Finance Officer - Grants Compliance

About the role

Landscape Alliance is hiring a Finance Officer for Grants Compliance in Nairobi. The role covers donor audits, project documentation oversight, training and capacity building, and cash flow monitoring and invoice management, and acts as the single point of contact for IA queries alongside the Assistant Manager, Grants Compliance.

Key responsibilities

• Pre-audits: identify prospective audits, run pre-audits, close gaps and liaise with the IS team on audit readiness using AI.
• Legacy audits: liaise with auditors, collect and submit documents, respond to auditor queries and coordinate stakeholder meetings; prepare a lessons-learned report.
• Support the Assistant Manager, Grants Compliance with risk assessment, combined assurance mapping, website development, pillar assessments, policy and procedure updates and other grants-related tasks.
• Maintain Grants SharePoint in line with the documentation and records management guidelines, review and monitor country SharePoint folders, and liaise with IT teams on AI/automation tools.
• Create guidelines for partner supporting documents and update them periodically.
• Create a central knowledge hub for donor rules, compile lessons learned from closed grants and train the budgeting, PMU, procurement and grants team.
• Review new grants monthly and prepare a compliance summary deck, and work with the PMU on partner financial monitoring tools.
• Conduct onboarding and recurring training, liaise with HR for new staff and maintain a training guide for future grant accountants.
• Monitor the end-to-end invoicing cycle, track outstanding invoices and follow up on overdue payments to support cash flow planning.
• Perform other tasks assigned by the Assistant Manager, Grants Compliance, the Grants Finance Manager or the Chief Finance & Operations Officer.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or audit.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience, ideally with an international organization, with progressive responsibility in audits, project management and/or operations.
• Experience in financial, accounting and auditing services, and in audit, compliance or risk management.

Required skills

• Experience with an ERP.
• Familiarity with Agresso Unit 4 and Vision XL is an advantage.