With over 70 years of experience, our focus is on helping the most vulnerable children overcome poverty and experience fullness of life. We help children of all backgrounds, even in the most dangerous places, inspired by our Christian faith.
Come join our 34,000+ staff working in nearly 100 countries and share the joy of transforming vulnerable children’s life stories!

Employee Contract Type:

Local - Fixed Term Employee with Imprecise Term

Job Description:

​Major duties and Responsibilities

• Manage the financial and accounting integrity of World Vision Ethiopia’ projects. Apply and communicate financial and accounting policies and procedures to World Vision Ethiopia’s projects. Ensure the projects’ financial reporting and systems provide timely, accurate and meaningful information. Enforce the organization’s internal management control systems in the projects. Provide assistance, as needed, to the project Manager on financial and accounting issues. Monitor project alignment in terms of financial impacts relating to cash flow, deferral, and fund accounting.

• Ensure projects comply with World Vision’s Financial Manual requirements to generate timely, accurate, and usable monthly reports. Support the project manager, support service officer, cashier storekeeper and other project staffs to operationalize World Vision Ethiopia’s financial policies and procedures at project level. Support the project Manager to monitor and manage compliance to World Vision Ethiopia’s financial and accounting policies and procedures, both written and unwritten, and ensure corrective action is taken for non-compliance.

• Ensure effective commitment, protection and application of project financial resources. Ensure the project field office comply with statutory and regulatory requirements. Support the project Manager in providing communication, understanding, interpretation and relevance of external statutory and regulatory requirements to projects. Support the project Manager in developing protocols with internal auditors relating to project accounting and internal control.

• Prepare and provide periodic financial reporting principally to the Project Manager and other key project leaders

• Manage project drivers and the field vehicles usage in compliance with World Vision fleet management policy and protocol in collaboration with project Manager, the project support officer and WVE fleet management.

• Engage in and ensure that appropriate human resource performance monitoring mechanisms with proper coaching and mentoring are practiced to enhance smooth staff relations and accountability.

Job Requirements

• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business. Build and maintain relationships by engaging key leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives.

• Qualification required: BA degree or MA degree in Finance, Business Administration or related field. Certified Public Accountant or equivalent is preferred

• Experience:  8 yrs for MA and 10 yrs for BA, at least four years of Business Management experience in INGOs and for-profit businesses. Experience with government grant regulations and financial reporting requirements.

• Supervisory and technical expertise in business processes development, internal controls, policies, and procedures. Excellent working knowledge of GAAP and government/donor regulations and requirements. Fluency in English and local language. Technically competent with various financial software programs, including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel).

How to Apply

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