Duty Station: Makeni

Reporting to: Finance Manager - Caritas Makeni

Position/Title: Finance Officer

The Finance officer manages the day-to-day operations of the projects, responsible for cash processing and record-keeping of the day-to-day transactions following the Caritas Makeni financial policy and reporting procedures. Specific responsibilities are as follows.

Main responsibilities

· Assisting in the preparation of budgets for different projects and development interventions in compliance with donor regulations.

· Managing records and receipts of current projects carried out by Caritas Makeni.

· Reconciling daily, monthly, and yearly transactions in line with financial policy of the institution.

· Preparing balance sheets for internal and external auditing on semi-annual basis.

· Supporting the Finance Manager with projects and tasks when required.

· Ensuring compliance with financial management rules, regulations, and policies, including anti-fraud policies of Caritas Makeni and the Government are maintained at all times.

· Preparing all payments, cash withdrawal by the bank, and clearing payment advances in a timely manner.

· Undertaking all transactions at the bank (preparing transfers, receiving bank debit and credit advice, bank statements every month, or as required by project team management).

· Coordinating with the cashier to record all receipt vouchers, payments paid in cash to the ledger.

· Performing cost allocation of accounts to put into vouchers.

· Entering all payment vouchers, receipt vouchers on daily basis to QuickBooks.

· Assisting to Finance Manager for monthly closing report.

· Preparing and assisting reconciliation of bank and cash data.

· Ensuring accounting documents/files for audit are appropriately and safely stored.

- Hold a university degree in Accounting and Finance or financial management.

- Provide at least three years of experience in a similar role, desirable to be in the NGO sector.

- In-depth knowledge of financial regulations and accounting processes for project management.

- Outstanding analytical and time management skills.

-Experience using financial software (QuickBooks and WINPACCS desirable as well).

- Strong Ethics, with an ability to manage confidential data in a responsible manner.

- Strong attention to detail.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Extensive knowledge in the usage of Microsoft Office package (Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

- Knowledge of conducting online meetings with fellow financial officers in other workstations and financial supervisors abroad.

Application guidelines:

Kindly send your CV to nekinpalmer22@gmail.com by February 1st, 2022. Subject line of the application email should be: Position/Name of Applicant and date of submission in format dd/mm/yyyy.