Finance Technical Assistant Ethiopia Jigjiga

Support financial documentation and assist in finance-related tasks.

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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

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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

  1. Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines
  2. Implements independently procedures and activities within own function or core competency as delegated
  3. Responsible for organizing and delivery of tasks in line with priorities and standards
  4. 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
  5. Use initiative in day-to-day problem-solving in line with agreed procedures, priorities and standards for the area of work
  6. Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
  7. Ensure proper filing of documents

Specific responsibilities

  1. Archiving, organizing, and updating financial documents both in hard and soft.
  2. Scanning and filing of all financial documents in soft.
  3. Ensure that all the documents are properly placed, properly filed and labelled.
  4. Manage uploading financial documents in office 365.
  5. Providing vouchers to auditors and place them back in the file folder.
  6. Help accountants on filing of monthly financial vouchers.
  7. Maintain records to ensure the long-term preservation and easy retrieval of documents and information.
  8. Upon request of finance staff scan the documents and vouchers.
  9. Make sure and advice the users on how to best to access, use and retrieve the archives.
  10. Ensure financial documents are collected from field offices regularly and on time.
  11. Liaise with compliance department audit and finance for any matter related to archive.
  12. Assist handling all taxation matters including but not limited to extracting documents and preparing tax report in case necessary.
  13. Help the finance staff in the acquisition and retrieval of documents.
  14. Manage Petty cash replenishment and small payments of office running costs
  15. Issue cheque payments and bank transfers,
  16. Support program team for field for Training payments
  17. 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.
Added 1 year ago - Updated 1 year ago - Source: nrc.no