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