Musawakhe Ndlovu

• Overseeing all financial aspects of the program, including budget development, financial reporting, cash flow management, and financial analysis. This includes managing dollar program budget, tracking expenses, and ensuring compliance with USAID regulations and policies
• Lead a finance team to ensure accuracy and compliance in all financial transactions and reports.
• Develop and manage budgets for USAID projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and work plans
• Prepare regular financial reports for USAID and the project team. This includes preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, as well as ad hoc financial reports as needed.
• Monitor expenditures and cash flow to ensure proper allocation of funds and adherence to budgets ensuring compliance with USAID regulations and policies
• Managing USAID recipient contracted audits of the program, including financial audits and compliance audits. This includes coordinating with auditors, preparing audit documents, and responding to audit findings.
• Manage program procurement processes, including developing procurement plans, managing the procurement process, and ensuring compliance with USAID regulations and policies.
• Collaborate with program teams to support project planning and implementation through financial insights.
• Contribute to the development of financial policies and procedures to improve efficiency and controls.
• Train and mentor finance staff to ensure a high level of competence and productivity

· Assistance in completing monthly closing and forecasting processes including coordination with sales controllers, variance analysis and commentary packages

· Support in preparation of the annual profit plan & strategic plan

· Coordinate, interpret and respond to adhoc financial requests within division

· Analyse monthly reports for the South Africa organization

· Train sales controllers about Eaton policies, financial systems and reports

· Assistance in preparation of management presentations (Operations reviews, Profit plan etc.)

· Assistance in ensuring adequate internal controls and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley, SARS and audit requirements

· Support and propose various initiatives to reduce complexity, standardize and improve efficiency of the financial processes

· Additional ad-hoc analysis and project as necessary

· Promote good financial stewardship by helping control costs, driving forecast accuracy, driving balance sheet integrity and ensuring proper controls are inbplace

· Review all financial input into the SAGE X3 system for example payments for project expenses and operations, cash book entries, journals

· Summarise current financial status by collecting information; preparing balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and other reports

· Maintain accounting controls by ensuring adherence to laid down control.

· Prepare project budget for approval by funders

· Prepare reconciliations of the following accounts:

· Cash and Bank

· Fixed assets

· Accounts payable (Debtors)

· Accounts receivable (Creditors)

· Recommend appropriate controls within the finance department

· Preparation of financial packs for month end reporting.

· Review collection reports to determine the status of collections and the amounts of outst· Prepare project reports for funders

· Prepare analysis of monthly project financial statements

· Liaise with the Projects Managers and Administrators on an ongoing basis, ensuring that the information flow is maintained, and financial accounting support is provided per normal accounting practices

· Prepares the audit file within the deadline

· Liaise and assist auditors with queriesanding balances

· Select appropriate, accounting framework and policies

· Accounts for entity's transactions, including non-routine transactions

· Prepare or evaluate financial statements and accompanying notes

· Interpret financial statements

· Perform pre-engagement activity

· Obtain understanding of the entity end its environment

· Identify and evaluate risk of material misstatement

· Calculates and justify planning materiality

· Design effective and efficient procedures

· Execute audit field work plan, documents and evaluates results

· Prepare information for meetings with stakeholders

· Identify and respond to reportable irregularities