Deadline: Ongoing
Location: Niamey, Niger
Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) has announced a call for applications for the position of Country Finance Manager.
The NGO provides assistance through building emergency shelters, distributing non-food items, assisting in the management of camps for displaced persons or providing logistical support as well as information management services to the humanitarian community.
Responsibilities
- Ensure timely and accurate data entries in cashbook, bankbook and SAGA, following the standard descriptions defined in ACTED’s Global Finance Procedure Manual
- Verify and coordinate the monthly compilation accounts from each area
- Supervise cash and bank balance, checking process when closing the monthly accounts
- Communicate accounts on a monthly basis to headquarters, respecting SAGA procedures and deadlines in line with the monthly accounting schedule as per ACTED’s finance procedures
- Manage the presentation, circulation, filing of vouchers and archiving of accounting and financial documents in compliance with FLAT and finance procedures
- Review on a random basis quality and compliance of documentation from areas when centralising
- Supervise the yearly and midyear accounting closures for both general and analytical accountancy aspects
- Ensure justified bank selection process, and open/close bank accounts under the authority of the CEO
- Oversee the management of bank accounts
- Supervise the management of safes and cash
- Assess monthly cash-flow needs for projects and areas, fill and share the form A4.01_Cash Request on the 15th of each month
- Manage money transfers, area’s cash-supply and amounts in circulation whilst defining payment procedures (bank transfer, cheque, cash, etc.)
- Make sure donors are invoiced on time and report it through the tool A4.04_ATROCE, comply with good practices described in the ‘Money In Acted House Plan’
- Collect visas of authorised staff members, set up commitment ceiling in local currencies, define methods and timescales for payment
- Before commitment/payment of any expenditure, check authorisation levels, budget availability, budget line on which the expense is to be allocated to, ensuring full compliance with ACTED and donors’ procedures
- In close coordination with the country logistics manager or equivalent, negotiate terms of contracts
- Check the receiver’s ability to endorse payment
- Carry out other tasks as assigned
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Finance or a related area
- Three years of solid experience in financial management and monitoring systems, preferably handling large development programmes, possibly complemented by academic expertise
- Excellent financial and analytical skills
- Excellent communication and drafting skills for effective reporting on programme financial performance
- Ability to manage a financial/monitoring team and demonstrate leadership
- Ability to monitor and evaluate financial and monitoring skills of communities through capacity-building efforts
- Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility
- Familiarity with the aid system, and understanding of donor and governmental requirements
- Prior knowledge of the region will be a plus
- Ability to operate Microsoft Word, Excel and Project Management applications
To apply and for more information, click here.
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