Vacancy: Finance Assistant - South Sudan Country Office
Based in Nairobi, Kenya
Organisation: Caritas
Switzerland is committed to a world that is guided by solidarity, justice and
peace and in which the inviolable dignity and the rights of every human being
are respected.
We provide professional,
effective and efficient help to people in need and in poverty, regardless of
their political or religious beliefs, gender or ethnicity.
The aim of all programmes is
to reduce the poverty suffered by marginalised people, to ensure that their
rights are respected, to reduce people’s vulnerability and to enable them to
develop sustainable life strategies through social integration and access to
natural resources, institutions, infrastructure and capital.
In line with the idea of the
Social Development Goals that such goals are not only relevant for developing
countries, but for all countries worldwide, Caritas Switzerland works both in
Switzerland and abroad.
Position: Finance Assistant
Reporting to: Back
Office Manager South Sudan Country Programme
Duration: Six months
Location: Kenya Country Office, Nairobi
Key tasks &
responsibilities
- Checking
correctness and completeness of receipts and vouchers
- Entering
receipts and data into Sextant-Field software (bookkeeping)
- Filing of
financial documents
- Supporting
reconciliation of cash book and bank books with data entered into the
Sextant-Field
- Producing
monthly and project statements from Sextant-Field software to ensure
accuracy
- Generating
Sextant-Field detailed trial balance (DTB) reports and internal
controlling reports
Essential requirements &
qualifications
- University
degree in accounting or business administration
- At least three
years’ work experience as Finance Assistant and/or similar position
preferably with NGOs
- Excellent
written and oral communication skills in English
- Proven
effective and hands-on approach to accounting
- Advanced level
in computer literacy, e.g. familiar with variety of bookkeeping software
- Accountable and
trustworthy with good interpersonal skills and sensitivity to various
cultural values
Contract start: 15.11.2016
Application
If you feel you fit the
required profile, please let us know how your qualifications, experience and
career ambitions match the requirements of this position.
Send your application latest
by 04.11.2016 to jobs.nairobi@caritas.chindicating
Finance Assistant in the subject line and label all your attached files with
your full name and document title.
Please provide a Curriculum Vitae (CV) that contains details of your qualifications, experience, present position, current remuneration, earliest date of availability, names and telephone contacts of three referees, two of which should include your previous and current direct supervisors.
Only shortlisted candidates
will be contacted.