IITA recruiting Financial Management Specialist
Financial Management Specialist
(Ref: DDG-P4D/TAAT/PMU/FMS/04/18)
Background: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the
internationally recruited position of Financial Management Specialist.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates
agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and
natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve
livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource
integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.
Please visit http://www.iita.org/ for more information on IITA.
The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is a program initiated by the African
Development Bank (AfDB) as part of its Feed Africa Initiative. The main objective of the program is to
improve the business of agriculture across Africa by raising agricultural productivity, mitigating risks and
promoting diversification and processing in 18 agricultural value chains within 8 Priority Intervention
Areas. The program will be implemented by IITA in close collaboration with other CGIAR Centers,
FARA, AGRA, national agricultural research and extension systems and private sector partners. It will
involve close partnership between the AfDB and other developmental partners such as the World Bank,
BMGF, USAID and others. This position shall be part of the Program Management Unit (PMU) team.
The PMU will oversee day-to-day implementation of project fiduciary and administrative activities;
organize the transfer of project resources to the institutions leading the commodity value chains;
coordinate the compilation and review of reports from value chains and enablers for submission to the
Bank; and elaborate/implement administrative and financial management guidelines/template to be used
across.
Position Responsibilities
The tasks of the Financial Management Specialist will include:
Main Responsibility:
To lead in all areas of financial management with the goal of ensuring that adequate fiduciary safeguards
are maintained to assure accurate, reliable and timely financial reporting for the TAAT Program. The
Financial Management Specialist (FMS) will be the head of financial management and shall have the
overall responsibility for implementing and managing the agreed program FM arrangements as well as
supervising all accounts staff of the PMU.
Specific Duties and responsibilities:
• Overall lead for the program in the areas of budgeting, accounting, implementing internal controls,
financial reporting and treasury management, and ensuring compliance with approved procedures.
• Lead the budget preparation process and present the program budget to the Program Steering
Committee (PSC) and IITA.
• Manage budget execution, and controlling expenditure, to ensure that activities executed are in line
with the approved budget and within the budgeted expenditures.
• Monitor budget execution and progress, including input to progress reporting for the program.
• Ultimate responsibility for the preparation of quarterly interim unaudited financial reports, as well as
the annual program financial statements.
• Lead the development and regular update of the Program Financial Procedures Manual (PFPM) to
standardize and streamline financial management practices within the programme.
Click here to read more and apply
http://www.iita.org/about/jobs/
(Ref: DDG-P4D/TAAT/PMU/FMS/04/18)
Background: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) invites applications for the
internationally recruited position of Financial Management Specialist.
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a not-for-profit institution that generates
agricultural innovations to meet Africa’s most pressing challenges of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and
natural resource degradation. Working with various partners across sub-Saharan Africa, we improve
livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, increase employment, and preserve natural resource
integrity. IITA is a member of CGIAR, a global agriculture research partnership for a food secure future.
Please visit http://www.iita.org/ for more information on IITA.
The Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is a program initiated by the African
Development Bank (AfDB) as part of its Feed Africa Initiative. The main objective of the program is to
improve the business of agriculture across Africa by raising agricultural productivity, mitigating risks and
promoting diversification and processing in 18 agricultural value chains within 8 Priority Intervention
Areas. The program will be implemented by IITA in close collaboration with other CGIAR Centers,
FARA, AGRA, national agricultural research and extension systems and private sector partners. It will
involve close partnership between the AfDB and other developmental partners such as the World Bank,
BMGF, USAID and others. This position shall be part of the Program Management Unit (PMU) team.
The PMU will oversee day-to-day implementation of project fiduciary and administrative activities;
organize the transfer of project resources to the institutions leading the commodity value chains;
coordinate the compilation and review of reports from value chains and enablers for submission to the
Bank; and elaborate/implement administrative and financial management guidelines/template to be used
across.
Position Responsibilities
The tasks of the Financial Management Specialist will include:
Main Responsibility:
To lead in all areas of financial management with the goal of ensuring that adequate fiduciary safeguards
are maintained to assure accurate, reliable and timely financial reporting for the TAAT Program. The
Financial Management Specialist (FMS) will be the head of financial management and shall have the
overall responsibility for implementing and managing the agreed program FM arrangements as well as
supervising all accounts staff of the PMU.
Specific Duties and responsibilities:
• Overall lead for the program in the areas of budgeting, accounting, implementing internal controls,
financial reporting and treasury management, and ensuring compliance with approved procedures.
• Lead the budget preparation process and present the program budget to the Program Steering
Committee (PSC) and IITA.
• Manage budget execution, and controlling expenditure, to ensure that activities executed are in line
with the approved budget and within the budgeted expenditures.
• Monitor budget execution and progress, including input to progress reporting for the program.
• Ultimate responsibility for the preparation of quarterly interim unaudited financial reports, as well as
the annual program financial statements.
• Lead the development and regular update of the Program Financial Procedures Manual (PFPM) to
standardize and streamline financial management practices within the programme.
Click here to read more and apply
http://www.iita.org/about/jobs/
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