Accounts Officer - Nairobi

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Position : Accounts Officer - Nairobi

We are looking for an Accounts Officer.

The Accounts Officer is an integral part of finance team that supports country offices on financial issues, system and process improvement. The Accounts Officer reports to the Head of Finance (HoF) and provides review of transactions and relevant documents.

Responsibilities :

Reconcile the reported expenditure with the financial system of the country offices

Prepare the fund reconciliation report with the financial report and bank reconciliation

Review of the shared supporting documents for all the transactions from.

Work with the submitted budget from the country to review and consolidate them for submission

Work with the head office team to get our expenditures and supporting documents

Review the reimbursement documents from country offices

Read, understand, practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action

Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Partner Support and Capacity building.

Assist in the preparation of files and documents for the smooth running of programs

Prepare Program weekly movement plans and submit to Logistics team;

Write reports and project documents and submit to Program Manager as required.

Support in the use of monitoring systems and monitoring tools

Working and building the capacity of the partners, supporting in developing institutional development plans for the local partners.

Effectively manage tools and resources for programmes planning and development,

Ensure that all Partner financial data associated with programs are recorded and documented.

Finance & Compliance Management

Ensure compliance with donor and Compassion Aid regulations related to peace and conflict programming.

Ensure compliance with security procedures and policies as determined by country leadership.

Proactively ensure that team members operate in a secure environment and are aware of policies.

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Accountability to Beneficiaries

Compassion Aid team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Job criteria for job ad : Accounts Officer - Nairobi

Job category : Accounting, controlling, finance

Industries : Advice, audit, accounting

Employment type : Permanent contract

Region : Nairobi - International

City : Nairobi

Experience level : Less than 2 years

Educational level : High school - Technical school - College - HND - Bachelor - Master - Doctorate

Number of Position(s) : 1

Industries: Non-profit Organization Management

Function: Accounting and Finance