Finance Officer job at Save The Children
Job Description
Hiring organization: Save The Children International Ethiopia
Job title: Finance Officer
Classification: Finance
Employee Type: Full-time regular
Salary: As per scale of organization and competitive benefit packages like medical insurance
Deadline: March 09, 2023
Job Category: Business Support
Why you should join the Save the Children Team…
Save the Children International Ethiopia offers competitive benefits that include health, and life insurances, disability coverage, annual leave, personal sick leave, and paternal leave
About Save the Children:
Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In Ethiopia we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.
Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.
We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
Dimensions: Save the Children works in Ethiopia with a current staff complement of approximately 2500 staff and current expenditure of approximately $100+ million each year.
Child Safeguarding:
Level 3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people
Main duties:
Supplier Payments
- Receive Payment Requests and supporting documents
- Review Supporting documents for all payments
- Check Coding of Payment Requests
- Preparation Payment Voucher in Integrated software
- Preparation of Cheque of Bank transfer documentation
- Coordinate approvals of cheques/bank transfers
- Make payments to suppliers
General Ledger registration
- Prepare GLACOS for all payment vouchers
- Review GLACOS to identify coding errors
- Prepare other GLACOs for corrections and other month end entries as directed by Finance Coordinator.
- Prepare General Ledger and Cash Offline Spread sheet (GLACOS) for all transactions that has to be review and posted by the Finance Coordinator.
- Reviewing and reconciling working and travel advance on daily bases
Month End Processes
- Receive accruals request as necessary
- Review all accruals requests for sufficient supporting documentation
- Prepare accruals GLACOS as necessary for month end of Award Closure
Cash Transfer Programming
- Advice CTP team on necessary documentation for Cash transfer programming
- Perform reconciliations between Supplier records and field records.
- Ensuring documentation archived once distribution payments done to supplier.
Document retention and audit
- File vouchers once payment complete
- Search for documents to support audits as necessary
Other
- Prepare Supporting documentations for transfers Field Office Bank Accounts
Job requirements:
BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice) Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in a related subject or equivalent accounting qualification (can be in progress)
- Good computer skills especially in spreadsheet & data analysis (excel) and familiarity with accounting software is preferred.
- Good proficiency in spoken and written English
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Recommended 2+ years of relevant work experience.
- Previous experience working in payments department
- Good sense of responsibility, and commitment to confidentiality.
- Excellent organizing & communications skills
- Ability and willingness to change work practices and hours, and work with incoming teams in the event of major emergencies
- Commitment to and understanding of Save the Children’s aims, values and principles including rights-based approaches.
Desirable
- Proficiency in spoken and written English an advantage
- Experience of Agresso Financial Management software
- Experience of working with major donors to International NGOs
Additional job responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.
Equal Opportunities
The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI’s global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Gender Equality Policies, supported by relevant procedures.
Child Safeguarding:
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
Safeguarding our Staff:
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy
Location: FO - Semera
How to apply:
If you are interested in the post and feel that you are suitable for the role then attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations through the below link
https://hcri.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/requisitions/preview/162/?location=Ethiopia&locationId=300000000345034&locationLevel=country&mode=location
