🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ GIZ Sierra Leone – Accounting Specialist

EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION PROGRAMME 

A project | programme funded by the EU and German Government and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

Sustainable, innovative, effective

GIZ offers customized solutions to complex challenges. We are an experienced service provider and assist the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation. We offer demand-driven, tailor-made, and effective services for sustainable development.

GIZ GmbH is supporting the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development of the Government of Sierra Leone in the implementation of the Employment Promotion Programme (EPP). The overall objective is to create employment for the younger generation through business development in the agricultural and other sectors and to enhance the employability of young people in the but not limited to rural areas of Falaba, Kailahun, Kono and Koinadugu. Our approach is gender and inclusion oriented.

Women are strongly encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to women with equal experience, comparable education, and test scores.

As this position comes with important technical responsibility, we only ask candidates to apply who meet, exceed, or come very close to the following requirements. Please read the job advertisement carefully, especially the exclusion criteria. All applications must be written electronically and include a covering letter (1 page), a clearly chronologically structured CV (education first, then professional career starting with the last position), reference contacts and certificates. Non-compliance leads to exclusion from the application process.

1. Responsibilities 

The Accounting Specialist provides support in

• Ensuring internal EPP operational accounting in Kono office
• Assisting the Accounting Specialist and Finance Manager in all aspect of accounting and financial

transactions.

• Preparing vouchers for final processing in the Country Office.
• Assisting the Accounting Specialist to follow-up on liabilities and receivables.
• Ensuring the safe keeping of all receipts, contracts, invoices, and bank statements

for audit purposes.

• Supporting and supervising implementing partners to comply with GIZ accounting

Procedures and financial reporting.

• Assisting EPP staff in Freetown and the District Offices with the preparation of budgets, vouchers,

and disbursement requests.

The accounting professional performs the following tasks: 

2. Tasks 

The accounting professional

• Liaising / Contact person with GIZ regional offices for all financial matters and support with their banks
• Prepare and validate all Project income and expenditure vouchers ensuring account coding is correct, approved budget exist, balances outstanding on the budget lines sufficient and that all financial documents correct
• Preparation & follow up of monthly budgets to receive funds from CO
• Prepare accurate bank reconciliation with the bank statements of EPP journals in Kono Office, ensuring complete supporting documents are properly filed in the correct journal
• Carries out bank book and cash book (petty cash) accounting on the basis of winpaccs programme, responsible for all payments to suppliers by bank, cash and transfer
• Follow up and clearing of receivable, payable by EPP
• Preparing vouchers for final processing
• Calculations and disbursement of EPP staff & Partners for travel claims payments in the designated district
• Verifies correction of vouchers in compliance of GIZ finance procedures
• Maintain proper and confidential filing of all EPP bank statements and vouchers
• Signature of arithmetically correctness on the voucher stamp
• Contact person for Bank accounts of EPP in Kono and receiving credit advise
• Working closely with District Coordinator and District Secretary
• Guiding procurement and liaising with suppliers for payments and assurance of right payment methods and document.
• Responsible for IC and Error sheet feedback and contact person for IC/Internal/External audit

Other duties/additional 

• Performs other duties and task at the request of the Supervisor

3. Required qualifications, competences, and experience Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting/banking and finance or financial services (Exclusion Criteria).
• Proven experience working as an Accountant/Finance officer in NGO or Development sector for at least 5 years (Exclusion Criteria).
• Additional certification in the field of Accounting and Finance will be given advantage
• Good working knowledge of ITC technologies (accounting software) and computer

applications (e.g., MS Office, especially in MS Excel, Outlook, and Teams)

Other knowledge, additional competences 

• Willingness and ability to work in remote areas of Sierra Leone
• Good communication skills in English
• Team player that can coordinate with other staff members.
• Strong pro-active self-starter who likes to fix issues
• Committed to deadlines and goal-oriented person.
• Committed to stringent accounting process and procedures by GIZ
• Committed to stringent anti-corruption procurement rules
• Willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding

measures are agreed with the supervisor.

Mode of Application:

Suitable candidates are invited to apply not later than 05.04.2023 to the email address [email protected]  Only applicants shortlisted will be contacted for an interview.

GIZ-Sierra Leone is an equal-opportunity employer, and therefore women are strongly encouraged to apply.