Finance Officer Ukraine Lviv

Ensure financial procedures adherence in NRC

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Overview

Ensure financial procedures adherence in NRC

You have:

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field.
  • Minimum 2 years of experience working in a humanitarian organization.
  • Fluency in English.
  • Fluency in Ukrainian and Russian.
  • Knowledge of Ukrainian law regarding taxes, VAT, pension, social insurance and other taxes.
  • Familiar with NRC donors' rules and regulations.
  • Strong context monitoring and analytical skills.
  • Resilience and ability to work in insecure environments.
  • Strategic thinking.
  • Ability to empower and build trust.

Contract

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

Generic responsibilities

  • Adherence to NRC policies, guidance and procedures.
  • Implement NRC’s systems and procedures at the area level.
  • Ensure adherence to NRC policies, handbooks, guidelines and donor requirements.
  • Prepare and submit reports and analyses.
  • Ensure proper filing of all supporting documents.
  • Support line managers in the financial procedures and perform the required team training.
  • Ensure development and implementation of administrative systems and procedures.
  • Actively promote PSEA (Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse) standards &
  • principles within NRC and amongst beneficiaries served by NRC.
  • Ensure that the accounting, monitoring and reporting are according to procedures.

Specific responsibilities

  • Support and guide non-finance staff in finance procedures and facilitate team training.
  • Implement and adhere to the anti-corruption policy.
  • Make sure that financial internal controls are in place and adhered to for the banking and cash system.
  • Post the entries on daily basis to UNIT4. Make sure that Data has proper correct codes and as per the project documents.
  • Prepare the regular UNIT4 Bank reconciliations for all the balance sheet items.
  • Enter the UNIT4 rebooking and keep a proper record of it.
  • Verify the purchase requests and payment requests for the Area office.
  • Other tasks related to the project budgets like any realignment and updating the UNIT4 for project follow-up.
  • Perform payments for Vendors, partners and contractors as per NRC policies.
  • Assist the Finance Coordinator (FC) and the Finance Manager (FM) in internal and external audits.

Critical interfaces

  • NRC staff at the area level and the country office.
  • Local partners, vendors and contractors.

Scale and scope of the position

Staff:

None

Stakeholders:

Donors, NRC staff, vendors and contractors

Budgets:

-

Information:

Office365, OKTA, Agresso, Intranet, filing system

Legal or compliance:

Terms of employment, Code of conduct, Security Management Policy, NRC People

  1. Competencies

Professional competencies

  • Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
  • Minimum 2 years of experience working in a humanitarian organization.
  • Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.
  • Fluency in English.
  • Fluency in Ukrainian and Russian.
  • Knowledge of Ukrainian law regarding taxes, VAT, pension, social insurance and other taxes.
  • Familiar with NRC donors’ rules and regulations.

Behavioural competencies

  • Strong context monitoring and analytical skills.
  • Resilience and ability to work in insecure environments.
  • Strategic thinking.
  • Ability to empower and build trust.
  1. Performance Management

• 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

Potential interview questions

Can you describe a time when you had to implement a difficult policy? This question assesses your ability to follow through on policies under challenging circumstances. Provide a specific example illustrating your approach to compliance.
How do you ensure the accuracy of financial reports? The interviewer wants to know your methods for maintaining data integrity. Pro members can see the explanation.
Describe a situation where you had to train someone on financial procedures. Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Have you ever faced opposition while implementing financial controls? How did you handle it? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
What experience do you have with compliance and auditing processes? Pro members can see the explanation. Pro members can see the explanation.
Added 4 years ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: nrc.no