RUKKAYA BAYERO

1. Lead and develop annual project budget and monitor spend monthly to ensure activities are implemented within budget.

2. Prepare monthly burn rate and management account for management decision making.

3. Submit timely and complete reports to the Finance Director, as per agreed deadlines and in line with established reporting requirements.

4. Provide support to Finance Management in the forecasting, monitoring and reporting of the operating and capital budgets and financials.

5. Review and analyze grant expense and provide explanation for variances to alert management and donor.

6. Coordinate the activities of subordinates and finance staff at the regional offices by reviewing their postings regularly and also mentor them on the donor and organisation's policy.

7. Payroll management and prompt remittance of all statutory deductions (PAYE, NFH, ECA, PENSION etc.) to relevant agencies.

8. Responsible for quality and timely accounting e.g. monthly closing process, cash procedures, bank accounts, electronic data entry, receipts, and supporting documents.

9. Monitoring the procurement and disbursement procedure to ensure value for money

10. Evaluate Projects Financial Risks and update Risk Registers with possible mitigating measures.

11. Provide training and ongoing support to relevant stakeholders including project team members, field offices and partners on understanding donor financial rules and ensuring compliance requirements are understood and adhered to at all levels. Manage relationship with donors and reviewers both internal and external.

• Collaborated with team leaders to define standards, policies and procedures to meet company revenue goals.
• Established and enforced controls on revenue and expenses to protect company assets.
• Identified partnership opportunities and established favorable business connections.
• Prepared monthly reconciliation of bank accounts and took corrective actions on deviations.

1. Ensure a draft Financial Report is prepared and sent to my supervisor as directed.

2. Ensure consultant/vendor invoices are paid promptly in line with SFH policy

3. Preparation of bank reconciliation statements for GFM project on SAP, to be completed and submitted

4. Monthly review of GFM trial balances (or analysis of account balances), results of review to be submitted to GFM project Director 3 days after period closure of every month

5. Oversee the Administration and Operational Units of GFM Field officers

6. Preparation of Monthly burn rate and Management Report

• Collaborated with team leaders to define standards, policies and procedures to meet company revenue goals.

Brought in to ensure proper maintenance of accounting records, timely financial reporting, and accurate bank reconciliation to ensure adequate financial control.

Responsibilities

· Preparation of bank reconciliation for Kaduna and Katsina territories

· Monthly Bank reconciliation

· Developing, controlling, implementing and monitoring the project’s accounts.

· Monitoring the procurement and disbursement procedure for all supplies

· Remittance of WHT for vendors and consultants

· Reconciliation of travel advance and check on aging report

· Posting and processing of all payment on SAP

· Raising of journals

· Upload of training and campaign participant payment on bank Platform

· Processing and analyzing travel request and retirement

· Monitoring of budget.

· Manage regular accounting records.

· Developing, controlling, implementing and monitoring the project’s accounts.

· Monitoring the procurement and disbursement procedure to ensure value for money.

· Carry out regular inventory management and safeguard (Physical investigation)

· Maintain progress report of the project.

· Bank reconciliation

· Prepare the monthly Burn Rate Report for Management decisions.

• Process campaign personnel payment.

• Ensure completeness and accuracy of payment.

• Monitor and track expenses against budget.

• Ensure proper filling of document

• Bank reconciliation.

• Coordinated the verification of personnel bank details and provided oversight towards their payment.

• Provided guidance and oversight towards timely payment of all campaign personnel.

• Prepared expense liquidation report to Donor

· Reporting the accounting information to the Donor in line with the required format

· Preparation and review of Advances and Retirement for staff.

Assist in budget preparation and implementation

I was a part of the team able to reconcile the balances between two accounting packages (Quick books and SAP) for Global Fund Malaria project (which has a Budget Portfolio of over $177Million), Coordinate companies budgeting process, preparation of cash flow, Managing all Accounts.

Responsibilities

· Manage regular accounting records.

· Developing, Controlling, implementing and monitoring the project’s accounts.

· Monitoring the procurement and disbursement procedure to ensure value for money.

· Ensure that expenses incurred is in line with the policy and mandate of the donor

· Carry out regular inventory management and safeguard (Physical investigation)

· Maintain progress report of the project.

· Assist in the preparation of the consolidated Bi-Annual Progress Update Disbursement Request Report to be submitted to Global fund

· Assist in the timely Preparation of Annual Forecast and Disbursement Request Report.

· Carry out Budget Realignment, identified saving areas and areas where the fund can be channeled which must be duly approved by the Global Fund.

· Prepare the monthly Burn Rate Report for Management decisions.

· Review all Sub-Recipients Quarterly Report, determined the expected fund to be disbursed and ensure prompt disbursement to them.

· Carry out spot checks on Sub-Recipients to ensure strict adherence to donor requirement.

· Ensure prompt remittances of all statutory deductions to relevant agencies.

· Develop policies and procedures for fiscal management.

· Monthly reconciliation of bank statement on SAP.

· Reporting of accounting information

· Review supporting documents to ensure they are complete before payment is made.

· Stepping down of funds to various territorial offices.

· Monthly review of postings from the territorial offices to ensure completeness.

· Assist in the monthly preparation of burn rate for management review.

· Carrying out regular inventory management and safeguard.

· Ensure project documents are kept and filed accordingly.

· Assist in the preparation of schedules for auditors.

· Responsible for provision of supporting documents for auditor’s review.

· Preparation of payment vouchers

· Posting of completed transactions into vote book

· Preparation of staff advances

· Review and compilation of staff advances