Responsibilities:

The Senior Finance Officer is responsible to establish and maintains efficient financial systems and control mechanisms to support the smooth running of the financial operations, ensure compliance with financial rules and procedures. She/He will maintain financial records and monitoring systems to record and reconcile expenditures, balances, payments, statements and other data for day-to-day transactions and reports.

• Manage the day-to-day financial functions and ensure compliance with financial internal controls, and ensure that transactions are processed, and assets managed in accordance with RSDO Financial Rules and Regulations
• Banking and Cash Management:  Managing bank accounts and related records, cash disbursements, cash receipts, cash count. Reports to Donor on status of accounts.
• Select and enter data from a wide variety of documents, verifying accuracy by checking sources, making necessary calculations, and assuring inclusion of all relevant data.
• Financial Reporting:  Preparing monthly and quarterly reports including budget variance reports, trial balance, cash flow reports, sales receipts and banking reconciliation and balance sheets.
• Accounting Procedures:  Managing accounts payable, and accounts receivable summaries, journal entries for adjustment to the general ledger, chart of accounts and financial coding structure
•  Payroll:   Managing monthly payroll process and keeping payroll records.
• Lead the development, monitoring, and review of project budgets; review monthly financial analysis and budget and expense reports to determine reasonableness of variances and take appropriate actions, as required.
• Provide financial reports, including pipeline analysis, quarterly project reports, as requested by the donor.
• Advise and assist staff members, experts and consultants on all aspects of allowances, salary advances, travel claims and other financial matters, calculate and authorize payments due for claims and services.
• Maintain liaison with officials of local banks to obtain day-to-day information on exchange and interest rates, changes in procedures and regulations and matters pertaining to maintenance of office bank accounts.
• Prepare detailed cost estimates and participate in budget analysis and projections as required.
• Initiate correspondence to verify data, answer queries and obtain additional information on accounts and financial transactions, as required.
• Verify that the financial transactions are correct and in accordance with RSDO rules and procedures.
• Oversee day-to-day coordination of financial activities ensuring cost efficiency.
• Maintain and administer an on-site financial accounting and bookkeeping system (Cashbook) required to assure the integrity and effective performance of financial operations and prepare monthly reports.
• Facilitate the work of external audits and audits and ensure that financial records are properly maintained and readily available during audits
• Direct and oversee the monitoring and annual auditing of cost-share requirements, tracking and reporting.
• Contribute to developing work plans and annual budgets for project activities and local office costs
• Organizing and preparing the Employees files, Employees Contracts, and documents.
• Maintain financial records such as expenditures, travel arrangements, purchases and delivery equipment has supplies and inventory. 
• Keep records of all finance related documents.
• Prepare cash received voucher, cash payment voucher, Checking. Make daily cash reconciliation).
• Process payment requests of the project and operation cost.
• Ensure project/program cost are according to approved budget lines
• Ensure purchasing procedures are followed for purchasing items need larger amount of cash.
• Ensure all bills, vouchers and any other documents related to finance has been signed and approved dated properly and recorded in proper manner.
• Prepare monthly salary payroll, timesheet, and request for cash accordingly.          
• Participate in the Admin/Finance related meetings and donor meeting.
• Overall control on the budget line allocated for office and spends accordingly.
• Conducting regular meetings with subordinates and sending its minutes to main office within time frame.
• Assist in financial management; including management of cash flows in accordance with donor/ organization approved policies and procedures.
• Assist in managing funds of ASLO in the most efficient and controlled manner.
• Correspondence with Donor Agencies and others on finance related matters and issues of ASLO.
• Assist in ensuring timely and reliable preparation of monthly financial reports of ASLO as and when desired.
• Carryout bank reconciliations of all bank account; provide fund status updates on monthly basis
• Any other tasks assigned by the Director of RSDO.
• Manages and reconciles the petty cash/operational Advance in the field office for minor expenses
• budget Administration.  Overseeing the annual budget and financial plan preparation, tracking budget execution.