Grants Finance Officer
Job Reference Number: DTHF-144
Closing Date: 23 February 2026
Location: Cape Town
Minimum Requirements
The Desmond Tutu Health Foundation is currently recruiting for an experienced Grants Finance Officer to ensure smooth financial administration and end-to-end management of projects and grants, and provide financial administration support to Project Leaders and on-site clinical research staff.
Job Requirements
- National Diploma in finance and/or related field of study
- Minimum of five years hands on financial management/accounting experience, management accounts and income and expenditure statements
- Minimum of five years hands on experience in compiling donor financial reports
- Minimum 3 years in-depth knowledge and experience in project audits
- Minimum 5 years managing Federal, EU and/or other grant funded initiatives
- Computer literacy in Ms Office; Excel Advanced
- Minimum 3 years working knowledge of SAP or similar financial package
- Excellent verbal and written communication; proficiency in English
- Ability to work methodically, efficiently and meticulously
- Strong planning and organizing skills and deadline driven
- Problem solving and decision-making skills
- Ability to multitask, work under pressure
- Ability to work independently and accurately with minimal supervision
- Excellent work standards
- Client focused
Advantageous:
- Grant administration experience within the academic health research environment or donor funder environment
- Managing subawards
- Valid code 08 driver’s license
- Be able to start as soon as possible
Responsibilities:
- Day-to-day financial administration and management of all grants assigned
- Understand, interpret and advise on donor/funder contracts and grant policy guidelines
- Preparation of financial reports in line with funder requirements
- Analysis of financial reports in a narrative format
- Resource planning and management
- Communication, training and adherence of financial and purchasing policies and procedures to site staff
- Manage projects assets by informing IT, Facilitates and Finance of purchase and movement
- Monitor monthly expenditure allocations in SAP
- Submit invoices to funders timeously and monitor incoming funds
- Prepare monthly project budget vs expense reports for internal review
- Salary allocation management – project current month allocations for assigned projects
- Manage site petty cash requests (daily/weekly/ monthly)
- Manage site credit/debit card transactions (daily/weekly/ monthly)
- Staff management of Site finance/procurement administrators
- Any other tasks and duties that may be appropriate to this position
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