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Key Responsibilities:

Purpose:

To ensure cash, commodity, food, livelihood, and sponsorship program compliance with WV global standards, donor regulations, sector best practices and audit recommendations.

• For establishing control mechanisms within the projects to ensure strict adherence to regulations.
• To work closely with all projects leads to build their capacity in meeting key global standards and audit regulations across their projects.
• To lead on Disaster Management Team (DMT), donor and response reporting across the portfolio, and to develop and standardize Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and reporting/budget templates across programs.
• To lead the design and rollout of digital systems that improve compliance, control and efficiency across the portfolio, and to conduct field monitoring and compliance spot-checks.

Handle Assessment and Risk Management:

• Review WV and donor standards and determine the financial and programmatic risk levels across all cash, commodities, food and livelihood projects under the portfolio.
• Develop a clear long term sustainable strategy for managing the identified risks, in clear compliance with WV global standards and previous audit recommendations.
• Conduct review of proposal package to ensure compliance and consistency from an operational view.
• Support the Area Program Manager in the preparation of any budget proposal or budget redesign.
• Ensure the standardization of processes and SOPs across different areas.
• Lead the design and specification of digital systems and process-improvement initiatives to replace manual, error-prone workflows across programs, producing business case documentation and managing related demand requests through to delivery.
• Conduct field monitoring visits and physical inventory checks to verify on-the-ground compliance across the portfolio.
• Imbed risk management strategies within the process flows and SOPs per grant. Ensure clear control mechanism are in place to adhere to the risk management plan; support the project in the establishment of the SoPs and bring an external eye review.
• Work Closely with Program Manager and Technical Specialist in identifying and setting relevant selection criteria for any upcoming projects.
• Act as a focal point for the Cash and Livelihood portfolio for any external/internal audit mission by leading audit prep spot-checks and ensure projects operate in line with the established control mechanisms and SOPs,
• Monitors the implementation of audit recommendation and process improvements by different functions and ensures they are closed within 90 days.
• Assess the risk level of all upcoming projects that will form part of the portfolio at the project design stage. Participate in the design process identifying and suggesting mechanism of minimizing risk.
• Audit and analyse the portfolio budgets' transactions to ensure accuracy, reliability and completeness.
• Advise Project leads in the budget amendments/redesign process and review final products.
• Ensure all projects are closed out in line with WV global standards. Obtain all necessary sign off before project closure.
• Ensure that all stock (commodities, cards, pins, in kind commodities) are managed and stored in line with global standards and donor regulations.
• Review supporting documents provided by local partners as a means of verification for service delivery or payment issuance.
• In coordination with Area Program Manager and Technical specialist, attend sector meetings and any other meetings with donors or external parties.
• Act as Officer In Charge when needed and required (This imply financial authority and decision - in consultation with the Director of Programs)

Handle Reporting and Documentation:

• Lead on the Disaster Management Team (DMT) reporting and act as the accountable person and main focal point in the Portfolio in terms of DMT reporting.
• Establish a mechanism, which will enable rapid and accurate authentication preparation of monthly, quarterly and yearly internal and external reports.
• Compile reports/information/data from project coordinators and conduct review and deduplication and provide accurate data to feed in the different internal and external reporting templates.
• Establish a clear, chronological and secure hard and soft copy record filing system across the portfolio. Ensure compliance with the filing system across all projects within the portfolio.
• In close coordination with budget holder, ensure adequate financial control mechanisms are adhered to. Lead the budget vs actual review process monthly across all projects. Ensure all costs reconcile. Establish a clear procurement and financial expenditure tracking system at the portfolio level.
• Collect the monthly cash requests from budget holder and ensure their accuracy and reliability
• Lead the reporting on the Grant Health Tracker and ensure the reported items are accurate and reflect the actual progress of the projects.
• Liaise with other project coordinators within the Cash and Livelihood Portfolio and other Portfolios in WV Lebanon in order to create synergies and standard systems across the portfolio project by sharing lessons learned, experiences, observations and challenges.

Handle Staff Management:

• Ensure all the project staff have an up-to-date job description and a performance agreement which are reviewed on a regular basis (at least twice per year);
• Provide leadership to the team by mentoring, coaching, and provision of in-house or external training staff to ensure efficiency and high quality deliverables.
• Establish and maintain a clear communication system with staff which allows for regular: a) progress tracking; b) task assignment; c)problem solving; d) on-the-job capacity building;

Ensure Capacity Building:

Provide capacity building to all portfolio staff to ensure:

• Heightened awareness of all cash, commodities and food global standards.
• Auditing process and regulations.
• Reporting and recording standards.
• Financial accounting, compliance and reconciliation process; memo and notes for the file's preparation
• Budget modelling and review

Perform other duties as required:

• Attend and participate in WVL's spiritual nurture and other organizational events
• Responsible of own security and actively contribute to a positive security culture
• Report CP incidents as per the safeguarding policy guidelines.
• Abide by the security policies and procedures and report any incidents or breaches to line manager and / or security manager
• Perform other duties as assigned by Line Manager

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of 4 years of similar work experience in project/programme financial and compliance control, preferably in cash, commodities and food sectors.
• Experience in auditing grants (risk-based audit)
• Chartered accountant status;
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance Management, Economics, Software Development or similar.
• Advanced computer literacy, especially in Microsoft Office and Excel, and a strong track record of driving process-improvement or digitization initiatives;
• Work experience in multi-functional teams of different cultural backgrounds
• Experience in auditing grants.

As a Christian organisation, World Vision is founded on the biblical principles that women and men, girls and boys are created in the image of God, and of Jesus' love for all people without discrimination. This means that we recognise and affirm the equal worth, dignity and rights of women, men, girls and boys with and without disability and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status

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