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

With 75 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.

Come join our 31,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type

Local - Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

Job Description

Recruitment is Contingent upon Award and Donor Approval

Major Responsibilities

Country Financial Management (20%)

• Lead preparation, management and periodic revision of the FCI Tanzania country budget, ensuring alignment with approved programme strategies, annual work plans, technical priorities, partner implementation plans and donor requirements.
• Prepare and maintain phased budgets, annual spending plans, monthly cash-flow forecasts, pipeline analyses and budget-versus-actual reports in collaboration with the Country Project Director, technical team and Global Finance Team.
• Establish financial mechanisms that enable WVT to monitor the FCI 80/20 efficiency commitment, including tracking the proportion of resources reaching frontline health workers, hubs, spokes, faith-based facilities and community service-delivery platforms against programme-management and administrative expenditure.
• Develop practical cost-efficiency analyses, including where appropriate: cost per hub and spoke; cost per frontline health worker supported; cost per facility/community platform; partner management costs; unit costs for major interventions; management and administrative cost ratios.
• Review expenditures, general-ledger coding, journal entries, reconciliations, advances, partner liquidations and supporting documentation to ensure costs are accurate, properly approved, allowable and charged to the correct budget and activity.
• Prepare accurate and timely monthly, quarterly, annual and donor financial reports, including burn-rate analysis; budget variances; pipeline forecasts; partner expenditure performance; commitments and obligations; and management recommendations.
• Manage country cash flow and funds requests in accordance with approved work plans and implementation requirements while avoiding unnecessary accumulation of cash or interruption of programme implementation.
• Manage financial flows to consortium and local implementing partners, including consortium members, faith-based partners and community implementing organizations, ensuring timely disbursement, utilization, reconciliation and accountability.
• Maintain appropriate financial monitoring of implementation resources distributed across hubs, spokes, community platforms and participating partners, with sufficient visibility of expenditures by geography, partner and major intervention.
• Ensure adequate financial arrangements are established for field implementation, including travel, training, supportive supervision, frontline workforce support and other approved programme activities.
• Lead financial close-out planning from the outset of the programme, including accrual and obligation tracking, partner close-out, advance clearance, asset disposition, final reporting and records retention.
  

End Results

FCI Tanzania resources are effectively planned, budgeted, monitored and reported, with accurate and timely financial information supporting programme and management decisions. Cash flow, partner disbursements and expenditures are proactively managed; budget variances and financial risks are addressed promptly; and resources are demonstrably directed toward frontline service delivery in accordance with the FCI 80/20 efficiency commitment.

Compliance, Risk, and Audit (15%)

• Apply applicable U.S. Government/GHSD award requirements, including relevant provisions of 2 CFR 200, award terms and conditions, World Vision policies, Tanzanian laws and statutory requirements in all programme financial and compliance decisions.
• Where other funding or cost-sharing mechanisms interact with FCI implementation, ensure appropriate segregation, attribution and compliance of expenditure.
• Review costs for: allowability; allocability; reasonableness; proper authorization; budget availability; procurement compliance; correct coding; and adequacy of supporting documentation.
• Establish and maintain strong internal controls across WVT and partner implementation, including segregation of duties; approval workflows; reconciliations; cash controls; asset management; payroll controls; document retention; procurement controls; conflict-of-interest management; and fraud-mitigation measures
• Maintain and regularly review the country finance and compliance risk register, ensuring risks associated with rapid scale-up, multiple partners, decentralized implementation and hub-and-spoke service delivery are identified and mitigated.
• Maintain country compliance trackers, advance-aging schedules, audit-action plans, questioned-cost logs and corrective-action trackers.
• Undertake risk-based financial and compliance monitoring of partners and implementation locations.
• Support internal, donor, external and statutory audits by ensuring that financial records, procurement files, contracts, subaward records, approvals, payment documentation and programme evidence remain ready.
• Lead timely follow-up and closure of audit findings, compliance findings and costs questioned.
• Support investigation response processes and implementation of corrective actions related to misuse of resources or suspected non-compliance
• Support preparation for donor financial reviews, Inspector General reviews, compliance assessments, and site visits, ensuring timely resolution of findings and recommendations.
• Ensure staff and partners understand World Vision requirements related to ethical financial management; fraud prevention; anti-corruption; conflict of interest; whistleblowing; safeguarding-related financial controls; and reporting suspected misuse of resources.
• Ensure compliance risks associated with financial data, personally identifiable information and digital financial systems are appropriately managed in coordination with relevant WVT functions.
  

