Subawards Compliance Finance Officer, Puerto Rico or Colombia

Mercy Corps

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Position Title:

Subawards Compliance Finance Officer, Puerto Rico or Colombia

Location:

Puerto Rico or Colombia

Valid unrestricted work authorization in the country in which you will be based is required at the time of application for this position.

Position Status:
Full-time

Duration: until end September 2027

Salary Level: Puerto Rico: $46,000 to $54,625 ;
Colombia to be benchmarked on local scale - commensurate on professional experience -

closing date: posting closing October 8th

Risk Level: Level 3 Level 2 Level 1

(Level 3:
Frequent contact with participants, direct contact with children, access to sensitive data, and/or high level of accountability.

Level 2:
Some contact with participants; unplanned non-direct contact with children.

Level 1: Likely to have no contact with participants or sensitive data)

Barely enough is not enough for anyone. Prosper Global is a humanitarian organization working alongside communities facing conflict, climate change, and economic hardship to meet urgent needs and create the conditions for lasting progress. Today's challenges demand new solutions, so we pair local knowledge with global resources to help communities build what's needed, test what's possible, and scale what's proven so that people everywhere can pursue a full life on their own terms.

In 2026, we changed our name from Mercy Corps to Prosper Global, to reflect our belief that when every community can prosper, all of humanity moves forward.

Prosper Global is implementing a three-year Department of State-funded project called Strengthening Caribbean Economic Growth (SCEG) aimed at improving employability and entrepreneurship across the Caribbean. To achieve this, Mercy Corps will provide small grants to 12 local organizations across the region as well as provide recipients with capacity building and learning opportunities:
Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Dominica, Grenada, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the 5 Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Working in the Finance Department under the direction of the Finance Manager, the Subawards Compliance Finance Officer is responsible for monitoring partners actual expenditure is in line with the agreed award and works with sub-awardees to review their due diligence and financial reporting, to ensure the projects are being implemented with minimal risk.

• Responsible for the review of subrecipient budgets and budget narratives for completeness, as well as financial supporting documentation, accounting records, and expenditures to verify reasonableness, allowability, allocability and overall cost realism in compliance with MC and donor budget requirements.
• Review pre-award due diligence assessments of prospective subrecipients are conducted in accordance with the Mercy Corps Subaward Policy and Procedures (SPP) and donor requirements.
• Recommend appropriate risk mitigation measures, including the incorporation of special award conditions, to the subgrant agreement and/or monitoring plan to lessen financial and compliance risks.
• Review sub-award modifications by reviewing partner budget modification templates.
• Prepare Financial Monitoring Reports, document findings, communicate recommendations, and monitor implementation of corrective action plans until resolution.
• Review subrecipient fund requests and liquidation reports to verify supporting documentation including programmatic requirements are met.
• Prior to subaward close-out, conduct final financial reconciliation of subawards, ensuring all expenditures have been properly reported, liquidated, and reconciled prior to close-out and all requirements of the subaward agreement have been met and that subaward funds have been properly settled, respective reporting documentation and project-related documentation is documented and filed on the Share Point in full.
• Maintain complete, organized, and audit-ready subaward financial files throughout the entire subaward life cycle in accordance with the MC subaward Manual and Field Finance Manual.

• Develop subrecipient monitoring plans, conduct financial monitoring and prepare…