Finance Coordinator Project Financial

Location:

Tehran, Iran

Salary:

5500

Posted:

May 27, 2025

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Mehdi Aghaahmadi

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Nationality: Iranian

WORK EXPERINCE

Partnership (INTPA Consortium Coordination Unit) Finance coordinator: Norwegian Refugee Council,

Generic responsibilities:

• Implement NRC's systems and procedures at Partnership level.

• Ensure adherence to Partnership, NRC policies, handbooks, guidelines and donor requirements.

• Prepare and submit financial reports and analysis.

• Ensure proper filing of all supporting documents in the filing tree.

• Support partners in procedures and required finance team training.

• Implement anti-corruption policy.

• Support project staff in financial matters.

• Maintain budget control and monitor cash flow for the project (Finance).

• Ensure development and implementation of administrative systems and procedures.

• Promote the rights of refugees and displaced in line with NRC's advocacy strategy. Specific responsibilities:

• Prepare all consolidated financial reports both for donor (INTPA) and internal reporting requirements.

• Check and verify NRC Partners’ financial reports and documentation.

• Facilitate monthly Budget versus Actual (BvA) reports with budget holder and follow up on action points.

• Prepare regular project financial progress analysis for internal and external consumption

• Assist budget holders in preparation of budgets (Draft budget); prepare consolidated proposal or revised budgets for donor submission

• Maintain proper and accessible filing of project financial documentation

• Maintain Master budget update for the grant.

• Focal point for internal and external audit processes related to the Partnership grant

• Liaise with Partnership Partners to address gaps in financial capacity, reporting quality, to prepare supporting documentation and be prepared for audit procedures generally.

• Provide financial information and support to Partners, particularly related to donor compliance

• Be the focal point between implementing Partners and NRC.

• Build the capacity of partnership personnel and organizations as required Finance Coordinator (Secondment Agreement- Syria) (09.2022-12.2022) Norwegian Refugee Council, Syria

Budget Management:

• Updating Budget tables and correcting the budget table for the Area manager and program staff

• Analyzing program activities based on Budget table and Payments

• Preparing Budget for Donor budget template and Master budget

• Prepare the South Area Office Budget and spending analysis for the month of October and present and analysis the budget status onward.

• Attend the monthly budget revision meeting along with the AM with the finance coordinator at the CO.

• Build the capacity of the South Area Office finance officer on the budgeting tool.

• Allocating Donor Accounts to Donor budgets in the Budget monitoring tool.

• Preparing and allocating Salary and Detail budget for 4 Areas in the Master budget. Accounting:

• Updating Accounting system including Checking support documents in Hard copy and soft copy, updating system for uploading TNs, finding solutions for cash advance payments,

• Hands-on in managing day-to-day finance activity.

• Statistics by end of October on how the daily posting practice is met

• Ensure the closing of October is properly done at the South Area level with no carried-over payments to the coming month.

• Follow the payment trackers and present the lead time by the end of October as well as by the end of the assignment.

• Check the scanning and archiving ongoing activity and make sure that by the third week of November the scanning is up to date.

• Joint session with the AM and finance officer to present the so-far observation on day-to-day work and the way of improvement if any.

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Finance Coordinator (07.2019-Present)

Norwegian Refugee Council, Iran

Budget Management:

• Build the capacity of the South Area Office Budget holders and new staff on the budgeting tool.

• Preparing Budget for Donor budget template and Master budget.

• Monthly Review, Analyzing budget for Area Manager and program team.

• Monthly Present and Analyzing the Program situation based on Burn rate and budget implementation for the Program team and Area Managers and relocation budget between CCs.

• Preparing budget tables for IPs (Implementing partners) like governmental NGOs

• Managing budget and expenditure in approval time to PRs, Pos.

• Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines that have a bearing on matters related to DONORs (ECHO, GFFO, INTPA, SIDA, DANIDA, UNICEF, NMFA, etc.) Accounting:

• Training of finance-related policies, handbooks, guidelines, and donor requirements

• Lead the daily financial verification (Logistic, HR, and Implementing Partners Payments), payment preparation, and posting in AGRESSO (accounting system)

• Properly submit report and analyse and prepare of all supporting documents.

• Verification of IPs (Implementing partners) documents for each instalment.

• Participate in BID opening with my threshold (Up to 50,000 USD) and sometimes instead of the finance manager up to 300,000 USD

• Handling and responsible for closing the balance account and reporting to finance manager monthly.

• Preparing cash flow at area level and preparing reports for the country office.

• Keeps up-to-date on documents/reports/guidelines based on the Finance handbook, HR handbook and Logistics handbook.

