Finance Officer Ukraine Chernihiv (Ukrainian Nationals ONLY)

Finance & Economy

Overview

Manage financial functions and support project staff in Ukraine.

You have:

• Experience from working as a Finance Officer/Accountant in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Professional knowledge of auditing/accounting
• Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian both written and verbal
• Intermediate proficiency in English, both written and verbal, is an advantage
• Knowledge of legal tax base for the representation office
• Good computer skills in MS Office

Contract

This is a Professional contract, Grade 5 (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract, Grade 5 (NRC) contracts.

1. Role and responsibilities

Generic responsibilities

1. Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
2. Implement delegated financial function portfolio according to plan of action as well as to Financial Handbook and other NRC policies including SOP’s
3. Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
4. Maintain the filling system for all financial and accounting documents and ensure filing of all financial documents according to NRC standards
5. Prepare monthly financial reports and send all relevant documents
6. Support project staff in financial and administrative matters
7. Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
8. Contribute to specific protection risks and needs analyses
9. Contribute to designing of protection response to identified risks and needs.

Specific responsibilities

These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of operation, strategic focus and type of programme intervention. This section shall be revised whenever a new employee is hired or the context changes significantly.

• Verify that vouchers and supporting documents meet NRC standards before payment. Be responsible for payments to suppliers, contract workers and mobilisers.
• Be responsible for disbursement of perdiem to NRC Ukraine employees according to Ukrainian legislation and NRC policies.
• Ensure that all costs are timely booked into Agresso on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Be responsible to write transactions numbers on the vouchers and label financial documents
• Prepare bank accounts reconciliations.
• Collaborate with the financial institutions to ensure that queries related to payments are timely resolved (return payments, under/over payments, suppliers/contractors’ incorrect account details etc)
• Ensure implementing of the routine for securing supporting documentation in a digital format. Follow up to ensure processing of reconciliation of deliverables (Financial part).
• Assist the Finance Coordinator (FC) and the Finance Manager (FM) in internal and external audits and preparing donor reports
• Verification of purchase requisitions (PR) and purchase orders (PO)
• Any other tasks that will be assigned by the Field Office Coordinator.

2. Competencies

1. Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies:

• Experience from working as a Finance Officer/Accountant in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Professional knowledge of auditing/accounting
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge of English, both written and verbal

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of the context in the areas NRC operates
• Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian both written and verbal
• Intermediate proficiency in English, both written and verbal, is an advantage
• Knowledge of legal tax base for the representation office
• Experience from working with local financial institutions and tax authorities
• Experience with start-up of humanitarian/recovery or related programmes is an asset
• Good computer skills in MS Office

2. Behavioral competencies

• Handling insecure environment
• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Analyzing
• Working with people

3. Performance Management

The employee will be accountable for the responsibilities and the competencies, in accordance with the NRC Performance Management Manual. The following documents will be used for performance reviews:

• The Job Description

• The Work and Development Plan

• The Mid-term/End-of-trial Period Performance Review Template

• The End-term Performance Review Template

• The NRC Competency Framework

We offer:

• Type of contract: till 30.06.2023, contingent upon availability
• Salary/benefits: According to NRC salary scale, terms and conditions.
• Duty station: Chernihiv
• This position is for Ukrainian nationals only.
• Closing date for this vacancy is 19/09/2022
• Please note that we will contact only shortlisted candidates.
• NRC retains the discretion to cancel the recruitment.
• NRC might review applications before advert deadline, therefore interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.

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