Benedict Boniface

• Lead the Finance team in both Tanzania and Mozambique in managing and monitoring the finances of the country programs, establish and monitor a system of checks and balances to ensure the program's financial stability and viability within the annual operating budget
• Prepare and update sub-grantee/partner contracts and budgets
• Prepare the activity budgets for projects
• Build the capacity of partners in cash management, accounting recording, and financial reports as well as build the capacities of program managers in budget management and best practices to maintain a healthy financial status
• Review/update SFCG Tanzania procedures, ensuring that they comply with SFCG policies and donors' as well as Tanzania legislation
• Monitor funds, ensure that up to date records of expenditures are kept and that they comply with budget allocations and donor requirements
• Provide logistical and administrative support and assistance to the Finance Administrative Manager for various activities, including organization of meetings, contracts for partners, and others
• Prepare of various payments voucher including the payroll voucher on the month-to-month basis
• Receive, check of Sub-grantee/partner financial reports and associated documentation- ensuring they are in line with SFCG and donor guidelines
• Visit sub-grantees/partners to support with reporting and helping sub-grantees/partners to build their capacity in the areas of financial management
• Analyze sub-grantee/partner financial reports and communication with Program and Finance Managers about progress
• Liaise with Program and Finance Teams around sub-grantee/partner financial activity and collaborate with them around common partner support activities
• Participate in the development of procedures for managing the financial aspects of sub-grantee/partner relationships
• In collaboration with Finance Manager, develop guidelines, tools, presentations, and templates to support sub-grantees/partners achieve quality financial reporting
• Support before, during and after audit visits - collating evidence for auditors, especially around sub-grantee/partner expenditure
• Responsible for registering and filing daily all transactions in chronological order and submitting an electronically copy, daily together with complete support documents to the Finance Manager
• Responsible for paying all vendors or service providers in accordance with the payment terms or immediately after goods delivered or service rendered.
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of current and emerging compliance regulations.
• Responded to employee inquiries regarding compliance regulations and procedures.

Contributions

• Finance Management Support
• Collaborate to maintain compliance, confidentiality, and standards of financial management records, reporting, paper and electronic filing systems.
• Contribute to data collection, preparation, and presentation of statements, reports, and records.
• Contribute to maintenance, monitoring, and ensuring the integrity of finance data including but not limited to general ledgers, financial reports, and payroll register
• Participate In tracking and monitoring banking transactions, reconciliations, payroll, procurements, payments, etc

Grants Administration

• Coordinate with Senior Finance Officer or Finance Manager on support to sub-awardees
• Review, monitor, and analyze expenditures, reconciliations, burn rate of sub-awardees budget and report irregularities to the Finance Manager.
• Provide Finance assistance to sub-awardees.

Procurement

• Contribute to full cycles procurement process, including but not limited to approvals, payments disbursements, and uploading relevant data.
• Contribute to Identifying and vetting vendors.
• Respond to non-routine inquiries from vendors and suppliers.
• Escalate vendor Irregularities, challenges, and difficulties to the supervisor.

Payroll

• Collaborate with Human Resources on payroll process flow including but not limited to personnel actions procedures.
• Facilitate monthly payroll.
• Review monthly payroll for accuracy of deductions and payroll changes, including but not limited to statutory deductions, mandatory withholdings, income taxes, and personnel actions.
• Review payroll for accuracy, including but not limited to income taxes, national social security, and insurance premiums.
• Maintain payroll register to include, but not limited to gross pay, statutory deductions, tax withholding, and leave balances.
• Infuse organizational values into all work
• Other duties that are broadly in line with the above key contributions as assigned

Compliance

• Ensure compliance of all operations in Projects with SFCG and donor procedures, as well as Tanzanian law.
• Ensure that SFCG financial policies, procedures and forms are shared, understood and respected by all project staff in the field office, to ensure maximum compliance.
• Ensure procurement process and procedures are observed.

• Performed Airtel Money Merchant reconciliations
• Review and reconcile all main Merchant transactions with vendors
• Reviewed and coached colleagues with matters concerning Airtel money merchant business and business analytics
• Generated reports from system data that management uses daily to run the Airtel money Business
• Investigated abnormal variances upon identification
• Prepared and published daily Reconciliation deck report for Management
• Compiled end of month Merchant Invoices and assist finance in billing processes
• Sorted customer queries to ensure rollbacks/reversals are timely sorted
• Conduct/attend meetings regarding merchant payments and platform to improve customer experience.
• Enhanced reconciliation efficiency by streamlining processes and implementing automation tools.
• Reduced financial discrepancies through diligent research and prompt resolution of outstanding items.

• Vetted Airtel Money agent merchant accounts and corporate to ensure compliance with KYC Process and procedures
• Ensured approved agent, merchant and corporate account and contract are in place and archived
• Prepared and updated agent list for approval
• Prepared and processed AM agents' codes
• Ensured AM agent complaints are recorded and resolved in time
• Ensured Airtel money register is updated daily
• Prepared daily MI on agents' merchants and corporate recruitments.

• Reconciled the cash book and bank statement entries for a particular period by using excel
• Provided Information to clients about legal mortgages and other securities
• Responsible for POS biometric capturing of clients for the rollout of the agent banking network as well as delivering customer education and awareness.