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Finance Technical Assistant

Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

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Finance

Accounting and Finance

Jijiga

3 years

1 Position

2024-10-23

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2024-11-03

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Accounting & Finance

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Job Description

Role and Responsibilities

The Finance technical assistant will help implement and monitor NRC’s financial management activities in Jigjiga Area office/ The Finance technical assistant’s role is to assist in day-to-day implementation of financial responsibilities as defined.

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

 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 uploading financial documents in office 365.

  • 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 handling 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.

  • Manage Petty cash replenishment and small payments of office running costs

  • Issue cheque payments and bank transfers,

  • Support program team for field for Training payments

  • Any other task assigned by the supervisor.

Generic professional competencies for this position: 

  • Good writing and speaking skills in both Somali and English languages.

  • 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

Job Requirement

Context related skills, knowledge, and experience:

  • BA Degree in accounting and 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

Required Skills

  • Accounting

How to Apply

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Female Candidates are highly encouraged to apply!

Fields Of Study

Accounting & Finance

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