Finance Officer - Grants Compliance

About the role

The Finance Officer - Grants Compliance supports Landscape Alliance in ensuring donor compliance, audit readiness and proper grant documentation. The role provides operational support for audit processes, grant documentation and compliance monitoring, contributing to stronger donor compliance, accountability and consistent compliance practices across teams.

Key responsibilities

• Pre-audits: identify prospective audits, run pre-audits, close gaps and liaise with the IS team to use AI for audit readiness
• Legacy audits: liaise with auditors, collect and submit documents, respond to auditor queries and prepare a lessons-learned report
• Support the Assistant Manager, Grants Compliance with grants queries, risk assessment, combined assurance mapping, pillar assessments and policy updates
• Project documentation: maintain Grants and Country SharePoint, monitor compliance with records management guidelines, and liaise with IT on automated checks
• Create guidelines for partner supporting documents and define mandatory requirements shared with partners at LOA signing
• Training: build a knowledge hub for donor rules, compile lessons learned, train the budgeting, PMU, procurement and grants team, and handle onboarding for new staff
• Cash flow: monitor the invoicing cycle, track outstanding invoices and escalate overdue receivables
• Other duties assigned by the Assistant Manager, Grants Compliance, Finance Manager or Chief Finance & Operations Officer

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or audit
• At least 5 years of relevant experience, ideally in 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

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