Overview

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters, and exclusion from healthcare. Médecins Sans Frontières assists populations in distress, victims of natural or man-made disasters and victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed, or political convictions.

Job Position: Accountant
Location: Akwa, Anambra

Job Responsibilities

  1. Controlling the daily cash and check management and ensuring that all receipts and documentation meet MSF requirements (procedures, deadlines, information, signatures …). Tracking bills/vouchers, invoices and other running costs and analysing the related information (costs, service contracts …) to give reliable and updated information.
  2. Controlling cash advances and cashbook movements for each petty cash box, recording all IN and Out transactions, ensuring that cashbox balances always reflect the actual amount of money kept in the cashboxes and investigating any discrepancy. Ensuring strict compliance with cash control procedures for each cashbox/currency (daily cash control, weekly cash inventory and reconciliations)
  3. Performing currency exchange operations in accordance with the country’s exchange rate policy
  4. Ensuring monthly accounts report in accordance with MSF procedures, checking individual entries and preparing the necessary administrative documents (originals) as a basis for justification and explanation of payments and receipts made.
  5. Preparing the timely payment of taxes.
  6. Being responsible for the processing of accounting software peripheral accounting (project and capital), including checking the quality of the mission accounting allocations and their conformity (correct encoding of salaries, following up and matching of internal transfers and advances in the mission, checking invoices and their allocations, preparing payment order documents to be sent to HQ). Analysing the problems of the cash box discrepancies and giving technical help to find solutions.
  7. Being responsible for filing accounting documents and their annexes, preparing documents for audits, organising the scanning of documents and archiving mission financial documents
  8. Informing supervisors of any issues/problems that may arise in their job performance.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

  1. Preparation of payments and encoding of transactions into the MSF accounting software.
  2. Ensure accurate and up-to-date encoding of Unifield to guarantee a proper closure of the month and scanning of accounting vouchers.
  3. Ensure all types of Taxes are collected, remitted to the appropriate authority and send the proof to respective suppliers.
  4. Ensure the implementation of MSF- financial policies, procedures, and SOPs before processing any payment.
  5. Contract Management, cost analysis and budget follow-up for the construction of new projects.
  6. Performing any other tasks within the scope of his role, as directed by supervision and according to the needs of the mission.

Minimum Required Skills and Qualifications
Education:

  1. A bachelor’s in Accounting is essential.
  2. Professional Certification in Accounting, Business, Banking and Management is desirable.

Experience:

  1. Minimum of 2 years’ experience in accounting and administration with MSF, other INGO/NGO or Private setting/context.
  2. Experience in a relatively insecure field-based environment is desirable.

Languages:

  1. Mission and local language (English, Igbo, Pidgin English) essential (high level command, oral and written
  2. Knowledge of Computer literacy intermediate level (Word, Excel) with the ability to use Finance/A counting software is essential. Knowledge working in UniField is desirable.
  3. Competencies Results and Quality Oriented, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioural Flexibility, Commitment to MSF Principles, Stress Management

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

  1. MSF is an equal opportunity employer. Both men and women are encouraged to apply. Candidates from Anambra State, and notably from AWKA preferred.
  2. Interested candidates should submit their application, including cover letter, resume and a copy of relevant certificates and NYSC certificate/Exemption letters using this link
  3. Please note that only short-listed candidates will be notified and invited for the Test and interview; MSF Belgium takes this opportunity to thank all potential candidates for their applications.
  4. Applications should be sent through the indicated channel, meeting all requirements; otherwise application will not be entertained.
  5. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the next recruitment steps.
  6. MSF reserves the right to cancel any step or whole of the whole process at any stage of recruitment.
  7. The following vacancy is open to residents of Anambra State, preferably from Awka.

Tagged as: Accounting, Finance

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