Finance Assistant
The United States
Embassy – Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Kenya has a vacancy in Nairobi for
Finance Assistant.
Incumbent maintains tracking system for all Donor Assistance (DA)-1 forms with relevant Government of Kenya officials to ensure timeliness in securing tax exemption. Also assists with budgetary analysis of CDC
Kenya implementing partners’ program budgets.
The job requires high organizational skills to ensure that records for all partners’ tax claims are well documented and easily accessible for update reports on tax exemption status.
The work is highly
complex and can be of high stakes to implementing partners in terms of what
will be considered as allowable costs and unallowable costs in their award
funds.
Requirements:
- Bachelors
degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Finance or Accounting is
required.
- Five
(5) years progressive responsible experience in dealing with national,
international or non-governmental financial management system, customs
work, clearing and forwarding or national tax policies.
- At
least 3 years experience as a supervisor in financial or accounting work
is also required.
- Level
IV (Fluent) English
ability is required. Level III Kiswahili ability also required. - Must
possess standard word processing and spreadsheets skills.
Those fulfilling the requirements of the position should submit
on line application to the following link:
http://americanembassy.myjobsinkenya.com before March 28, 2013.