End Results

FCI Tanzania maintains strong financial controls and consistently complies with applicable donor requirements, World Vision policies and Tanzanian statutory requirements. Financial and compliance risks are proactively identified and mitigated, programme and partner records remain audit-ready, and audit/compliance findings and questioned costs are resolved promptly with minimal exposure to disallowed costs, fraud or misuse of resources.

Sub-Grant Management and Partner Capacity (15%)

• Coordinate the country-level sub-grant management process, including partner due diligence, pre-award assessments, subrecipient risk assessments, subaward setup, budget review, agreement support, and start-up orientation in coordination with World Vision grants, finance, procurement, and compliance teams.
• Assess, strengthen and document internal control frameworks across WVT and participating partners, ensuring controls remain proportionate to risk and compliant with donor requirements.
• Review partner budgets, advance requests, liquidation reports, invoices, financial reports, procurement files, payroll support, and other supporting documentation for compliance, accuracy, completeness, and timely resolution of issues.
• Develop and implement risk-based financial monitoring plans for CHAs, FBOs, and other local partners receiving project resources, using practical tools such as desk reviews, field monitoring checklists, partner visit reports, and corrective action plans.
• Track partner advances, spending rates, budget balances, financial performance, compliance findings, questioned costs, corrective actions, and capacity-strengthening milestones through closure.
• Provide hands-on coaching and technical assistance to partners on budgeting, financial reporting, internal controls, procurement documentation, payroll support, donor compliance, document retention, and audit readiness.
• Coordinate subrecipient closeout processes, including final reconciliations, liquidation of advances, resolution of questioned costs, confirmation of asset disposition, retention of supporting documentation, and timely submission of final partner reports.
  

End Results

Subawards and partner resources are managed through effective due diligence, risk assessment, financial monitoring and accountability mechanisms. Partner advances and expenditures are timely and accurately accounted for, compliance issues are identified and resolved, and subrecipients successfully meet financial, reporting, documentation and close-out requirements.

Financial Performance, Cost Efficiency and Sustainability (20%)

• Lead routine financial performance and efficiency analysis, including burn rates, budget utilisation, expenditure trends, unit costs and cost drivers, and provide timely recommendations to the Chief of Party and programme leadership for corrective action and resource optimisation.
• Establish and maintain mechanisms to monitor the FCI 80/20 efficiency commitment, providing clear visibility of resources reaching frontline health workers, hubs, spokes, faith-based facilities and community service-delivery platforms compared with programme management and administrative costs.
• Develop and periodically update cost-efficiency and value-for-money analyses, including cost per hub/spoke, facility or community platform, frontline health worker supported, major intervention and partner-management costs, to inform programme planning and resource-allocation decisions.
• Work with the Chief of Party, Technical Director and MEL Manager to integrate financial and programme performance data, ensuring resources are prioritised toward interventions, locations and delivery approaches demonstrating strong performance, efficiency and contribution to programme results.
• Provide financial modelling and analysis to support government, CHA/FBO and local partner ownership and domestic financing, including estimating recurrent costs, financing gaps, affordability and resource requirements for sustaining priority FCI-supported services, workforce and systems.
• Support development and implementation of the programme's financial sustainability and transition strategy, including costing functions proposed for government/FBO absorption, tracking financial commitments and co-investments, and providing evidence to inform phased transition and institutionalisation decisions.
  

End Results

FCI Tanzania demonstrates strong financial performance, value for money and transparent resource allocation, with the 80/20 efficiency commitment routinely monitored and management decisions informed by credible financial and programme evidence. Sustainable financing requirements are clearly identified, and Government, CHA/FBO and local partners are progressively supported to plan, finance and assume viable programme costs and functions for long-term sustainability.

Localization and Partner Financial Capacity Strengthening (15%)

• Assess the financial management, grants compliance, internal controls, and documentation capacity of CHAs, FBOs, and other local implementing partners.
• Develop practical partner-capacity strengthening plans, tools, checklists, and templates to improve budgeting, cash management, financial reporting, procurement documentation, audit readiness, and closeout practices.
• Support local partners, including those with limited prior U.S. Government funding experience, to progressively meet donor and World Vision financial and compliance standards.
• Track progress against partner-capacity strengthening milestones and provide regular updates to the Country Project Director, and Global Finance and Compliance teams.
  

