Finance Officer
Country Afghanistan Province Balkh,
Categories Finance, Type Full Time
Post Date 2024-10-01 Close Date 2024-10-10
Vacancy No WHH/AFG-MZR/062 Gender male female
No Of Jobs 1 Contract Duration One Year with Possibility of Extension
Education Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, accounting, or related field Experience 5 years progressively related to finance, accounting experience in International or national organizations.
Organization Opportunities for you Salary As per WHH Salary scale

About Company

About Welthungerhilfe: Welthungerhilfe it is one of Germany's biggest non-governmental relief organizations. Non-profit making, politically independent and non-denominational, the organization is run by a Supervisory Board of honorary members under the patronage of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its work is funded by private donations and public grants. Welthungerhilfe is working since the 1980’s continuously in Afghanistan and opened the first offices in 1992. Since this time Welthungerhilfe has implemented some 165 projects in Afghanistan. Main fields of Welthungerhilfe intervention in Afghanistan are emergency relief, food and nutrition security, rural and regional development and water and sanitation.

Job Description

Purpose of The Position:

The Finance Officer is responsible for providing support in the various Finance function.

Role and Responsibilities

  1. Work closely with the Humanitarian Aid Finance Expert & Head of Finance and support Project Manager to ensure smooth operation of all finance matters for North Region Office.
  2. Maintaining and filing refinancing of office cost and staff refinancing and supervising the accountant and cashier in this matter.
  3. Prepare and submit periodic financial reports (Monthly closures, MoEs reports) for submission through the Head of Finance to WHH-HQ, COO-WHH and Ministry of Economy and Finance of Afghanistan.
  4. Matching invoices to statements and purchase orders to invoices for approval of bills.
  5. Preparing fund requests for project wise and do consolidation of fund request receive from projects.
  6. Checking the vendor and contractor’s documents and executing their payments after approval and processing it with-holding tax based on the Afghan government income tax law.
  7. Conducting Daily, Weekly, Monthly cash count and control with the cashier.
  8. Assist audit exercise.
  9. Checking of Partners monthly financial report to ensure accuracy, correctness, and completeness, before posting in the accounting system.
  10. Filing financial statements after monthly closure Monthly Financial Status (MFS) and budget control.
  11. Preparing and coordination for compiling the project annual closure report as per project assigned by the organization and take any steps to fill the gap where is needed.
  12. Releasing vouchers from financial software after checking with financial reports
  13. Preparing the monthly financial report folder after receiving documents from Cashier and Accountant. Including Fund request, bank reconciliation, Monthly FR etc. in Promis
  14. Making sure monthly Scanning of cash and bank vouchers in fundspro (KoFax)
  15. Any other finance related task requested by the Head of Finance.

 

Job Requirement

Job Requirements (experience and education):

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, accounting, or related field
  • 5 years progressively related to finance, accounting experience in International or national organizations.
  • Must be fluent in English, Dari and Pashto

Preferred skills:

  • Mathematics skill
  • Team building skills.
  • Problem solving and basic counseling skills
  • Effective verbal and listening communication skills.
  • Computer skills including the ability to operate spreadsheets and word processing programs at a highly proficient level.
  • Time management skills.

Submission Guideline

  • The applicants should complete & submit only the WHH Recruitment Form with resume to the following email address (Candidate can download form from http://www.acbar.org/applicationform) (https://www.acbar.org/applicationform?page=5)
  • HR Database will not accept only resume of applicant.
  • Only application send to below address will be considered. Applications send to any other address even within the organization cannot be considered.
  • Please put the vacancy number and job title in your email subject or otherwise your email will reject from resume database. 

WHH will screen all applications on the fulfillment of the requirements and if an applicant has no response from WHH within 30 days after closure of the vacancy, it indicates that the applicant is not shortlisted.  WHH encourage applicants who are not shortlisted to keep checking for vacancies in the future to check if more suitable vacancies to apply for.

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