Post Title: Senior Finance Officer
Duty Station: Nairobi
Duration: 1 year
No of Positions: 1
Closing Date: 24th May 2013
Availability: ASAP
Job Purpose
Provides
financial information to management by researching and analyzing
accounting data; preparing reports and maintaining a strong internal
control environment.
Duties:
- Maintain
accounting/internal control systems, discuss and recommend improvements
to policies and procedures, ensuring accuracy of accounting data and
performing internal audit for MercyUSA.
- Coordinate donor
financial reporting and reconciling donor reports with QuickBooks
reports on regular basis. Proactively liquidate donor advances and put
funds requests for different projects to ensure smooth implementation of
Mercy USA programs.
- Keep custody,
understand and implement grant agreements/contracts requirements and
further organize training for finance and non-finance staff on the
requirements of donor agreements and ensure that such requirements are
also established within the organization’s internal control systems.
- Coordinate government
and government agents’ returns including tax remittances, quarterly and
yearly returns and NGO Board returns.
- Follow up with Logistics regarding in-kind donation materials and agreements.
- Substantiate financial transactions by confirming all supporting documentations.
- Liaising with External auditors and answering queries on financial matters.
- Performing reconciliations for all bank and cash accounts..
- Ensuring Interbank transfers are done accurately and reconciled on monthly basis.
- Build the capacity of Sub offices by undertaking training needs analysis and organizing trainings for finance staff.
- Provide day to day support to the sub offices
- Carry out other duties as required and requested by the Finance Director
Job Requirements
- University degree in
Bachelor of Commerce Accounting option or other business related field
with extensive experience in financial management preferably with INGO
in a busy office.
- Holder of CPA 2 minimum.
- Hands on experience with quick books and/or other financial software.
- Well developed interpersonal and team skills and proven ability to be flexible in demanding situations.
- Strategic thinking and management
- Ability to work both independently, and as part of a team.
- Ability to work on own initiative and with minimal supervision.
- Computer literate with fluency of Microsoft Word, Excel, internet and email packages
- Good communication skills
- Report writing-ability to analyse and interpret data and write reports to a high technical standard
- Problem solving skills
Application procedures
Interested candidates should submit their application material to Mercy USA Human Resource Department: wnjiru@mercyusa.org
Applications shall be reviewed as received, deadline by close of business Friday, May 24th 2013
This should include:
1.
Email subject should be “Application for Senior Finance Officer ”Cover
letter clearly summarizing your experience as it pertains to this
joband Curriculum Vitae with three professional references (as one
document).
Please do not attach copies of Certificates….
2. Failure to adhere to the above shall result in application rejection
