Finance and Grants Officer- AQBE Project ( Afghan Nationals Only )

Job Description

- Ensuring that documentation is accurate, authorised, and complete for all financial transactions. - Maintaining easily accessible (physical and online) filing systems for all cash, bank, and general ledger vouchers. - Reviewing bank and cashbooks for all expenditure and income to ensure that they are correctly coded. - Ensuring that all income and expenditure is adequately authorized prior to uploading in the system. - Ensuring that the IRC financial procedures for Bank and Cash are always followed. - Passing of correction/Adjustment journals in the system - Uploading the approved Partner data into SUN/Integra. - Checking all the transactions are entered correctly - Ensure accounts and transactions are regularly allocated - Carry out all month-end closures steps in consultation with CO Finance - Ensure timely closure of monthly accounts including balance sheets transactions related to projects - Maintain month end closure check list and ensure that it is closely followed. - Carrying out bank/Cash and B/S reconciliations in consultation with CO Finance - Ensuring all data is fully booked in the systems. Partner payments duly recorded, and tracker maintained for payments and expenses. Supporting FGM in partner monthly/Quarterly reconciliations - Support Partners in completing their month end requirements. Provide feedback and training on reporting to these locations. Maintain a tracker to monitor Partner submissions. - Support the Finance Manager in preparation of the Monthly Control Checklist (MCC) and the Monthly Financial Review Reports - Prepare and review all balance sheet control accounts with an emphasis on the monitoring of accounts; Intercompany, Accruals, statutory liabilities, Cash in Transit, Prepayments, Staff Advances and Programme Advances. - Liaise with CO Finance to ensure codes for the project are kept up to date (Staff, Projects, Partners, Suppliers, Assets, Property etc.) - Uploading budgets in the financial system in consultation with CO Finance - Ensure the uploaded information is correct - Creation of new accounting codes as required. - With the support from the finance manager organise training on the IRC accounting systems to both Partner’s and non-financial staff - Any other job relevant duty assigned by direct supervisor

Qualifications

- 2-3 years of finance experience (finance management); - USAID-specific budgeting and finance experience preferred, plus INGOs - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, master’s degree is preferable in finance. - Excellent communication and coordination skills - Excellent communication skills in Pashto and Dari. - Wiling to travel and conduct field visits regularly.