Project Budget Specialist - NGO

This position will report to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis.

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

Project Budgeting & Forecasting

- Prepare final project budgets for all organisation projects in the organisation template based on inputs from and in collaboration with client development team members

- Own the project budget template and process and make improvements on an ongoing basis

- Develop and populate a database to record typical costs in locations where we have run projects and for which we have submitted budgets, to facilitate accurate and efficient budget preparation

- Liaise with the FP&A Lead who will review each project budget

- Convert approved budgets to client templates as and when needed

- Prepare quarterly budget estimates to complete for each project based on inputs from and in collaboration with client development team members

- Provide global and specific training to project teams on the high level elements of budget preparation

Reporting & Analysis

Project level:

- Contribute to the monthly process of updating the budget monitors (i.e. budget vs. actual reports)

- Prepare project-level financial reports for the internal management use of organisation project teams and contractual obligations for external clients Prepare monthly staff utilization reports

Global:

- Assist in the preparation of standardized monthly reports for donors in order to keep them updated on organisation financials

- Prepare analysis and commentary on monthly functional dashboards

- Assist in the preparation of ad hoc global reports for grant proposals

- Contribute to the preparation of quarterly Finance Committee Documents Other

- Support other global financial and related tasks as and when required