Senior Finance, Grants & Contracts Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic financial leadership for HPS Nigeria and serve as a trusted advisor to senior management.
• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, cash flow planning, burn-rate analysis, and financial performance monitoring.
• Manage the complete grant lifecycle, including proposal budgets, award setup, implementation, reporting, amendments, and closeout.
• Lead subcontract and subaward financial management, including budget reviews, due diligence, payment reviews, partner monitoring, reconciliations, and financial closeout.
• Ensure compliance with donor, HPS, IFPRI, and local regulatory requirements, including financial policies and cost allowability.
• Strengthen internal controls through segregation of duties, approval workflows, fraud prevention measures, and risk assessments.
• Oversee treasury operations, banking relationships, liquidity management, foreign currency transactions, and payment approvals.
• Coordinate external audits, donor audits, financial reviews, and corrective action implementation.
• Lead process improvement initiatives, including automation, financial systems, dashboards, SOP development, and workflow optimization.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop finance and grants staff while promoting accountability and high performance.
• Build collaborative relationships with HPS headquarters, IFPRI, NAF Nigeria, donors, implementing partners, and external stakeholders.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience
• A minimum of an MSc./MBA  degree in a related field