1. Establish and maintain a sound financial and internal control systems and procedures for the project and ensure that they are adhered with the GoR Regulations and Donor Procedures; 2. Prepare and support in the preparation of the project annual budgets as part of the annual work plan and budget preparation and revisions; 3. Ensure that payments are timely made and recorded in accordance with the approved budgeted/planned amounts as approved and complies with Financial Management Manuals, the financing agreements and other laid down accounting procedures and operational guidelines; 4. Ensure that all payment vouchers are adequately supported with appropriate source documentations, duly authorized for payment and properly filed to facilitate easy retrieval and referencing; 5. Ensure that approved bank accounts are maintained at adequate levels to enable scheduled payments to be made without delay, undertaking timely cash flow projections and observing good treasury and cash management practices; 6. Design and provide the SPIU Coordinator with smoothly analytical reports on the financial performance of the projects; 7. Prepare monthly reconciliation statements for all bank accounts; 8. Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements as appropriate as well as any other financial status reports required by stakeholders, program legal agreements and the financial reporting framework of the GoR; 9. Maintain accurate recording of all project’s assets in the asset register as managed in IFMIS and subsequently carryout timely updates, reconciliation and verification of such assets acquired for the projects 10. Lead, facilitate and support the internal and external audit of the project’s annual financial statement by preparing the necessary reports from the projects accounting system and other records, in accordance with prescribed standards; 11. Liaise with Office of Auditor General and/or the External Audit Firm and have responsibility for the timely submission of audited project financial statements to the project’s funders; 12. Perform any other related tasks as may be deemed necessary and assigned by the immediate supervisor.