1.Pre-Award proposal development

• Develop proposal budgets and budget narratives in collaboration with the Resource mobilization Team and the Research Teams.
  
• Review and advise on the project proposal/budget preparation regarding compliance issues for all prospective sources of funding.
  
• Ensure an accurate full cost recovery methodology to cover CIFOR_ICRAF non-research expenses and specific research units’ costs.
  
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of relevant donor policies, regulations, and procedures.
  
• To ensure the organization’s policies on full cost recovery and laid down donor regulations are adhered to in all donor proposal budgets.
  

• Monitoring of the Centre funds budgets and expenditures; and work closely with PI in updating the projection of center funds.
  
• Prepare financial updates and analysis of centre funds and share the report with PI.
  
• Support Finance Manager in preparation of centre funds’ performance report and follow up any correction action that are required from the respective units.
  
• Monitor the workflow status of budget input in the system and follow up to the respective units.
  
• Liaise with System Development Team to solve any technical issue in the budget system
  
• Monitor the status of high probability proposals in collaboration with Resource Mobilization and Research Team.
  
• Ensure the CIFOR-ICRAF Rolling budget is up to date.
  
• Provide ad hoc report and gather information from the system to support the analysis on the centre funds and annual budget.
  

• Support Finance Manager in preparation of performance reports and analysis including funding status and CIFOR-ICRAF burn rate consequently indicating indirect cost recovery.
  
• Monitor the burn rate status under unit / region that are assigned, provide the analysis, and report to the Senior Finance Officer
  
• Collaborate with the Grants Accounting Team in providing necessary reports and in analyzing of grants burn rates and indirect cost recovery status.
  
• Contribute to the discussions with relevant stakeholders on planning and monitoring of interventions to keep the various teams and projects on budget
  
• Support Finance Manager in the preparation of all reports (including ad hoc reports), information and data required or requested by ILMG and the Board of Trustees.
  
• Initiate and participate in the development and implementation of reporting platforms and templates within OCS and other platforms for the different stakeholders.
  

4. Internal Controls

• Implement internal control systems that ensure CIFOR_ICRAF attains its objectives, produce accurate and reliable data for decision making.