Global Programs - Assistant Accountant
CurrentResponsibilities: Aid in the development and debugging of key management & program reports. Board Budgets and Forecast: Liase with key stakeholders across the department, creating a schedule, ensuring template files are rolled over accurately and loaded into ERP on time. Review program budgets and forecasts ensuring they meet donor expectations. Working closely with Financial Accounting to prepare journal entries and reports for month end by due date. Working with program staff to ensure programmatic budgets are correctly loaded into ERP for BvA report. Various process improvement initiatives to speed up key tasks within the team.Outcome: Created various reports: Automated tracker of staff recovery against budget/forecast targets, Self-service report that staff can run to see how much time and what program they have recovered against. Vastly improved existing reports: Streamlined budget/forecasting templates by consolidating existing tabs and re-creating the template to be more automated, ensured the month end BvA report reconciled to P&L report and expanded on report to provide information through different lenses. Successfully met the deadline for 9 different budget/forecast cycles.