurement, administration, transport, security) relating to Sindh programme in line with agreed and accepted Organization logistics practices and procedures.
Implementation of procurement policies and procedures for Organization programme as per the Organization procurement manual.
3. To provide support, guidance and trainings as required to staff in partner organisations in order to develop and improve their systems as part of their Organisation Development.
4. To assist the Logs & Admin Manager in consolidation of systems budgets and regularly monitor the spending patterns and advise strategies accordingly.
To assist the Programme Manager and Logs & Admin Manager in security management related matters
To ensure confidentiality for all financial matters of the Organization.
To Responsible for maintaining efficient accounting / financial management systems, monitor the use of approved budgets.
To supervise financial transactions of money received and money spent within the financial policies.
To Responsible for maintaining (Manual/Computerized) books of accounts on daily basis.
To ensure availability of sufficient funds for Project by requesting funds transfer on timely basis in coordination with the Finance Manager.
To Responsible to carry financial correspondence as and when required and / or requested by the supervisor.
To Preparing bank reconciliation statements on monthly/ periodical basis and ensuring other balance sheet accounts (e.g. staff loans/ staff advances) are kept updated and reconciled.
To Review the bank reconciliations for all bank accounts and investigates any errors or long standing reconciling differences.
To ensure that proper invoices and receipts are supplied to support the payments.
To Filing of monthly and yearly tax return.
To Assist the Finance Manager in project budgeting and periodical budget review and revisions.
To Follow-ups and correspondence with donor for grants and budgets related issues.
To Respond to Finance Manager or Senior Official queries regarding financial matters.
To Assist the Finance Manager in preparation and submission of periodical financial and budget monitoring reports to Donors.
To Checking of opening balances and forecasting of next month expenditure, incorporating the actual expenditure of last month.
To Establish and maintain a system of Internal Audit and Internal Control.
To Ensure proper coding of all vouchers and make necessary amendments in consultation with the budget holders where coding seems inappropriate.
To Make adjustments and settle all accruals and advances made during the month before account closing.
To deduct loan repayments from salaries in accordance with repayment schedules.
Calculate, withhold and deposit tax on staff payroll, purchases and services wherever applicable.
To draw up any documentation required for submission to the Tax authorities.
Other duty assign by Manager Finance/Accounts
Maintain oversight of the programme finances, including income and expenditure, balance sheet and cash flow positions.
Prepare Monthly MPR.
Create and maintain the (AOP) Annual Operating Plan.
Ensure the timely payments of Six TMAs / regional Offices & Head Office.
Prepare weekly, monthly, Quarterly & yearly financial reports
Developing bank reconciliation statement and dealing with banks.
Maintain of cash and bank accounts, and record in Peachtree (Accounting Software).
Checking / review of vouchers and invoices and its proper documentation.
Reviewing invoices received from vendors & ensure that required supporting documents are attached with all invoices and signed by relevant regional managers, officers & sub engineers.
Preparation of income tax return form and their submission in bank.
Ensure the files related to accounts / finance is properly maintained.
Prepare and maintain up to date accounting system, ensuring all transactions are duly recorded.
Ensures compliance with policies, procedures and applicable laws and regulations. Communicates such information to affected management personnel and ensures that corrective action is taken for identified compliance issues.
Investigates and resolves compliance issues or questions received from program team management, team members, and government agencies. Acts as a resource for questions regarding regulatory issues.
Educate and train employees on regulations and industry practices.
Address employee concerns or questions on legal compliance.
Keep abreast of internal standards and business goals.
Participate and project manage Compliance and Company projects as required to ensure continuous improvements for quality systems.
Identify areas for improvement and take corrective action as required.
Recommends and reviews training programs to increase team member awareness and knowledge of applicable compliance policies. Update and disseminate information regarding laws and regulations.