Manager, Grants Finance and Compliance - Bilingual (Spanish/English) - Talent Pool
Plan Canada
- Toronto, ON Ottawa, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Prepare, reconcile and analyze monthly consolidated reporting with financial inputs from multiple sources and systems.
- Design financial report templates and review and validate financial reports with Program Managers, ensuring alignment with narrative reports and variance analysis.
- Maintain oversight of financial health of assigned projects, developing strategies to maximize efficiency and minimize financial and compliance risk.
- Ability to forecast project expenditure for quarterly forecasting process by considering past and present project trajectory.
- Prepare, reconcile, and analyze monthly consolidated reporting with financial inputs from multiple sources and systems.
- Manage the review of donor agreements and contracts with the program team and the communication of donor requirements to the team (in Canada and Country Offices).
- Work closely with Country Offices to oversee the coordination of donor audits, ensuring all project expenditures and contracts are compliant with terms and conditions of donor agreements.
- Develop strong working relationships with Plan International Canada and with Plan International Country Offices, providing training and ongoing support as required.
- Fluency in oral and written English and Spanish is required
- College or university degree and an accounting professional accreditation are considered an asset (MBA, CA, CGA, CMA, CFA and/or CPA).
- Proven experience in project financial management, including financial reporting and analysis, developing costing models/budgets at the project design stage and risk assessment and mitigation for $5M+ proposals.
- Demonstrated experience working with a wide variety of international development funding agencies, such as The Global Fund, Global Affairs Canada (including International Humanitarian Assistance), multilateral agencies and charitable organizations/foundations.
- Experience in donor financial audits and hands on experience reviewing complex contracts and agreements.
- Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between the programmatic, operational and financial components of project design.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build productive working relationships within and between departments to produce common deliverables.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite with advanced proficiency in Excel.
- Ability to establish priorities and ensure high quality deliverables in a time-sensitive environment with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- A passion for mission driven work and personal values aligned with those of Plan International Canada's values.