Finance Officer Ukraine Kyiv or Chernihiv or Shostka - Internal only
Ensure adherence with NRC policies and maintain financial records effectively.
Overview
Ensure adherence with NRC policies and maintain financial records effectively.
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
- Knowledge of legal tax base for the representation office
- Good computer skills in MS Office
Qualifications
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
Behavioral competencies
- Handling insecure environment
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect
- Analyzing
- Working with people
Responsibilities
Generic Responsibilities
- Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
- Implement delegated financial function portfolio according to plan of action as well as to Financial Handbook and other NRC policies including SOP’s
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
- Maintain the filling system for all financial and accounting documents and ensure filing of all financial documents according to NRC standards
- Prepare monthly financial reports and send all relevant documents
- Support project staff in financial and administrative matters
- Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
- Contribute to specific protection risks and needs analysis
- 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 per diem 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 for writing 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 Area Office Coordinator.
Potential interview questions
| Describe a time when you had to handle financial documentation in an insecure environment. | To assess your ability to manage financial processes under pressure. | Provide specific examples of your experience in challenging situations. |
| How do you ensure accuracy when preparing financial reports? | This shows your attention to detail and financial acumen. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Tell us about your experience with local financial institutions. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you use to deliver results in a team setting? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe how you would promote improvement in financial functions. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Provide an example of a challenge you faced in financial management and how you overcame it. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| How do you keep up to date with changes in financial regulations? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Explain how you would handle conflicting priorities in your work. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |