African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) Project Accountant JOb Vacancy

African Population and Health Research Center
Promoting the well-being of Africans through policy-relevant research on population and health

Project Accountant

APHRC would want to recruit a Project Accountant to mainly work in its Research Capacity Strengthening program.

The program is currently focusing on strengthening doctoral training in Africa.

Currently close to 100 doctoral students are being supported together with several partner institutions and universities.

The project accountant will be responsible for the accountability of disbursed funds both to the students and partners.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide essential support to the project staff to attain maximum impact of the program by ensuring cost effective utilisation of resources (financial and otherwise).
  • Strict monitoring of the projects expenditure against the budgets and providing frequent feedback to the project managers and project staff on budget matters.
  • Review field imprest/staff travel advance ensuring adherence to set procedures.
  • Review students (doctoral training programme) and partner institutions expenditure accounting and preparation of subsequent disbursements.
  • Monitoring project expenditure to ensure they are in line with donors' agreements.
  • Preparation of donor financial reports and proposal budgets
  • Work-with the external auditors on project audits
Requirements
  • Bachelors degree and CPA (K) or its equivalent
  • At least 3 years experience in a similar position
  • Excellent skills in Ms Excel and familiarity with accounting software preferably Microsoft Dynamics
Candidates who meet the requirements above should submit their applications enclosing a detailed CV, quoting current and expected remuneration and providing contact details of three referees (at least one of whom must be a current/ former employer) to the address below.

Online applications should be sent to jobs@aphrc.org.

Please, indicate 'Project Accountant" on the subject line of the email application or on the envelope.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Deadline for receiving applications is September 06, 2010.

The Human Resources Manager
African Population and Health Research Center
P.O. Box 10787-00100 GPO, Nairobi
www.aphrc.org

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