About
the role
To
support the finance manager with all financial affairs of the office and
programme, including inputing of data in an efficient, accurate and timely
manner. Likely to operate in one office with limited supervision. To prepare
financial documentation including payments, petty cash reimbursement , petty
cash advances and all staff floats. To ensure efficient and accurate cash and
bank books and the timely preparation of monthly accounts and returns. To
ensure efficient, accurate and timely collation of finance information
requested by senior colleagues.To extract reports from the financial and
administration systems to review the status of the budget and the adherence to
financial policies and procedures.To ensure accurate maintance of the asset
management system.
Key outcomes
- Cash, bank books and other
financial documentation maintained in an accurate and timely manner
- Accurate payments made to suppliers
and staff.
- Accurate and timely posting of
transactions into Christian Aid Accounting system
- Team player during month end
closure processes.
- A complete set of scanned vouchers
filled on the intranet and accessible to the relevant stakeholders in the
organisation in addition to maintaining a good physical filing system.
- A well-managed petty cash imprest
system.
- Asset Register is accurately
maintained and updated.
- Christian Aid and donor financial
policies and procedures are complied with.
- Successful team player during
partner expenditure verification.
- Susscefully givig support in
handling external audits to allow for timely completion of all audit
angagements.
- Good relations with third parties ,
suppliers and partners are maintained through positive communication.
Person specification
Essential
- The role holder will be qualified
to at least degree level (or equivalent) and part qualified member of a
recognised accounting organisation – CPA, ACCA
- Role holder will be a person of
high integrity and who exhibits self-leadership, decisiveness and teamwork
in day to day ways of working.
- Knowledge of financial standards
required by donors, local financial standards and legal framework
- Experience working with financial
accounting procedures of writing and reviewing financial reports, creating
and monitoring budgets and working with compliance regulations.
- Experience with using excel and
word processing packages and other account reporting tools
Desirable
- Knowledge of vaious donor
requirements e.g DFID, EU, USAID.
- Knowledge of local partners/NGOs
and development.
- Experience of dealing with
institutional donor fund accounting.
- Experience of using computerised
financial reporting tools.
- Part-qualified IFAC accountant and
training related qualification
How To Apply