Finance, Grants and Compliance Manager – Faith and Community Initiative (FCI)

We are seeking a Finance, Grants and Compliance Manager to oversee financial management, grants compliance, subaward administration, partner financial capacity strengthening, and financial performance for World Vision Tanzania’s Faith and Community Initiative (FCI). The role will ensure programme resources are managed efficiently and in accordance with donor requirements, World Vision policies, and Tanzanian regulations while supporting cost efficiency, accountability, sustainability, and the progressive transition of programme activities to locally owned systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the preparation, management, monitoring, and periodic revision of the FCI Tanzania country budget.
• Prepare phased budgets, annual spending plans, cash-flow forecasts, pipeline analyses, and budget-versus-actual reports.
• Align financial planning with programme strategies, technical priorities, work plans, partner implementation plans, and donor requirements.
• Establish mechanisms for monitoring the FCI 80/20 efficiency commitment.
• Track resources reaching frontline health workers, hubs, spokes, faith-based facilities, and community service-delivery platforms.
• Develop cost-efficiency and value-for-money analyses, including unit costs for major programme interventions.
• Review expenditures, general-ledger coding, journal entries, reconciliations, advances, partner liquidations, and supporting documentation.
• Ensure programme costs are allowable, allocable, reasonable, properly authorized, correctly coded, and adequately documented.
• Prepare accurate monthly, quarterly, annual, and donor financial reports.
• Monitor burn rates, budget variances, expenditure trends, commitments, obligations, and pipeline forecasts.
• Manage country cash flow and programme funds requests.
• Manage financial flows to consortium members, faith-based organizations, community organizations, and other implementing partners.
• Monitor partner expenditures, advances, reconciliations, budget balances, and financial performance.
• Establish appropriate financial arrangements for field implementation, training, travel, supportive supervision, and frontline workforce support.
• Lead financial close-out planning, including accruals, obligations, partner close-out, advance clearance, asset disposition, and final reporting.
• Ensure compliance with applicable U.S. Government/GHSD requirements, including relevant provisions of 2 CFR 200.
• Ensure compliance with award terms, World Vision policies, Tanzanian laws, and statutory requirements.
• Establish and maintain strong internal financial and compliance controls.
• Maintain the country finance and compliance risk register.
• Maintain compliance trackers, advance-aging schedules, audit-action plans, questioned-cost logs, and corrective-action trackers.
• Conduct risk-based financial and compliance monitoring of partners and implementation locations.
• Support internal, donor, external, and statutory audits.
• Ensure financial, procurement, contract, subaward, and payment records remain audit-ready.
• Lead follow-up and resolution of audit findings, compliance findings, and questioned costs.
• Support investigations and corrective actions involving suspected misuse of resources or non-compliance.
• Support donor financial reviews, Inspector General reviews, compliance assessments, and site visits.
• Strengthen staff and partner understanding of fraud prevention, anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, whistleblowing, safeguarding-related financial controls, and ethical financial management.
• Coordinate country-level sub-grant management from partner due diligence and pre-award assessments through closeout.
• Conduct subrecipient risk assessments and support subaward setup, budget reviews, agreements, and start-up orientation.
• Review partner budgets, advance requests, liquidation reports, invoices, payroll documentation, procurement files, and financial reports.
• Develop and implement risk-based financial monitoring plans for CHAs, FBOs, and other local partners.
• Provide hands-on coaching and technical assistance to partners on budgeting, financial reporting, internal controls, procurement, payroll documentation, donor compliance, and audit readiness.
• Coordinate subrecipient closeout, including final reconciliations, advance liquidation, questioned-cost resolution, asset disposition, and final reporting.
• Analyse financial performance, burn rates, budget utilisation, expenditure trends, unit costs, and cost drivers.
• Provide financial recommendations to programme leadership for corrective action and resource optimisation.
• Integrate financial and programme performance information with the Chief of Party, Technical Director, and MEL Manager.
• Provide financial modelling to support Government, CHA/FBO, and local-partner ownership and domestic financing.
• Estimate recurrent costs, financing gaps, affordability, and resource requirements for sustaining FCI-supported services and systems.
• Support development and implementation of the programme's financial sustainability and transition strategy.
• Assess the financial-management and grants-compliance capacity of local implementing partners.
• Develop partner capacity-strengthening plans, tools, templates, and monitoring mechanisms.
• Support partners with limited U.S. Government funding experience in meeting donor and World Vision standards.
• Coordinate financial planning with procurement, HR, operations, MEL, technical teams, and global finance and compliance teams.
• Maintain accurate financial records, supporting documentation, grant files, trackers, and audit evidence using World Vision systems.
• Provide finance and compliance input into work plans, budget revisions, donor reports, management reviews, sustainability planning, and grant closeout.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 6–8 years of progressive experience in financial management, grants compliance, and subaward oversight for donor-funded programmes.
• Experience with U.S. Government-funded programmes is preferred.
• Practical knowledge of U.S. Government/GHSD award requirements and relevant provisions of 2 CFR 200.
• Strong understanding of cost allowability, allocability, reasonableness, and supporting-documentation requirements.
• Experience with procurement compliance, internal controls, subrecipient monitoring, audit readiness, and grant closeout.
• Experience managing grants and subawards.
• Experience supporting subrecipient closeout, including final reporting, advance reconciliation, questioned costs, asset disposition, and audit documentation.
• Experience coaching local partners and strengthening their financial-management and compliance capacity.
• Experience with World Vision or similar international NGO financial policies and donor-funded programme operations is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with accounting software and ERP systems.
• Strong knowledge of budgeting, general ledger review, account coding, expenditure tracking, reconciliations, advances, cash management, and financial reporting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Familiarity with donor financial-reporting tools, grant trackers, partner-monitoring templates, and document-management platforms.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, fraud prevention, anti-corruption, and financial risk management.
• Experience supporting financial and compliance audits.
• Experience with faith-based organizations is preferred.
• Experience in fragile or conflict-affected contexts is preferred.
• Master’s degree is an advantage.
• CPA, ACCA, CIA, CFE, or equivalent professional certification is preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Proficiency in relevant national/local language(s) is strongly preferred.
• Strong organizational awareness and resource-management skills.
• Strong coaching and staff-development capabilities.
• Strong knowledge-management skills.
• Spiritual maturity and a biblical worldview.
• Ability to articulate and model World Vision's Christian identity and mission.