Finance and Accounting
• Facilitate Principal Advisor in examining expenditures, fund requests/transfers, invoice processing, and cash and bank transfers against program budget in a timely manner and according to GIZ standards.
• Examine and supervise program cash and bank book/ account, finances, advances, and receivables in accordance with O&R while presenting monthly feedback.
• Successfully process and deliver tax documents and services, procurement, and contracts payments to vendors/contractors and CO in accordance with national law.
Administration, Logistics and IT
• Function in close collaboration with Country Office to streamline and manage administrative, logistics, and inventory functions of project activities while ensuring effective functioning of all offices.
• Assure proper fleet management of official vehicles as well as travel management of all national and international staff, while collecting monthly vehicle data and maintaining logbooks
• Actively liaise with diplomatic enclave authorities and focal person for entry passes of vendors, suppliers, and visitors, and provision of access cards.
Procurement and Contracts
• Examine quality of all procurement and contract related documents in accordance with GIZ rules and regulations through liaison with the officer
• Deliver excellent first-rate support to the management by offering implementation-oriented solutions to examine and resolve all procurement and contracts issues.
• Formulate and deliver quality assurance of financial reports by partners while following GIZ standards, procurement procedures, and GIZ rules and regulations.
Supervising and Monitoring
• Train and supervise staff of administration and finance, procurement, logistics, and support staff in all project offices while facilitating implementation of administration, financial management, procurement, contract and logistical processes and procedures of the program in accordance with GIZ O&R.

• Helped management in creating monthly finance report, voucher thereof, and assigned schedules, revising monthly finance report, and examining data entry for Sun System.
• Formulated and revised financial, re-class, and grant reports as well as deducted tax and filing of periodic tax reports with FBR to sustain expenses in line with donors, SC, and IAS/GAAP requirements.
• Allocated budget codes of bank payment vouchers, calculated staff quarterly severance calculation and delivered information to the country office.
• Collected utility bills of health outlets, retained bank and cash payment vouchers, cash book, and cash flow management for programs, and revised bank and cash payment vouchers
• Organized over and under-spending to the management for prudent utilization of funds and facilitated Project Managers and Internal / External Auditors in the preparation of budgets.

Donor Compliance and Grant Management Systems
• Built synergies with implementing partners to design and implement ActionAid process for grant management, equitable cost recovery, grants close out, and sub-grant management.
• Coordinated with budget holders and finance team to assess grant budgets and expenditures and revise budget realignment and grant request while ensuring compliance with budgets and donor requirements.
• Actively contributed in grant opening, mid-term review, and closure meetings while delivering support to Country Directors to hold budget holders for deviations from the grant contracts.
• Played an integral role in assessing donor compliance requirements while informing relevant staffs of all departments of donor requirements.
• Analyzed donor eligibility of expenditures, recognized compliance requirements, and maintained reporting tracking system through collaboration with Partnership Development Manager.
Grant Proposals
• Ensured that all proposals, contracts, and amendments with donors follow internal procedures.
• Devised a checklist system to assess overhead, share program costs, and circulate donor and ActionAid standards to relevant personnel at the beginning of the process.
Training and Development
• Delivered information and training to budget holders, finance officers, and field staff in order to understand donor guidelines, compliance issues, and ActionAid grant management procedures.
• Steered regular visits to field offices and project sites and directed internal audits of grants processes and protocols to advise Budget Holders on compliance levels in the field bases.
Audit
• Helped Projects Manager/Coordinators in responding to internal audit requirements and audited all budgets, grants, and funds as per donor rules and regulations.

Strategic and Operational Financial Management
• Designed and executed corporate and regional finance strategy within the country while ensuring effective financial and asset management within the country.
• Defined, understood, and operated finance procedures while following corporate and regional standards throughout the country.
• Guaranteed exact functioning and supervision of PeopleSoft financial systems (QuickBooks), including maintaining completeness and integrity of data in the system.
• Produced and authorized reports to meet needs of programme managers within the country, while meeting requirements for reporting set by the donor’s & HQ and ensuring timeliness and accuracy.
• Facilitated CD and other programme staff in creating programme and project budgets and financial projections/forecasts for RI on a regular basis for effective monitoring and review.
Team Management
• Held the credit for managing performance of all staff reporting while ensuring assessment, development, and performance management against objectives and organizationally agreed competencies.
• Played an integral role as a Finance Officers and spearheaded finance staff in direct line management to work in jobs in the project offices within the country.
Administrative Support to Managers
• Facilitated operational managers, country director, programme/project coordinators/managers and officers in establishing and executing country strategy.
• Identified and resolved all matters of finance, such as budget preparation, monitoring, control, and reporting while meeting good financial standards.
Donor Finance Management
• Coordinated with funding team to steer development of proposals to donors and creation of financial reports to donors according to set deadlines.
• Devised audit trail and donor contract management from primary documentation to the accounting system for accurate and rapid donor reporting and general record keeping.