Finance Assistant

Ensure financial transactions of WAA Activities are recorded and compliant.

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Overview

Ensure financial transactions of WAA Activities are recorded and compliant.

You have:

  • BA degree in Accounting/Business Management & related fields.
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong conceptual, verbal, and written communication skills; both in English & Tigrigna.
  • Ability to initiate and organize work while establishing priorities in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment to meet deadlines with attention to detail.
  • Ability to develop strong trusting relationships in order to gain support and achieve results.
  • Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities.

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. We believe in the power and potential of every child but know this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it is girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges girls and vulnerable children face. We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood and we enable children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

For over 85 years, we have rallied other determined optimists to transform the lives of all children in more than 80 countries.

We won’t stop until we are all equal.

The Opportunity:

The position holder ensures that all financial transactions of the WAA Activities will be captured in the system before the SAP closing in each month; and facilitate training and workshop payments to the percipients. Accordingly, the position holder is responsible for coordinating and facilitating all WWA training and workshop payments in line with the donor and PIE compliance policy. The finance assistant is closely working with the WWA finance and operations lead and the program area finance department. He/she works with trustworthiness and integrity and has a clear commitment to the Plan’s core values and humanitarian principles.

The Individual:

Technical expertise, skills and knowledge

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

Qualifications/Experience Essential:

  • BA degree in Accounting/Business Management & related fields.
  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
  • Strong conceptual, verbal, and written communication skills; both in English & Tigrigna
  • Ability to initiate and organize work while establishing priorities in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment to meet deadlines with attention to detail;
  • Ability to develop strong trusting relationships in order to gain support and achieve results;
  • Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities

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Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

  • Understand and put into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC).
  • Ensure that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day to day work.
  • Ensure that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

Location: Tigray Program Area, Mekelle

Type of Role: WWA Project, Finance Assistant

Reports to: Finance and Operations lead

Grade: B2

Closing Date: July 25, 2024

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the very heart of everything that Plan International stands for.

We want Plan International to reflect the diversity of the communities we work with, offering equal opportunities to everyone regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Plan International is based on a culture of inclusivity and we strive to create a workplace environment that ensures every team, in every office, in every country, is rich in diverse people, thoughts, and ideas.

We foster an organisational culture that embraces our commitment to racial justice, gender equality, girls’ rights and inclusion.

Plan International believes that in a world where children face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we, as an organisation, do everything we can to keep children safe. This means that we have particular responsibilities to children that we come into contact with and we must not contribute in any way to harming or placing children at risk.

A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Plan International's Safeguarding Children and Young People policy. Plan International also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme we will request information from applicants previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Please note that Plan International will never send unsolicited emails requesting payment from candidates.

Potential interview questions

Can you describe a time when you had to manage multiple priorities? The interviewer wants to understand your multitasking abilities in a fast-paced environment. Provide a specific example of how you effectively prioritized your tasks to meet deadlines.
How do you ensure accuracy in financial reporting? The interviewer is assessing your attention to detail and understanding of financial processes. Pro members can see the explanation.
Tell us about a time you built a trusting relationship with a colleague or partner. Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Describe a challenging communication situation you faced. How did you handle it? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
What steps do you take to prioritize tasks under tight deadlines? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
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