Vacancy: Program Accountant
Nairobi, Kenya
The International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI) seeks to recruit a Program Accountant to provide
financial and administrative support including but not limited to preparation
of donor reports for grants within the Animal Biosciences Program.
ILRI works with partners worldwide to enhance the roles that livestock play in
food security and poverty alleviation, principally in Africa and Asia.
The outcomes of these
research partnerships help people in developing countries keep their farm
animals’ alive and productive, increase and sustain their livestock and farm
productivity, find profitable markets for their animal products, and reduce the
risk of livestock-related diseases.
ILRI is a not-for-profit institution with a staff of about 700 and in 2016, an operating budget of about USD83 million. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre, working for a food-secure future.
ILRI is a not-for-profit institution with a staff of about 700 and in 2016, an operating budget of about USD83 million. ILRI is a CGIAR research centre, working for a food-secure future.
ILRI has its headquarters in
Nairobi, Kenya, a principal campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and offices in
other countries in East, West and Southern Africa and in South, Southeast and
East Asia.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Accounting, Project Management and Donor reporting
- Develop and
maintain appropriate databases to ensure project financial management is
done to meet various program financial demands
- Prepare all
projects payment requests for sub-grantees in collaboration with Program
Management Officer (PMO) and Project Leaders
- Follow up with
finance to ensure timely payments to sub-grantees and ensure transfer
advices are shared with partners
- Ensure project
partners’ financial returns are submitted. Review advance requests and
financial returns by partners with reference to contractual obligations
and partner financial obligations liquidation effected in the One
Corporate System (OCS)
- Prepare
detailed monthly, quarterly and annual internal financial reports as
requested by PMO highlighting issues on over/under expenditure and
adjustment of wrong postings in the system and also to facilitate
monitoring and tracking of project finances, and decision making by
Project leaders
- Maintain proper
financial and project records of projects both soft and hard.
- Prepare donor
financial reports/statement in collaboration with PMO, Project Leaders and
Finance department and maintain appropriate compliance donor reporting
databases
- Compute project
accruals annually and during project close outs and ensure they are
captured in the system
- Raise invoices
& follow up reimbursements and transfer advices from partners/donors
- Lead project
specific audit and support external/internal audit as may be found
necessary
- Support annual
budget preparation by working with PMO
2. Proposal development-
Budget development
- Participate in
meetings during proposal development
- Provide advise
especially in unit costs etc. towards development of proposal budgets
- Prepare
proposal budgets for review by PMO and Project Leader
- Upload project
budgets to the OCS System.
3. Project Settlements
Reports, Travel Expense Reports, TAs, Requisitions
- Review Project
Settlements Reports, Travel Expense Reports and TAs
- Review of all
TORs for Program staff and consultants before approval by project leaders.
Ensure that all support documents have been attached /provided for
Requirements
- Bachelor of
commerce (Finance option), Master of Business Administration (Finance
option) will be an added advantage.
- Full accounting
qualifications CPA (K) or ACCA
- Experience with
Projects Accounting
- Minimum of
three years of relevant working experience
- Good personal
organizational skills, accuracy and attention to detail
- Good
communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly
effective multi-tasking skills, with ability to coordinate, prioritize and
organize workload and meet deadlines
Terms of Appointment: This is a Nationally Recruited Staff (NRS) position based at
ILRI’s Nairobi campus. It is open to Kenyan nationals only. The position is on
a 3-year contract, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and
availability of funding.
Job Level: This position is job level 2C, ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes; pension, medical and other insurances for ILRI’s Nationally Recruited Staff.
How to apply:
Job Level: This position is job level 2C, ILRI offers a competitive salary and benefits package which includes; pension, medical and other insurances for ILRI’s Nationally Recruited Staff.
How to apply:
Applicants should send a
cover letter and CV explaining their interest in the position, what they can
bring to the job and the names and addresses (including telephone and email) of
three referees who are knowledgeable about the candidate’s professional
qualifications and work experience to the Director, People and Organizational
Development by CLICKING HERE before 19 December 2016.
We thank all applicants for their interest in working for ILRI. Due to the volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ILRI does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing or training). ILRI also does not concern itself with information on applicants' bank accounts.
To find out more about ILRI, visit our websites at http://www.ilri.org/
To find out more about working at ILRI visit our website at http://www.ilri.org/ilricrowd/
ILRI is an equal opportunity employer.