The African Population and Health
Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, nongovernmental
organization that carries out high quality, policy relevant research on
population, health and education issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.
The Center seeks to contract a Financial Accountant (Temporary
Position) on fulltime basis to provide leave coverage for
three months.
Responsibilities
1) Payments Recording
- Ensuring payment documents are properly
supported and duly approved during posting .This includes checking whether
all expenditures have project allocation.
- Posting allocation of stationery, printing,
photocopying and other shared resources allocations to projects.
- Preparation of report for Payment Vouchers and
cheques to ensure that they are all accounted for.
2) Financial Reporting & General
Finance
- Providing support for financial transactions
for project reporting as necessary.
- Ensuring proper filling and maintenance of
accounting record.
3) Bank Reconciliations
- Preparation of bank reconciliations. The bank
reconciliations have to be submitted for review by 5th of every month.
4) Payroll – Consultants Fees
Processing
- Preparation of field staff fees payments
ensuring they are properly approved and supported and processing them
through Flexi-Personnel Ltd.
5) VAT and Withholding Tax
- Making payment for VAT and withholding tax and
making sure returns are filed as per the statutory deadlines.
Requirements
- Bachelors’ degree in a relevant field plus
final professional qualification (e.g CPA K, ACCA).
- At least three years post qualification
experience in a similar position.
- Excellent skills in MS Excel.
- Experience in Navision (MS Dynamics)
accounting software preferred.
This is a three months
contract.
The position is to be filled immediately.
Applications are to be sent online to jobs@aphrc.org, please indicate position applied for on the subject line.
