Financial Consultant

Budget Build, Humanitarian Programme

Location: Flexible

Duration: Based on scope of works (approx. 10-15 days)

Engagement Objective

The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is seeking a financial consultant to assess the current budget and future budgetary outlook of IPPF’s Humanitarian Programme.  The consultant will follow up the creation/re-build of this profile, with an assessment with commentary on the health of the budget outlook. This further assessment is to include any expected calls on the budget (e.g. major investments to be made, expected donor investments or grants, etc) and commentary on whether the budget is fulsome and fit for purpose.

The initial analysis will form the first milestone and will be due on 15 July. It will be a Microsoft excel document containing the humanitarian programme’s budget for the current calendar year (2018) and projections for 2019 and 2020. The second milestone consisting of the further assessment and commentary will be due in August. It will be in the most digestible format (either pdf, word, or excel, or combination of all).  The commentary will be a report provided to IPPF as a fair and independent assessment of the budgetary outlook.

The purpose of both documents and milestones is to provide a snapshot of the humanitarian programme’s finances now and until December 2021.  These will be used as one aspect in discerning the success of the humanitarian programme’s integration into IPPF.  The more comprehensive report will be used to inform the development of a detailed business plan for the Humanitarian programme.  Both the reports developed will be submitted to the Humanitarian Programme’s Director  and will further inform IPPF’s 6 Solutions exercise.

Key deliverables

As noted above, the key deliverables are:

1. A budget document that incorporates the current calendar year and the outlook for three and a half future years for the Humanitarian Programme.
2. A detailed assessment and synopsis report (not more than 5 pages) on the viability of the Humanitarian Programme’s budget and outlook. The assessment is to incorporate any funding expected from feasible partnerships, donor grants or agreements; major investments required from the Humanitarian Programme; any programmable draws on the Humanitarian Programme.  The report will include commentary on the reasonableness of the Programme’s outlook, any shortfall’s and, where possible, benchmarking against similar organisations.[1]
3. Draft guidance on cost recovery approach for restricted projects, due end of August.

Please see the full terms of reference below.

Fees

Fees must be quoted in USD or AUD. Please indicate daily rate and number of days’ work. Fees should exclude Value Added Tax (VAT), or similar. Where VAT is required to be paid, VAT should be shown separately and indicated separately on invoices.

Expressions of Interest

Consultants interested in this role should provide:

• A brief cover letter (no more than a few pages) outlining experience and qualifications against the requirements listed above, a proposed assurance approach and timeline, and their quote to complete the work.
• Curriculum Vitaes (CVs) of all staff to be involved in the audit team, including the position of each staff and their role in the team.  CVs should explicitly note relevant experience for the assurance review and include examples of previous work.

Please send your expression of interest by email:        

Adam Poulter at [email protected]  and copy Aditi Ghosh at [email protected], Jagkrapan Janchatree at [email protected]

Deadline for proposals:   29 June 2018