State Finance Officer at Society for Family Health (SFH)


Newsletter Archives - Society for Family Health Nigeria Newsletter Archives - Society for Family Health Nigeria_SFH

Society for Family Health is one of Nigeria’s largest non-governmental organisations. Founded in 1985 by three eminent Nigerians: Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, Justice Ifeyinwa Nzeako, Pharmacist Dahiru Wali and Phil Harvey. Society for Family Health Nigeria has a mission to empower Nigerians, particularly the poor and vulnerable to lead healthier lives. Working with the private and public sectors, SFH adopts social marketing and behaviour change communication to improve access to essential health information, services, and products to motivate the adoption of healthy behaviours.

  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
  • Experience: 4 years
  • Location: Not specified
  • Job Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit  , NGO/Non-Profit 

Job Profile: 

The State Finance Officer will be responsible for ensuring that all funds received from the donor are effectively and efficiently utilized in accordance with SFH and donor financial rules for the purpose of actualizing the project goals. The SFO will ensure availability of funds for effective programming and support the adoption of good financial practices by CBOs. 

Job-role:   

  • Ensure that transactions are posted in SAP prior to making payments   
  • Ensure that all stakeholders are paid as and when due   
  • Ensure availability of funds for program implementation    
  • Ensure availability of funds in budgets GL line items  
  • Ensure all cost are duly captured and reported appropriately. 
  • Review of CBO Monthly financial report  
  • Support in building CBOs capacity on financial management and compliance   
  • Support in monitoring CBOs budget to ensure spending is done appropriately  
  • Ensure prompt disbursement of funds to Partners  
  • Review Partners quarterly financial report   
  • Support in the preparation of financial reports – Income and expenditure, Balance sheet, Trial Balance   
  • Preparation of  state project bank reconciliations  
  • Reconciliation of control accounts and other balance sheets items 

Qualifications/Experience 

  • Bsc. Accounting or any other related field 
  • A master’s degree will be an advantage. 
  • Professional certification i.e. ACCA, ICAN will be an advantage 
  • A minimum of Four (4) years’ experience with progressively increasing responsibility in managing USAID project.   
  • Demonstrated ability of previous experience managing other support staff at state office level.  
  • Demonstrated ability through previous experience to establish and maintain productive working relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders. 

Method of Application

CLICK HERE TO APPLY