Finance Technical Assistant Ethiopia Jigjiga
Support financial documentation and assist in finance-related tasks.
Overview
Support financial documentation and assist in finance-related tasks.
You have:
- BA Degree in accounting and Finance.
- At least 3 years’ relevant progressive experience.
- Good writing and speaking skills in both Somali and English languages.
- Previous work experience with a satisfactory performance in a similar functional area, preferably with UN or INGOs.
- Creativity and willingness to try new things.
- A willingness to work in a multi-cultural environment.
- Good planning and delivering results skills.
- Ability to handle insecure environment.
Contract
This is a Professional contract (NRC) contract. More about Professional contract (NRC) contracts.
Position: Finance Assistant Reports to: Finance Coordinator Supervision of: N/A Duty station: Jigjiga Area Office Travel % 20% Project number: ETFM2319/ETFP0000 Duration and type of contract: 12 Months – (Fixed)
Qualifications
Generic professional competencies for this position:
- Good writing and speaking skills in both Somali and English languages.
- Creativity and willingness to try new things
- A positive and collaborative attitude and willingness to work in a team
- A willingness to work in a multi-cultural environment
Context related skills, knowledge, and experience:
- BA Degree in accounting and Finance.
- At least 3 years’ relevant progressive experience.
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Previous work experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area, preferably with UN or INGOs
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Behavioral competencies
- Planning and delivering results
- Communicating with impact and respect
- Handling insecure environment
- Empowering and building trust
Responsibilities
Generic responsibilities
- Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines
- Implements independently procedures and activities within own function or core competency as delegated
- Responsible for organizing and delivery of tasks in line with priorities and standards
- Develop and maintain knowledge of the specialist area of work in which technical assistance and support is being provided, to be most effective in supporting the team
- Use initiative in day-to-day problem-solving in line with agreed procedures, priorities and standards for the area of work
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
- Ensure proper filing of documents
Specific responsibilities
- Archiving, organizing, and updating financial documents both in hard and soft.
- Scanning and filing of all financial documents in soft.
- Ensure that all the documents are properly placed, properly filed and labelled.
- Manage uploading financial documents in office 365.
- Providing vouchers to auditors and place them back in the file folder.
- Help accountants on filing of monthly financial vouchers.
- Maintain records to ensure the long-term preservation and easy retrieval of documents and information.
- Upon request of finance staff scan the documents and vouchers.
- Make sure and advice the users on how to best to access, use and retrieve the archives.
- Ensure financial documents are collected from field offices regularly and on time.
- Liaise with compliance department audit and finance for any matter related to archive.
- Assist handling all taxation matters including but not limited to extracting documents and preparing tax report in case necessary.
- Help the finance staff in the acquisition and retrieval of documents.
- Manage Petty cash replenishment and small payments of office running costs
- Issue cheque payments and bank transfers,
- Support program team for field for Training payments
- Any other task assigned by the supervisor.
Potential interview questions
| Can you describe a time when you had to manage a significant amount of financial documentation? | The interviewer is assessing your organizational and documentation skills in finance. | Provide a specific example highlighting your attention to detail and your method for managing documents. |
| How do you prioritize tasks when facing tight deadlines? | The interviewer wants to know your time management skills and ability to handle pressure. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Can you give an example of how you contributed to a team in a multicultural environment? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| What strategies do you use to ensure accuracy in financial reports? | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |
| Describe a challenge you faced in your previous finance roles and how you overcame it. | Pro members can see the explanation. | Pro members can see the explanation. |