Overview
The Project Finance Internship provides essential financial and administrative support within the Finance Management team, assisting with financial tracking, document verification, and reporting.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in reviewing payment requests, invoices, and supporting documents for completeness, accuracy, and compliance.
- Ensure expenditures are properly documented, authorized, and aligned with correct project budget lines.
- Support the preparation of payment documents and track their processing status.
- Monitor the acquittal/liquidation of advances and track outstanding balances.
- Assist in conducting basic budget variance analysis and preparing project forecasts.
- Maintain secure, organized, and easily traceable digital and physical filing systems for financial documents.
- Oversee the receipt of financial documents from Implementing Partners.
- Assist in tracking partner financial submissions and prepare simple summary trackers.
- Coordinate with IPs in preparing financial documents and follow up on missing or unclear documentation.
- Provide financial documentation during internal and external audit fieldwork.
- Participate in preparing materials for project coordination meetings.
Required Experience
Prior experience or volunteering (preferred) with NGOs is highly desirable.
Qualifications
Final year bachelor/master's student or a fresh graduate in accounting, financial management, banking, commerce or a related field.