Finance Officer (12.2017-07.2019)

Norwegian Refugee Council, Iran

• Training of finance-related policies, handbooks, guidelines, and donor requirements

• Lead the daily financial verification (Logistic, HR and Implementing Partners Payments), payment preparation, and posting in AGRESSO (accounting system)

• Preparing budget tables for IPs (Implementing partners).

• Verification of IPs (Implementing partners) documents for each instalment.

• Participate in BID opening for selecting the supplier as area finance with my threshold (Up to 50,000 USD) and sometime instead of the finance manager up to 300,000 USD

• Act as a focal point for preparing and reporting documents to the audit.

• Preparing cash flow at the area level and preparing reports for the country office. Finance and HR manager, (03.2015-12.2017)

Kvoshgaran Nasre Jonoob CO

• Led and trained on finance-related policies, handbooks, and rules of to finance team (8 Members).

• Handling, and responsible for the accounting system and monthly closing.

• Preparing, and closing the fiscal year and preparing financial statement for audit and TAX organization.

• Support Departments in the assessment of Finance and HR capacity gaps and offer solutions to fill them through Workforce Planning

• Implement the organization’s Finance and HR systems and procedures.

• Keep up-to-date documents/reports related to finance, and Logistic, and HR team

• Development of relevant policies and handbooks related to budget and accounting in Finance/HR/Logistic units.

• Ensure compliance with the local labor law.

• Preparing Monthly Budget and cash flow based on income and expenses

• Lead and managing the budget based on payments and investment.

• Preparing budget and presenting in the meting to executive manger and project manager based on income and expenses.

• Preparing documents for participating in the BID opening.

• Responsible as a focal point for preparing documents and answering auditors, Tax organization, and SSO organization questions about clarification of transactions, list of staff, tax of income and befit and loss.

• Control of project progress and their cost and income and follow up for payments from the employer. Chief Accounting (08.2014-03.2015)

Kvoshgaran Nasre Jonoob CO

• Led and trained on finance-related policies, handbooks, and rules to finance team (6 Members).

• Building capacity for finance staff and new joiners staff.

• Keeping up-to-date documents/reports/accounting system.

• Control and keeping costs and income of project cost and budget and presenting in the meeting.

• Responsible for combing data from multiple data source and preparing report to fiance manager.

• Checking accounting system and transactions (Salary, assets, stock and financial transactions, and correcting the wrong transactions.

• Verification and preparing payment and posting in the accounting system Finance and HR Manager (02.2014-08.2014)

Ekram Sanate Mahdi CO

• Implement the organization’s HR and admin systems and procedures

• Led the process to receiving loan from governmental bank

• Led and managing the process to import the machineries from Turkey

• Development of relevant policies and handbooks in finance and HR units.

• Led and trained on finance-related policies, handbooks, and rules to finance team (2 Members).

• Responsible for combing data from multipel data source.

• Preparing and closing the fiscal year, and preparing financial statement for audit and TAX organization

• Responsible as a focal point for preparing documents to auditors, Tax organization and SSO organization.

• Support Departments in the assessment of finance and HR capacity gaps and offer solutions to fill them through Workforce Planning

Financial and Industrial chief accounting (10.2012- 02.2014) Faravari Parsian Sepehr CO.

• Lead and trained the finance team in the factory

• Control the industrial process expenses and cost of manufactured goods.

• Preparing, checking and control all documents/process/report in financial and industrial accounting.

• Verification and prepare the payment payable and proper filing.

• preparing reports for year-end in cost and financial accounting for managers and TAX organization Teacher (09.2013-01.2014)

• Teaching Advance accounting and Taxation subject in Azad university Page 3 / 5

• Teaching Advance accounting and Taxation subject in Payam-e Nour university

• Teaching Advance accounting and Taxation subject in Elmi - Karbordi university EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Advanced Accounting and Taxation as a master student University of Pune, Pune, India

• Taxation

• Accounting

• Project management

• Economics

Advanced Accounting and Taxation as a BA student

Payam-e-Noor University, Mazandaran, Iran

• Taxation

• Accounting

• Project management

• Economics

PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue(s) Persian

Other language(s)

English C1 C1 C1 C1 C1

Communication skills-

• Excellent communication skills gained

• Excellent Coordination skills gained through my experience as coordinator

• Excellent in establishing communication channels Organizational / managerial skills

• leadership

• Planning

• Delegation

• Problem solving

Job-related skills

• Excellent report writing including financial and narrative

• Coordination

• Able to gather and critically analyze data, gaps and trends

• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage efficiently multiple priorities, deadlines and tasks (as head of unit I improved all of my organizational skills) UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production Computer skills

• Excellent command of Microsoft Office tools

• Outlook

• Spreadsheet

Driving licence B

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Sep 2020

Public Financial Management