Job Description

About the role:We are looking for a suitable candidate to join as Director- Finance, Operations & Grant Management. The role is meant for a person with 20+ years of relevant work experience.Responsibilities:Finance & Accounts:

• Budgeting, Cash flows, and investments: timely preparation and approvals.
• Accounts and Financial Statements: timely preparation and finalization.
• Audits: statutory and Internal: ensuring that there are no major observations and develop mitigation plan where necessary.
• Payroll: supervision for accuracy and timely disbursal

Compliance:

• Taxation, FCRA, Legal: ensuring timely preparations and legal compliance.
• Board and Secretarial: managing Board meetings and documentation. Ensuring secretarial work is timely completed.

Grant Management:

• Portfolio Selection and due diligence: ensuring alignment with CHATF\'s objectives & charitable intent and legal compliance.
• Portfolio: Monitoring and Evaluation: ensure timely execution of projects and appropriate documentation.
• Ensuring that portfolio agreements are comprehensive and are drawn in appropriate format.

Donor Management:

• Tata Trusts Grants: maintaining relationship with the TT Grant team and leadership.
• Ensuring timely submission of reports/UCs, seeking necessary approvals such as NCE and Reallocation.
• Other Donors: ensuring that the donor Agreements are comprehensive and legally compliant.
• Supporting Partnership team with the required financial reporting to the donors.

Admin:

• Supervision of Office Administration, Travel and IT for due execution

Procurement & Vendor Management: to ensure financial propriety and optimal utilisation of resources. * HR: Supervision of HR function: to ensure timely execution.

• Learning & Development: work out mechanisms to provide appropriate facilities for staff that would add value to their work.
• HR Policies: to ensure that the policies are focussed on building a good team and good work culture and to ensure implementation.

Cross-functional support:

• Operational - Coordination with Portfolio Team for:

a) Development and selection of innovations for funding support
b) Facilitating timely execution of projects.
c) Help resolve issues with the portfolio companies. * Collaborate with the Partnership team for curating proposals. Establishing internal systems to satisfy the requirement of the partnership arrangement and relevant reporting.

• Execution of NDAs, MOUs/agreements with Partnership organizations
• Strategic - Collaborate in preparation of CHATF\'s AWP and Budgets
• Setting and implementation of organization policies, and SOPs: with the aim to develop a focused and collaborative team that will deliver the objectives of CHATF.
• Participate in IHF vision, mission & strategy development.

Required Experience

• 20+ years of relevant experience working in an impact investment fund, social sector or grant organization, start-up, or social enterprise.
• Experience in accounting functions is essential.
• Experience in a not-for-profit organization is not essential but will be preferred.
• Graduate/postgraduate with a finance and accounting background.

Preferred Skills:

• Project execution and project management.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and Tally.
• Experience in team management.
• Expertise in stakeholder management.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Logical thinker, ability to connect the dots.
• Comfortable working in situations with tight timelines or dealing with ad-hoc requests.

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