Job Vacancies @ Brac Sierra Leone – Regional Accountants (x3)
A career with BRAC Sierra Leone
With over 100,000 employees reaching an estimated 135 million people, BRAC is the world’s largest non-governmental organization.
BRAC is a development success story, spreading anti-poverty solutions born in Bangladesh to 9 other developing countries in Asia and Africa, making it a global leader in providing opportunities for the world’s poor.
With a holistic approach that uses a wide array of tools including microfinance, education, healthcare, legal services and more, BRAC invests in communities’ own human and material resources, catalyzing lasting change and creating an ecosystem in which the poor have the chance to seize control of their own lives. Of the world’s top development and humanitarian relief organizations, BRAC is one of the few based in the global South. BRAC International is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individuals to fill up the following position:
Position: AIM Regional Accountants
Duty Station: Waterloo, Bo & Makeni Area Offices
Number of Positions: 3
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 getting a keeper for BRAC finance internal control system, managing financial documents, managing accounts posting, reporting on the financial information at the regional level, and assisting the AIM finance manager on a demand basis for any additional information required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate cash payment requests and ensure the fund balance as per program need weekly and monthly.
- Analyze and code financial transactions
- Prepare journal vouchers with complete entries and present them for approval
- Manage and oversee filing and documentation 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 the cost accounting method
- Check and collect bank statements, credit advice and debt advice on a weekly bases
- Checks the sequence of the voucher system and scans all the vouchers along with the supporting and keeps them in 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 and need to transfer to the Control
- Perform bank reconciliation on monthly basis and send it to the AIM finance manager
- Monitor the cash position of the regional office and request the cash from the country office for wire transfer
Person Specifications:
- Computer proficiency in 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 of 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, and encourage others to do so.
Educational Requirements:
First Degree in Accounting and Finance, business administration / related field
Experience Requirements:
- At least 3 years of working experience in MFI, Bank, or NGO in the 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 bimcf.sierraleone@brac.net OR by hand to our Head Office 43 Freetown Road, Lumley.
PLEASE MENTION THE NAME OF THE POSITION IN THE SUBJECT LINE
Only complete applications will be accepted and shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Application deadline: 23 August 2022
Women are strongly encouraged to app
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