Exciting Career Opportunity at Mott MacDonald
POSITION: Regional Finance Officer – The Fleming Fund
The Fleming Fund is a 10-year, large-scale (+£235 million) and sophisticated fund management scheme that operates in up to 25 low- and middle-income countries and will run until 2026. The Regional Finance Officer will report to the Regional Coordinator – West Africa and work closely with the UK Finance Manager on the financial aspects of the Fleming Fund Grants Programme in the region, including conducting grant application financial reviews, overseeing financial monitoring and spot checks on grants, and providing accurate financial forecasts and financial reports. This includes monitoring grantees’ financial expenditures, overseeing the application of financial controls in grantee payment processing, and substantiating grant costs.
The Regional Finance Officer is a member of the regional hub team that supports the entire grant management process. They will work with the Regional Project Manager and Regional Coordinator to manage, monitor, forecast, and report on all aspects of the Fleming Fund Grants Programme’s financial position in the region. The role will help to maintain a uniform strategy and a high degree of financial compliance throughout the region. In order to accomplish this, the Regional Financial Officer will collaborate closely with the rest of the regional team and the UK Finance Manager.
Key Responsibilities include:
Grant Management
- Reviewing grant applications for quality and risk, and recommending funding based on applicant financial reports.
- Monitoring and evaluating grantee financial reports, as well as reconciling grantee expenditure to substantiate appropriate costs claimed in accordance with grants, including regular travel to conduct spot checks on hard copy receipts and grantee financial reports.
- Assisting the WA Regional Coordinator in monitoring and reviewing grant payments to ensure they are valid and ready for approval.
- Assisting the UK Finance Manager in preparing reconciliations between grant management software (MatsSoft) and grant disbursements recorded in the Project and Group accounting systems.
- Preparing regional grant forecasting numbers as requested by the UK Finance Manager.
Programme Accounting
- Responding to financial audits of the programme (both internal and external).
- Providing the programme management team with timely, accurate, and appropriate information, as well as preparing local financial returns on time and with integrity.
- Assisting the Regional Project Manager and the local Mott MacDonald Limited Ghana financial team as needed.
Financial Management
- Working closely with the Regional Coordinator and UK Finance Manager to implement appropriate and sound internal controls to protect program and company assets, as well as maintaining sound financial systems and policies under GAAP, MML policies (including fraud), local policies, client requirements, and local laws.
- Overseeing the timely completion of invoices and expense trackers for the Regional Hub.
- Assist EY with grantee audits as needed.
- Staying up to date on “best practices” in fund administration and recommending improvements to program systems and procedures for applications, appraisals, and fund management processes.
Special partnerships and contacts.
Establishing and sustaining positive working relationships with the UK Finance Manager, Regional Hub employees, and grantees.
Note: This job description matches the post’s current requirements. As duties and responsibilities evolve and develop, the job description will be evaluated and amended in cooperation with the postholder.
Education:
Candidate Specifications:
- Higher education and accounting qualifications are essential.
- Training: Applicants must mention any relevant training or professional development.
Experience:
- Experience executing grant/fund management programs in low- and middle-income countries, as well as handling complex program finances.
- Extensive experience monitoring and reporting grant expenditure, including sampling, validation, and compliance checks, as well as creating finance processes, rules, and templates for internal controls and fraud prevention.
- Understanding the importance of money, ethics, and transparency
- Desirable: Experience with due diligence, financial assurance, and/or fiduciary risk assessments
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable ability to work accurately and within deadlines
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- A good communicator with great relationship-building skills, trustworthy, and a team player.
- Proactively raise issues with management and fix identified difficulties.
- Capable of making occasional trips to overseas offices and places.
- Evidence of advanced Excel skills.
- Proactively raise issues with management and fix identified difficulties.
- Able to travel often to Fleming Fund recipients in the region.
- Desirable: Written and spoken French would be regarded as a benefit.
Job Profile:
Drug-resistant diseases threaten global health. Increasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria reduces treatment efficacy. Antimicrobial-resistant diseases may kill 10 million people annually by 2050.[1] The Fleming Fund is part of the UK government’s global leadership on this problem. Phase 2 of this initiative extends from 2023 until early 2026.
The Fleming Fund seeks to close antibiotic resistance surveillance gaps in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. These regions are projected to have the most antibiotic-resistant illnesses. British political action against the problem led to the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance.[2] This is the global multi-stakeholder AMR mitigation roadmap.
The Fleming Fund Grants Programme supports the Global Action Plan and the Global AMR Surveillance System. Fleming Fund Grants programmes aim to:
- Laboratory infrastructure improvement
- Human resource strengthening and labor reforms
- Surveillance system strengthening
- Better coordination between human and animal surveillance systems.
- Laying the groundwork for AMR surveillance data utilization
- Promoting appropriate use of antibiotics in humans, animals, and crops
- Provide value for money in grant funding.
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) get technical help, grant money, and other resources from the Fleming Fund Grants Programme to monitor and use antibiotics. Specific African and Asian countries and areas use several funding sources. Most funding are used to implement countries’ National Action Plans for AMR, ensuring ownership, stakeholder alignment, and sustainability. The Fleming Fund’s One Health initiative encourages cross-sectoral monitoring of resistant organisms and their causes. Additional Fleming Fellowship Scheme money supports professional advancement, awareness, and advocacy. Regional Grants funds enhanced monitoring and data utilization, operational research, online learning, and strategic investments with other funders.
About Mott MacDonald:
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has engaged Mott MacDonald as the Fleming Fund Grants Programme’s Management Agent. The Fleming Fund is in its seventh year of implementation and has recently reached Phase II of the project. We have a headquarters in London, UK, and four regional hubs in Accra, Ghana; Kampala, Uganda; Delhi, India; and Bangkok, Thailand. Applicants will join a multidisciplinary team of technical, grant, and program management specialists.
Mott MacDonald is a multinational engineering and development company dedicated to improve people’s lives by designing and implementing specialized development solutions.
The Fleming Fund project team is part of the International Development Services Unit, which works in developing countries to reduce poverty, improve governance, and increase access, capacity, and resilience in healthcare, education, water, sanitation, transportation, infrastructure, and renewable energy – all while protecting the environment and promoting human rights and gender equity.
As an employee-owned firm, Mott MacDonald has the opportunity and independence to explore innovative approaches to improve human well-being and support social and economic development through connected thinking.
How to Apply for this Career Opportunity at Mott MacDonald
Closing Date: November 12, 2024
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