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Senior Finance officer -Budget control

Marie Stopes International Ethiopia

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Finance

Accounting

Addis Ababa

4 years

1 Position

2025-02-01

to

2025-02-07

Required Skills

support development of annual budget

accounting techniques

explain accounting records

manage budgets

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Fields of study

Accounting

Full Time

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Job Description

About the Job

Under administrative direction of the Senior Grant Manager; the Senior Finance Officer; assist budget and forecast preparation, lead budget controlling and cost containment, participates in the preparation of financial statements and in implementing accounting systems; keeps up-to-date pertinent records of the books of accounts, explores better way of recording and data documentation.

DUTIES/TASKS

  • Assist annual, quarterly and monthly budget preparation.

  • Budget utilization monitoring and reporting

  • Preparation of analysis on budget utilization and cost containment

  • Properly codes and records expenditure, income and any other related transactions in the books of accounts;

  • Checks all clinic receipt, invoices and petty cash payments and post to SUN;

  • Checks summary of bi-weekly transactions received from Area offices for having complete supporting documents and proper coding of account code, funder, activity and donor line codes and post to SUN;

  • Maintains debtors and creditors accounts in SUN with proper allocation of balances;

  • Prepares monthly bank reconciliation;

  • Verifies payroll and other regular payment transactions with due consideration to deductions (advance, loan….) and record in to SUN;

  • Responds to Auditors queries and enquiries and prepares schedules as and when required;

  • Records stock receipts, transfers and consumptions of Centres, Outreach, Social Franchising and Support Office;

  • Offers guidelines and reporting formats to accounting professionals involved in the preparation and recording financial statements;

  • Performs quarterly reconciliation between the general ledger (SUN) and the subsidiary ledger (Peachtree);

  • Assists Centre Coordinators, Centre Receptionists on financial matters; and Accounts Manager in the preparation of financial statements, revision and analysis of account balances;

  • Performs clearance and investigation of long outstanding balances of stock variances etc;

  • Assists in the Preparation of semi-annual and annual financial statements;

  • Prepares and submits monthly and other regular or on request financial reports, as per the reporting requirements of MSI and the project funders;

  • Explores better systems of handling financial documents;

  • Undertakes any other related duties that may be assigned by the Senior Grant Manager;

Job Requirements

Qualification Requirement:

A)Education

  • MA/BA in Accounting

B)Experience

  • Four years as Finance Officer

C)Skills, Attitudes and Attributes

  • Competence scale at the Proficiency level;

  • Capacity to guide and show better ways;

  • Persistence and capacity to look into details;

  • Knowledge of donor policies and standards;

  • Ability to use Vision XL, SUN Accounting and Peachtree Software.

  • Pro-choice

How to Apply

We invite candidates meeting the required qualifications to download and fill the job application form using THIS LINK and email to Humanresource@mariestopes.org.et before the closing date of this announcement on Feb 10 ,2025 i.e. within Ten (10) consecutive days.

Please note that we ONLY consider those who filled in the application form and send us back. We regret to inform that we do not accept CV at this stage.

Please mention the title of the position and workplace you applied for on the subject line of your email.

Due to the volume of applications, we will only contact shortlisted candidates, and we are unable to provide any feedback on unsuccessful applications.

CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

MSI ETHIOPIA REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES STRONGLY ENCOURAGE FEMALE CANDIDATES TO APPLY

Fields Of Study

Accounting

Skills Required

support development of annual budget

accounting techniques

explain accounting records

manage budgets

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