The Financial Project Controller plays a critical role in overseeing the financial management of grant-funded projects, ensuring compliance with donor requirements and organizational policies. This role requires advanced skills in financial analysis, grant management and stakeholder management.
Financial Project Controller (f/m/d) – Remote
from 45.000EUR for full time (38h)
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning and Reporting:
- Develop comprehensive project budgets, incorporating inputs from multiple stakeholders and accounting for potential risks and contingencies.
- Develop Monthly, Quarterly, Biannually, and Yearly Financial Reports.
- Analyze financial information to assess project performance and budget utilization.
Grant Management:
- Coordinate, compile, draft, and edit high-quality financial reporting.
- Ensuring adherence to donor regulations and requirements throughout the project lifecycle, including financial management, procurement, and reporting.
- Maintaining regular communication with donor, partners, program team and other stakeholders to provide updates on project progress and address concerns.
Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing:
- Providing training and technical assistance to project staff and partners to strengthen their skills in grant management, financial reporting, and compliance.
- Stay informed of emerging trends, best practices, and regulatory changes in grant funding and financial management and ensure the relevant stakeholders are informed as well.
- Identify opportunities for innovation and improvement in grant management processes and financial controls.
Your Profile:
- Proficient in working with financial figures, with a basic understanding of accounting procedures.
- Advanced Excel skills and a keen interest in working with data integration and linking different systems are highly preferred skills for this role.
- Proven ability to maintain effective working relationships in diverse, multicultural environments.
- Eagerness to enhance processes and databases, with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Excellent English. French skills are preferable. Hands-on approach, proactive personality and strong motivation.
We offer:
- You join a highly motivated team, appreciating your experience and eager to jointly shape Light for the Worlds monitoring and steering mechanisms.
- We are offering an outstanding opportunity to bring about change through an international development organization with strong expertise and a growing profile.
- We are committed to giving our colleagues space to explore new directions, test new ideas and to excel as individuals through and with their team.
- We emphasize a good work-life-balance, have flexible working hours and Home-Office opportunity.
- We are a professional team that strives towards continuous development.
- We believe in participatory leadership and expect you to contribute your expertise and ideas.
- We believe that learning from mistakes is an important way of developing and put emphasis on our culture of learning.
LIGHT FOR THE WORLD INTERNATIONAL
Web: http://www.light-for-the-world.org