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!