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Finance Technical Assistant

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Jijiga

3 years

1 Position

2023-08-29

to

2023-09-12

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Fields of study

Finance

Full Time

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Job Description

Generic responsibilities 

  • Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines.

  • Implements independently procedures and activities within own function or core competency as delegated.

  • Responsible for organizing and delivery of tasks in line with priorities and standards.

  • Develop and maintain knowledge of the specialist area of work in which technical assistance and support is being provided, to be most effective in supporting the team.

  • Use initiative in day-to-day problem solving in line with agreed procedures, priorities and standards for the area of work.

  • Prepare and develop status reports as required by management.

  • Ensure proper filing of documents. 

  • Promote and share ideas for improvement in the area of Livelihoods and Food Security

Specific responsibilities

  • Archiving, organizing, and updating financial documents both in hard and soft.

  • Scanning and filing of all financial documents in soft.

  • Ensure that all the documents are properly placed, properly filed and labelled.

  • Manage the soft filling.

  • Providing vouchers to auditors and place them back in the file folder.

  • Help accountants on filing of monthly financial vouchers.

  • Maintain records to ensure the long-term preservation and easy retrieval of documents and information.

  • Upon request of finance staff scan the documents and vouchers.

  • Make sure and advice the users on how to best to access, use and retrieve the archives.

  • Ensure financial documents are collected from field offices regularly and on time.

  • Liaise with compliance department audit and finance for any matter related to archive.

  • Assist tax officer in all taxation matters including but not limited to extracting documents and preparing tax report in case necessary.

  • Help the finance staff in the acquisition and retrieval of documents.

  • Any other task assigned by the su

Job Requirements

Professional competencies 

These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance. 

Generic professional competencies for this position: 

  • Good written and spoken Somali Good spoken English.

  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word.

  • Creativity and willingness to try new things.

  • A positive and collaborative attitude and willingness to work in a team.

  • A willingness to work in a multi-cultural environment. 

Context related skills, knowledge, and experience

  • BA in Finance.

  • At least 3 years’ relevant progressive experience.

  • Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.

  • Previous work experience with a satisfactory performance in the same or similar functional area, preferably with UN or INGOs

  • Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.

  • Fluency in English, both written and verbal 

Behavioural competencies

  • Planning and delivering results.

  • Communicating with impact and respect

  • Handling insecure environment

  • Empowering and building trust

How to Apply

Apply here!

Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply!

Fields Of Study

Finance