Internal /External Vacancy Announcement
INTRODUCTION
Save the Children is an exciting and dynamic organization that follows a holistic approach to achieve more for children and use its resources in an efficient and sustainable way. In every programming we aim to achieve results at scale, build partnership to influence others and increase our impact; look for innovate solutions to the problems children faces, campaign for better practice and ensure that Children’s voices are heard.
Save the Children is an organization for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives. We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive on our diversity. We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity. Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children both in their private and professional lives.
Save the Children offers sound employment conditions with opportunities for personal growth and development. If you are interested to work in an organization that is determined to achieve dramatic change for the most vulnerable children, we encourage you to look through the job profile below.
Job Title | Assistance Financial Accountant |
Code | SC/SFO/020/18 |
Place of Work | Sekota |
Programme/Unit | Operation/Support |
Monthly Salary in ETB | As per the organization Scale |
No. of Positions | 01 (One) |
Reports to | Financial Accountant |
Length of Contract | 6 months |
ROLE PURPOSE:
The purpose of the Assistant Financial Accountant position will assist the Financial Accountant to carry out activities in finance including petty cash management. She/he will assist with quality control, financial reporting and monitoring. The role holder will also provide assistance in ensuring appropriate systems and procedures (payroll, cash management, vendor payments, budgeting and other related to financial management) are in place to properly disburse, account, budget and report project funds which are cost effective, timely, have proper internal controls and comply with SCI internal policy procedure.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
§ Prepares bank payment voucher for approved payments and effect the payment.
§ Ensure supplier/vendors are paid on time and legal receipt is received for all effected payments and attach to the payment documents.
§ Handle petty cash of the field office and maintain proper petty cash recording/register
§ Prepares petty cash payment voucher and effects approved cash payment up to petty cash limit of the program.
§ Follow up on staff work advance and travel advance to be settled timely.
§ Properly coding of all bank and petty cash transactions as per chart of account coding classification.
§ Collect cash with appropriate voucher and deposit cash collections intact to bank account.
§ Ensure safe custody of Filed office’s Petty Cash fund, uncollected cheque, new cheque pads & bid bonds, and other legal documents related to finance.
§ Prepare General Ledger and Cash Offline Spread sheet (GLACOSE for all transactions that to be reviewed and posted by the Financial Accountant
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
· BA degree in accounting or equivalent combination of education and work experience
EXPEREINCE
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITY
· Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices, flexibility in working long hours and ability to work with incoming surge teams;
· Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills;
· Fluency in written and spoken English;
· Commitment to Save the Children values
· Teams, in the event of emergencies
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
· Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
· Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
· Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves (and their team), takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages others to do the same
· Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
· Future orientated, thinks strategically
Collaboration:
· Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
· Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
· Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
· Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
· Willing to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
· Honest, encourages openness and transparency
Child safeguarding
Save the Children is committed to ensuring that all our personnel and programmes are absolutely safe for children. We undertake rigorous procedures including background checks to ensure that only people suitable to work with children are allowed to join our organisation and all candidates will therefore be subject to this scrutiny.