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Accountant

Medecins Sans Frontieres Spain

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Finance

Accounting

Addis Ababa

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2021-08-18

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2021-08-27

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Job Description

Controlling the daily cash/check management, supporting the project accounting staff, overseeing and pre-paring the projects books in accordance with the Accountant and Finance Manager's instructions and MSF protocols, standards and procedures in order to provide accurate, reliable and updated financial information.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • Controlling the daily cash and check management and ensuring that all receipts and documentation meet MSF requirements (procedures, deadlines, information, signatures ...). Tracking bills/vouchers, invoices and other running costs and analyzing the related information (costs, service contracts ...) in order to give reliable and updated information.
  • Controlling cash advances and cashbook movements for each petty cash box, recording all IN and Out transactions, ensuring that cashbox balances always reflect the actual amount of money kept in the cashboxes and investigating any discrepancy. Ensuring strict compliance with cash control procedures for each cashbox / currency (daily cash control, weekly cash inventory and reconciliations)
  • Performing currency exchange operations in accordance with the country's exchange rate policy
  • Ensuring a monthly accounts report in accordance with MSF procedures, checking individual entries and preparing the necessary administrative documents (originals) as a basis for justification and explanation of payments and receipts made.
  • Preparing the timely payment of taxes.
  • Being responsible for the processing of accounting software peripheral accounting (project and capital) including checking the quality of the mission accounting allocations and their conformity (correct encoding of salaries, following up and matching of internal transfers and advances in the mission, checking invoices and their allocations, preparing payment order documents to be sent to HQ). Analyzing the problems of the cash box discrepancies and giving technical help to find solutions.
  • Being responsible for filing accounting documents and their annexes, preparing documents for audits, organizing the scanning of documents and archiving mission financial documents
  • Informing supervisors of any issues / problems that may arise in their job performance.

Job Requirements

Education

  • Essential diploma or professional qualification in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration

Experience

In administration and accountability (minimum 1 year).

Languages       

Mission and local language essential.

Knowledge

Essential computer literacy (word, excel)

Competencies

  • Results and Quality Orientation L2
  • Team work and Cooperation L2
  • Behavioral Flexibility L2
  • Commitment to MSF Principles L2
  • Stress Management L3

How to Apply

All applicants should send a CV, cover letter, educational records, work certificates and copy of national ID card ONLY by email to msfe-addis-dev@barcelona.msf.org (please indicate ¨On the subject box of your email: the vacancy title, ¨your name¨.

Posting date: 17 August 2021

Closing date: 27 August 2021

MSF Spain promotes the EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION.

MSF Spain encourages internal growth and development.

We strongly encourage INTERNAL STAFF, WOMEN and PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (compatible with the nature of the work) to apply.

Incomplete applications will not be accepted.

Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Copies of CV + supporting documents are non-returnable. Phone calls are not allowed

We strongly encourage qualified women to apply.

Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted

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