End Results

Participating CHAs, FBOs and local implementing partners demonstrate progressively stronger financial management, internal controls, procurement, donor compliance, reporting and audit-readiness capacity, enabling them to responsibly manage donor resources and assume greater financial and implementation responsibility within FCI and locally owned health systems.

Coordination, Systems, and Grant Operations (15%)

• Coordinate with the Country Project Director, procurement, People and Culture/HR, operations, MEL, technical teams, and Global Finance and Compliance teams to align budgets, work plans, procurement plans, partner budgets, and reporting deadlines.
• Use World Vision financial systems, accounting software, shared drives, grant files, and reporting tools to maintain accurate financial records, supporting documentation, trackers, and audit evidence.
• Provide finance and compliance inputs for work plans, budget revisions, donor reports, partner performance reviews, management meetings, sustainability planning, and grant closeout.
• Support practical financial modeling for cost efficiency, partner resource needs, government absorption, domestic financing, and transition of selected activities to government, CHAs, FBOs, or locally owned systems.
  

End Results

Financial, procurement, programme, MEL and partner-management processes are effectively coordinated and supported by accurate and accessible financial systems, grant files and management information. Budgets, work plans, procurement plans and reporting timelines remain aligned, while financial modelling provides credible evidence for cost efficiency, domestic financing, government/FBO absorption and programme transition decisions.

Knowledge/Qualifications For The Role

Required Professional Experience

• Minimum 6–8 years of progressive experience in financial management, grants compliance, and subaward oversight for donor-funded programs, preferably including U.S. Government funding.
• Demonstrated practical knowledge of, including 2 CFR 200award terms and conditions, cost allowability, procurement documentation, internal controls, subrecipient monitoring, audit readiness, and closeout.
• Experience working with World Vision or similar international NGO financial policies, National Office finance processes, and donor-funded program operations strongly preferred. strong audit outcomes.
• Proficiency with accounting software and ERP systems required, including use of experience using financial systems for budgeting, general ledger review, account coding, expenditure tracking, reconciliations, advances, reporting, cash management, and document retention.
• Advanced; advanced Excel skills and familiarity with donor financial reporting tools, grant trackers, partner monitoring templates, and shared document-management platforms strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting grant and subrecipient closeout processes, including final financial reporting, reconciliation of advances, resolution of questioned costs, asset disposition, and audit documentation.
• Experience coaching local partners and strengthening financial management and compliance capacity required. Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; proficiency in the national/local language(s) strongly preferred.
• Experience with faith-based organizations and fragile or conflict-affected contexts preferred.
• Spiritual maturity and a biblical worldview – Ability to articulate and model our Christian identity and mission in an inclusive way.
  

Required Education, Training, License, Registration, And Certification

Bachelor’s degree required in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field; Master’s degree or professional certification such as CPA, ACCA, CIA, CFE, or equivalent preferred.

Preferred Technical Competencies

• Organizational Awareness: Understands business operations and the mission, work and priorities of the organization. Applies understanding of the organization’s informal structure, culture and climate in achieving goals.
• Program Design and Implementation: Effectively design development and relief programs that transform communities in need. Understands how to acquire and integrate resources to support program design.
• Sector Knowledge: Understand current methodologies and standards associated with different sectors and effectively applies knowledge in designing, monitoring and evaluating programs.
• Funding Mechanisms Knowledge: Understands diverse funding mechanisms (e.g., cost proposals, etc.), how they operate, and the requirements for each, and applies knowledge in developing budgets.
• Managing Resources: Identifies appropriate people, facilities, tools and materials, time constraints, vendors, etc. for accomplishing goals. Considers potential costs and benefits of resources prior to allocating them.
• Coaching and Developing Others: Coach and mentor others effectively. Understands the performance evaluation process, how to give and receive feedback, how to find and set up developmental opportunities, and how adults learn.
• Knowledge Management: Effectively organizes and manages information resources so that current, critical knowledge is retained and information can easily be disseminated. Develops feedback loops to ensure best practice information is captured.
• English Language Proficiency: The ability to speak, understand and write fluently in English.
  

Please Note: World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization with a mission centred on following Jesus Christ in service to the world´s most vulnerable children. Therefore, in all locations to the fullest extent legally permissible, the successful applicant will affirm our core documents, observe conduct compatible with Christian principles, serve at a high level of professional ethics and strive to act in accordance with cultural sensitivities. Furthermore, regular attendance with team and office devotions, chapel and prayer gatherings are expected in line with policies in the World Vision host location and its departments

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