Job Description
General Objective
- The Finance assistant will have to assist Finance Officer/Manager in all the activities related to finance and cash management.
Responsibilities and Tasks
Treasury & Cash Follow-up
- Manage the cashbox and ensure the safe keeping of cashbox
- Process receipts and invoices for cash payments
- Do daily physical inventory of the cashbox with the Finance Officer
- Ensure the daily worker payments
- Prepare and follow up the pay-outs and cash advances, within established guidelines
- Guarantee security of the cashbox and confidentiality of information.
Finance & Accounting Management:
- Check, before recording any entry, that the invoices are compliant with PUI’s regulations and procedures
- Record cash expenses in the excel books on a daily basis, and properly fill in the information needed (date, accounting code, project, budget code, etc.)
- Issue voucher numbers, and properly archive the invoices and Saga vouchers in dedicated files, as per the donors’ rules and regulations
- Assist in the preparation for the external audit visits (donor and coordination visits).
Archiving Finance record:
- Manage the electronic archival of Finance files as per the filing process at the base level and share the scan data with Abuja
- Manage the physical archival of Finance files as per the archiving process at the base level.
- The tasks and responsibilities defined in this job description are non-exhaustive and can evolve depending on the project’s needs.
- The employee could be requested to perform other tasks as his/her line manager may judge necessary.
Priorities of the Department:
- Be responsible of all cash payments and relevant protocols related to the base
- Ensure the accountancy hard copies quality
- Scanning of all finance documents
- Ensure that the cash security procedures are implemented and respected.
Qualifications & Required Skills
Mandatory requirements:
- Language skills: Fluent in Hausa and English, Kanuri is appreciated
- Education degree: University Degree in Finance, Accounting, or another relevant degree
- Work experience: Minimum 1 year of experience in a similar position (NGOs/private companies)
- Knowledge and skills: Good analytical and writing skills
- Computer skills: Good knowledge of the MS office software including Word, Outlook. Excellent in Excel.
Assets:
- Interests
- Strong motivation to help people in need
- Accounting and finance
- Transversal skills
- Well organized
- Ability to take initiative to deal with difficulties encountered in daily work
- Ability to adapt or change priorities according to the changing situation within a mission or the organization itself
- Autonomy, neutrality, hard worker
- Able to manage stress and pressure.