🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ BRAC Sierra Leone – Regional Accountant

Career with BRAC Sierra Leone 

BRAC is an award-winning international non-governmental development organisation, with the vision of a world free from all forms of exploitation and discrimination, where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potential. BRAC is a leader in developing and implementing cost-effective, evidence-based programmes to assist poor and disadvantaged communities in low-income countries, including in conflict-prone and post-disaster settings. It is an organisation of and for the people of the Global South, pioneering new development and social enterprise approaches to equip communities to achieve prosperity. As well as being the world’s biggest NGO by number of staff and people directly reached, BRAC has regularly been ranked the number one NGO in the world by the Geneva-based NGO Advisor, an independent organisation committed to highlighting innovation, impact and governance in the non-profit sector. BRAC retained the top spot in 2020 among the top 500 NGOs for the fifth consecutive year.

BRAC was founded in Bangladesh in 1972 by Sir Fazle Hasan Abed. It started its first programme outside of Bangladesh in Afghanistan in 2002 and has since reached millions of people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa. BRAC has a holistic approach to development that uses a wide array of programmes and social enterprises, including in microfinance, education, health, agriculture, gender, and human rights. BRAC believes that every person has inherent potential, and when an enabling environment is created and that potential is unleashed, even the poorest can become agents of positive change in their own lives, for their families and their communities.

About the Programme:

In 2022, the Mastercard Foundation in partnership with BRAC International (BI) announced an initiative that will create a positive and measurable impact for 1.2 million adolescent girls and young women and 9.5 million people across seven countries in East and West Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.

There is mounting urgency to support adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living in poverty, which has been further amplified by the global pandemic. Through this partnership, scalable economic development approaches will be delivered in communities to foster the agency and voice of AGYW. They will have the opportunity to fulfill their aspirations, achieve sustainable livelihoods, and engage in advocacy issues.

BRAC Sierra Leone NGO has implemented an integrated and holistic model to address the various life cycles of a young woman living in poverty, ensuring she is able to transition safely from adolescence to adulthood. She will be equipped with the appropriate skills, tools, and access to finance to effectively exercise her agency and build a fulfilling and productive livelihood.

BRAC Sierra Leone NGO is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill the following position in Sierra Leone NGO.

Purpose:

The purpose of this position: Responsible for all the accounting of the AIM financial operation in the regional office. The position holder is generally responsible for get keeper for BRAC finance internal control system, manage financial documents, manage accounts posting, report on the financial information at the regional level, and assist the AIM finance manager on demand basis for any additional information required.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Facilitate cash payment requests and ensure the fund balance as per program need by weekly and monthly.
• Analyze and code financial transactions
• Prepare journal vouchers with complete entries and present for approval
• Manage and oversee filing and documentations as completeness and timeliness
• Post transactions into accounting online software on a daily basis
• Perform monthly accounts reconciliation including (A/R, A/P, Bank, Cash, Prepayments, etc.)
• Due consideration of double entries in cost accounting method
• Check and collect bank statements, credit advice and debit advice on a weekly bases
• Checks the sequence of the voucher system and scan all the vouchers along with the supporting and keep in the Google drive on daily basis. Keep ledger Up To Date and identify abnormal balances and take corrective reconciliation
• At least 15 days travel for field visit from Area office to Branch Offices.
• Ensure transaction descriptions are posted only according to the standardized form
• Ensure end of the month all the noncash amounts should not keep in the project need to transfer to Control
• Perform bank reconciliation on monthly basis and send to the AIM finance manager
• Monitor the cash position of the regional office and request cash from the country office for wire transfer

Person Specifications:

• Computer proficiency on MS office.
• Skill in any accounting software.
• Strong interpersonal/ communication skills.
• Proven experience in the double entry accounting system.
• Well informed in current financial subjects, tax laws, money market and business environment.

Safeguarding:

•  Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational Requirements:

• First Degree in Accounting and Finance, business administration / related field

Experience Requirements: 

• At least 3 years working experience in MFI, Bank, NGO in financial sector.
• Hands on experience with statistical analysis.

If you feel you are the right match for the above-mentioned position, please follow the application instructions accordingly:

Candidates need to email their CV with a letter of interest mentioning educational grades and years of experience at [email protected]

PLEASE MENTION THE NAME OF POSITION IN THE SUBJECT LINE

Only complete applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline: 19th September 2023

Women are strongly encouraged to apply.