Assistant Finance Officer
Country Afghanistan Province Samangan,
Categories Finance, Type Full Time
Post Date 2024-10-02 Close Date 2024-10-13
Vacancy No IRW-BLK-011-2024 Gender male female
No Of Jobs 1 Contract Duration 4 Months
Education Bachelor’s degree in economics, Business Administration or any other relevant field is preferable Experience 2 -3 years’ work experience in the relevant field with NGOs and INGOs
Organization Opportunities for you Salary As per company salary scale

About Company

About Islamic Relief Worldwide-Afghanistan: Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) is an international, non-profitable, non-governmental humanitarian relief organization with its head quarter in Birmingham, UK. It enjoys consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for International Red Cross and red Crescent Moments and NGOs in Disaster Relief. Islamic Relief has been working in Afghanistan for more than 23 years, providing emergency relief and implementing life-changing development projects for some of the most vulnerable people in the country. Islamic Relief set up our first Afghanistan office in 1999. Since then, IRA continued providing assistances in emergency relief, food security, livelihood, education, health, nutrition, shelter, orphan sponsorship, Ramadan and Qurbani programmes.

Job Description

Job Summary

The Assistant Finance Officer will works under the direct supervision of Provincial Manager and undertake the following duties:

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Responsible for maintaining cash book and reconciling cash on daily basis.
  • Ensuring that IR Afghanistan adheres to local income tax regulations.
  • Maintaining and developing controls over all advances paid to staff.
  • Maintaining a fixed asset for IR Afghanistan in accounting system in coordination with Project field staff.
  • Preparing accounting vouchers and cross checking against budgets, investigating and reporting to Area Finance Officer/Country Office Finance and Supply Chain on any variations in projections and working to resolve.
  • Supporting the Program staff in distributions and stock records/ counts etc.
  • Ensure financial understanding and ensure the accurateness and completeness of data entered.
  • Prepare weekly / monthly finance reports for IRA-CO.
  • Record project wise income and expenditure transactions on daily basis.
  • Scrutinizing invoices in coordination with Supply Chain and tag it to the right project.
  • Record transfers from IRA-CO and other bodies.
  • Arrange cash flow for the projects.
  • Ensure Bank reconciliations are done on a monthly basis.
  • Any other reasonable duties assigned by the line supervisor.

Job Requirement

Qualification:

  • Bachelor’s degree in economics, Business Administration or any other relevant field is preferable.
  • Certificate in Accounting with a thorough practical understanding of management accounting principles and techniques is a plus.

Experience:

  • 2 -3 years’ work experience in the relevant field with NGOs and INGOs

Skills:

  • Excellent inter-personal and communication skill
  • Ability to act in own initiative
  • The ability to work as a team
  • High degree of communication skills, particularly attuned to working well with non- finance professionals and volunteers
  • Used to working in fast moving environments providing accurate and timely information to a high standard.

Submission Guideline

Interested and qualified national candidates should submit a cover letter explaining their motivation and updated CV to the following: 

https://jobs.af/jobs/assistant-finance-officer-PThAcSYJH

The closing date for accepting applications is 13 October 2024

Please clearly state the Vacancy Announcement number and title of the position you are applying for in the subject line. 

Please note that applications received after the closing date will not be considered and only short-listed candidates will be called for a written test & Interview. 

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