Finance Technical Assistant

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Description

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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.

Qualifications

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 

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 

Source: https://ekum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2019/requisitions/job/16365

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