Reference: 9268 AV
Consultant: Anneke Viviers
Job Description:
- Accounting Management for Accounts Payable including reviewing and approving payments
- Prepare, review, reconcile and analyze accounting records and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Oversee the efficiencies of the accounting systems in line with best practice as well as oversee the implementation of relevant policies and controls.
- Conduct annual internal audit reviews on project accounting processes and systems and follow up on suggested enhancements and corrective measures. These reviews will require travel to African countries where projects are implemented.
- Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
- Oversee financial management of projects and report to management regarding the finances of their projects.
- Oversee and manage budgets, preparing reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
- A competitive salary package will be negotiated, based on qualifications and experience.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years in the financial sector, but with excellent financial management and internal auditing track record.
- Experience with managing programmes with multiple donors.
- Experience with institutional financial reporting practices – in particular rules and procedures (will be highly advantageous)
- Good communicator and ability to build/work with a diverse multi-disciplinary team and, crucially, to always embrace and embody the culture and values.
- Technologically astute, with ability to establish strong KPI frameworks both for self- measurement and portfolio performance.
- Bachelor’s Degree in appropriate field of study.
- Audit background and articles completed CAA preferable.
- Experience with creating financial statements.
- Excellent accounting software user and administration skills.
- Accuracy and attention to detail.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
