DEPUTY FINANCE AND COMPLIANCE MANAGER

• *Location:**

Maiduguri, Nigeria • *Position Status:**

Full-time, Regular • *About Mercy Corps**

Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible. In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within. Now, and for the future.

• *Department Summary**

The Mercy Corps Finance Department is responsible for all financial functions in Nigeria, including accounting, payments and banking, payroll, budgeting, financial reporting, and grant financial management and compliance. The Mercy Corps Finance

Department ensures compliance with donor regulations as well as Mercy Corps’ internal policies and procedures. In its role as a support to the Program Department, the Finance Department provides timely reports and assistance to the Country Director and the Program team to ensure that financial resources are used efficiently and effectively. • *General Position Summary**

Working in the Finance Department under the direction of the Deputy Director, Finance and Compliance, the Deputy Finance and Compliance Manager will support the Country Office in the reporting of financial information, review and analyze records, reports, financial statements and management practices to ensure adequate internal controls are in place to mitigate risks in compliance with laws, regulations, donor requirements and Mercy Corps policies and procedures. The Deputy Finance & Compliance Manager is responsible for managing the programmatic, financial and operational aspects of sub-awards issued under all programs across the Mercy Corps Maiduguri office. Working with an increasingly wide and diverse set of local and international partners at all levels of public, private, and civil society, there is a need to strengthen programmatic and financial support to partners to enable more robust growth and development of sub-grantees. Compliance with the donor regulations and Mercy Corps internal policies and procedures is a critical part of the capacity building process and essential to enable sub-grantees to develop strong systems that will help in the delivery of programmatic interventions

• *Essential Job Responsibilities** • *FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING MANAGEMENT** • Perform financial reviews of purchase requests, purchase orders, and payment requests to ensure compliance with MC policies and procedures and donors’ requirements. • Perform compliance reviews of processes, including procurement, logistics, stock management, HR & Admin, and coordinate with the relevant departments to correct and improve as needed. • Provide advice, training, and consultation on compliance with MC policies and procedures as well as donor compliance requirements. • Ensure grant files are maintained and up to date in accordance with Mercy Corps’ minimum program requirements. • *Accounting** • Support the Finance and Compliance Director in month-end and year-end HQ required reports, quarterly balance sheet reconciliation reports, fiscal year-end reports, statutory deductions reports, and other taxable benefits reports. • Assist in posting the transactions in the accounting system and reviewed for any necessary corrections. • Prepare timesheet allocations for all international and national staff and review and post timesheet allocations in the accounting system. • Prepare/review necessary reclassification entries and other accounts’ adjustments; • *PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT & REPORTING** • Prepare and update monthly grant spending reports (Budget vs. Actuals, BvAs) for the Country Office, including administrative/operational projections; work with program managers to ensure program projections are updated; and, together with the relevant program managers and staff members, review BvAs and projections, to ensure program implementation is on time, target and budget • Assist in the preparation of financial reports, including budget projections of assigned programs. • *SUB-GRANTS & COMPLIANCE** • Support maintenance of a filing system for sub-grants and related documents as required by policies and regulations of Mercy Corps. • Conduct the pre-award assessment process as well as the contracting and closeout processes; ensure that all steps are properly documented in accordance with Mercy Corps’ minimum program requirements. • Ensure subgrantee payments are on time, and subgrant financial reports are properly reconciled. • Review subgrantee financial reports, manage and assist in subgrantee site audits, and follow up on subgrant compliance issues. Ensure subgrantee information is entered and updated in the accounting system on a regular basis. • Provide training an