The Senior Finance Officer will work closely with principal investigators, project directors and USAID to facilitate financial and contractual compliance and financial reporting for large, multi-site, USAID-funded awards at the Measure Program in the Carolina Population Center. This position communicates with project partners, in-country implementers and UNC staff to ensure that all awards are in financial and contractual compliance with UNC, North Carolina and USAID policies and regulations and contractual terms.
Job functions include monitoring overall award ceilings, obligations and expenditures; monitoring project partner ceilings, obligations and expenditures; drafting sub-agreements and negotiating sub-agreements with USAID and partners; and facilitating relationships with partner financial staff while ensuring confidentiality of partner proprietary financial information. This position will document and forecast trends in funding to provide recommendations and/conclusions on financial funding and expenditure patterns and perform advance financial analyses in order to prepare written reports for senior management and project senior staff on financial status, progress and trends and identify adverse trends and provide appropriate recommendations to mitigate potential problems.
This position will review contractual requirements (financial and non-financial) and ensure compliance with requirements such as submission of required financial reports and project documents (i.e., marking and branding plan, work plans and activity budgets); obtaining USAID-required approvals for international travel and equipment purchases; ensuring any USAID training requirements are met by all staff and sub-contractors (i.e., trafficking in persons, Mexico city policy); and ensuring all staff have signed appropriate non-disclosure agreements.
This position is also responsible for ensuring projects and project activities and country programs are closed out according to UNC, North Carolina and USAID regulations, including overseeing equipment disposition and preparation of final financial documents.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree with 12 credit hours of accounting coursework; or Associate’s degree in accounting; or Associate’s degree in business or related discipline with 12 credit hours of accounting coursework; or equivalent combination of training and experience. All degrees must be received from appropriately accredited institutions.
Required Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:
Computer literacy, including Windows Operating Systems and Microsoft Office products. Advanced Excel skills required including charting and formatting.
Preferred Qualifications, Competencies, and Experience:
* Knowledge of Federal and State rules and regulations
* Prior experience working with USAID cooperative agreements.
* Experience working on multi-site, multi-country awards.
* Proven ability to work effectively with both funding agencies and with national and local personnel.
* Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* International experience in developing countries.
Since 1966, researchers at the Carolina Population Center have pioneered data collection and research techniques that move population science forward by emphasizing life course approaches, longitudinal surveys, the integration of biological measurement into social surveys, and attention to context and environment. We are also at the forefront of creating interdisciplinary training programs that integrate approaches from the social and biological sciences, building research capacity and training the next generation of scholars. Our faculty fellows address pressing research questions about population dynamics, fertility, health, mortality, migration, and the environment. Faculty come from multiple disciplines, benefitting from the cross-pollination of ideas. Our dedicated research and programming staff support fellows at every stage of project development, from conception through data collection or acquisition, analysis and dissemination, and project administration. https://www.cpc.unc.edu/about/