Deadline: 13 October, 2021
Location: Mekelle, Ethiopia
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking to fill the role of Finance and Administration Officer.
WFP works to ensure the most vulnerable populations, especially women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Responsibilities
- Assist corporate finance and admin resource management strategies and major ongoing programmatic initiatives
- Support the development of sub-office-specific plans and processes aligned with the country, regional and wider WFP strategy, policies and processes
- Provide input and analyse budgets for the emergency operation according to established corporate procedures and requirements, ensuring availability of funds on sub-office fund reservations as well as participating in any budget revisions
- Prepare bank reconciliation statement, disbursements, clearance of receivables, cash advances and monthly financial closures in accordance with corporate requirements, ensuring timely submission to the head of finance and administration in Tigray
- Assist and support colleagues, act as a point of referral and support them with their queries related to finance and administration
- Follow standard emergency preparedness practices to ensure WFP is able to quickly respond and deploy food, cash and needed resources to affected areas
- Maintain awareness of corporate finance and administration for major ongoing programmatic initiatives
- Collect data for budgets and carry out forecasting for new and ongoing projects according to established corporate procedures and requirements
- Deliver and support administrative services, working with contractors and following standard processes to provide cost-effective, quality and timely services to WFP staff
- Provide input to the delivery of financial controls and insight into WFP performance, supporting periodic risk and internal control assessments
- Carry out other relevant tasks, as assigned
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Finance, Business/Public Administration, Accounting, Engineering or a related field, or first degree with additional years of related work experience or training
- Three years, minimum, of senior professional experience in finance and admin with interest in international humanitarian development
- Fluency in oral and written English
- Fluency in local language (desirable)
To apply and for more information, click here.
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