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| Finance Officer | |||
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| Country | Afghanistan | Province | Kabul, |
| Categories | Finance, | Type | Full Time |
| Post Date | 2022-12-19 | Close Date | 2022-12-28 |
| Vacancy No | VA-64-2022 | Gender | male female |
| No Of Jobs | 1 | Contract Duration | 8 Months |
| Education | Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting, ACCA, BBA, and Economics or any other relevant field | Experience | 5 years of relevant experience |
| Organization | Opportunities for you | Salary | 38000 AFN |
About Company
About Asia Community Development Organization -ACDO: Asia Community Development Organization (ACDO) is an Afghan non-governmental, non-political, and non-profit humanitarian organization established in 2014 and registered with the Government of Afghanistan under the supervision of Ministry of Economy (MoEc) with a mission to provide humanitarian and development assistance to the vulnerable, at-risk, and underserved people throughout the country. ACDO responds to the needs of deprived and marginalized rural and urban communities by managing and utilizing the available scarce resources in a well-organized, efficient, effective, transparent, and dignified manner to enhance resilience, boost access to education, health services, and infrastructure, ensure food and livelihood security, and promote social protection and inclusion. ACDO has an active presence in most parts of the country and intends to expand its operations to the remaining provinces, as to transform itself into a leading and developed organization that will deliver to and support large number of people who have been affected by the long-protracted and sudden on-set emergencies in Afghanistan. Regardless of the hardest circumstances that exist in Afghanistan, ACDO has managed to deliver humanitarian and development assistance in Nangarhar, Herat, Balkh, Kabul, Kandahar, Bamyan, Wardak, Jouzjan, Paktia, Paktika, Samangan, Parwan Kunduz, Takhar, Laghman, Daykundi, and Farah provinces during the last nine years.
Job Description
Job Overview:
The project aim is to provide emergency cash assistance for food to 7,890 vulnerable and food insecure individuals (1,127 Households) in IPC Phase 3 and 4 in Darwaz-e-Balla, Darwaz-e-Payin, Eshkashem, Khwahan and Kofab districts of Badakhshan province to ensure the need for food is met and food security is improved. The Finance Officer will be based in our Kabul office and will provide the team with finance related. S/he will follow the standard, ACDO Finance manual and procedures as well as provide support to the project team at provincial level. The role holder will be expected to work outside the normal role profile and in vary working hours accordingly
Job Description:
- His/ Her role is making ensure the applicability of generally accepted accounting and audit principles and policies are followed and ensure the adequacy and effectiveness of internal accounting procedures and operating systems and controls.
- Preparing purchase requests and cash advance forms.
- Preparing bank reconciliation on monthly bases for the ACDO bank accounts.
- Preparing in a timely manner accurate financial reports as required by the donor or for internal monitoring processes.
- Preparing Staff Salary, leases, and subcontractor payments on schedule
- Ensure tax payments strictly and deposited them to the MoF on time
- Ensure to prepare timely, accurate month-end closing, cash requests, and cash reconciliations.
- Preparing budget versus the actual of all ACDO projects on a monthly base and submitting it to the finance manager to compare and control operating costs as per the ACDO finance policy.
- Ensure that all the contractual requirements are met based on donor and organizational policies and procedures.
- Prepare documentation for events payments.
- Check financial transactions and prepare vouchers and further necessary documentation.
- Entering daily transactions into financial software (Quick Book).
- Ensure and do proper clearance of cash flow to all field offices as per their advance requests.
- Responsible for preparing the financial statements of ACDO projects quarterly, monthly, and annual bases also as per the donor requirements, and submitting them to the ACDO Finance manager for review and further action.
- Maintains field office system of accounts ensuring all accounting data is updated, reconciled, and fully supported on daily basis.
- Oversee and assure an adequate and appropriate filing system for the copies of the original receipts within the finance section.
- Receiving complete documents, invoices, bills, etc. ensuring the proper name, date, stamp, and supportive documents.
- Ensure payment upon approval of bills and invoices by cash after the Finance Manager thoroughly cheques and cash the receipts.
- Check the receipts for accounting codes, budget, donors, and auditors’ requirements in the absence of the Finance Manager.
- Reconcile the cashbook of different currencies with the petty cash in the safe regularly.
- Ensure compliance with the Country’s local laws, particularly on withholding taxes
- Inform the Finance Manager of the daily cash balance.
- Maintain all financial records properly (hard copy and soft version).
- Be available to carry out any other tasks deemed useful by his direct manager.
Job Requirement
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting, ACCA, BBA, and Economics or any other relevant field
Skills:
- Ability to cope well under pressure, work irregular hours and meet tight deadlines
- Sound organizational skills and ability to prioritize and deliver assignments in a timely manner often under severe time pressures
- Deadline-oriented
- Experience in QuickBooks and excellent computer skills, particularly with MS- Office Package.
- Experience and ability of Afghan Taxation System rules and regulations implementation according to the schedule.
- Ability to critically review and improve financial management and expenditure monitoring systems to increase accountability.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Knowledge of financial Laws and regulations
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills.
- Language: English is indispensable
- Prior experience working with an NGO in Finance.
Submission Guideline
Qualified applicants are highly encouraged to apply for the position and submit their applications (Cover Letter and CV) NOT Educational and Work Certificates, to the attention of the Human Resource Department at hr@acdo-af.org until 04:00 pm (Afghanistan Standard Time) on December 28, 2022.
Please clearly indicate (Finance Officer – VA-64-2022) in the subject of your email, otherwise, your application will be directly disqualified from the process. ACDO will review the applications on an ongoing basis, thus applicants are strongly advised to make applications at their earliest.
Shortlisted candidates will be directly contacted for a written test and consequently for an interview. If you are not contacted TWO WEEKS after the closing date, please know that your application has not been successful for the post.
Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply.