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Job Description
Background on ACTED
ACTED is a French humanitarian NGO, founded in 1993, which supports vulnerable populations, affected by humanitarian crises worldwide. ACTED provides continued support to vulnerable communities by ensuring the sustainability of post-crisis interventions and engaging long-term challenges facing our target populations, in order to break the poverty cycle, foster development and reduce vulnerability to disasters. Their interventions seek to cover the multiple aspects of humanitarian and development crises through a multidisciplinary approach which is both global and local, and adapted to each context.
ACTED is looking for professionally confident, self-motivated, experienced and committed team player to fill the Finance Intern position in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Objectives:
Ensures proper physical and digital archiving of the finance department
Accurate bookkeeping of ACTED’s financial operations
Compliance of ACTED finance documents
Functions
Archiving:
- Checking the finance documentation (expenses, advances …. )
- Proper physical and digital archiving of the finance documentation
- Assist from time to time in reviewing field finance vouchers.
Accounting:
- Assisting in updating the cash books of the Ethiopia office
- Preparing the payment vouchers
- Assisting the Finance Assistant in the monthly accounting through preparation of the reconciliation statement, scanning the end month’s documents, counter checking vouchers against the cashbook
- Assist in consolidation of the V1 closure documents.
Reporting:
- Reporting on the debt follow-up and contract follow-up to the Finance Officer
- Preparation of the Red-Cell Game report when requested
Others:
- Collecting the information on cash disbursement for the Ethiopia Office
- Assisting performing the petty cash management
- Any other duty as may be requested by the supervisor
- Protection mainstreaming- Promoting of and adhering to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse policy and guidelines (for site residents, ACTED staff, partner agencies, casual labours etc
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Basic understanding of humanitarian principles and activities.
- Sound understanding/experience in financial processing and management.
- Excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel.
- Keen to detail and accuracy required and willing to learn.
- Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to establish effective work relations at all levels.
- Proven ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and work with limited supervision, pro-active and a good team-player.
- High level of integrity and honesty.
How to Apply
Application Procedure:
Qualified Ethiopia national persons with the required skills are invited to submit their applications accompanied by detailed curriculum vitae and cover letter as a single document i.e. with the cover letter being on the first page and the CV starting on the second page, detailing three work related referees and contacts to ethiopia.jobs@acted.org and received on or before 5.00PM on June 02, 2023 with the subject line “Finance Intern– Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
Do not attach any other documents while sending your applications, if required they will be requested at a later stage.
Please note that ACTED reserves the right to shortlist on ongoing basis. Only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
ACTED will at no stage of recruitment process request candidate to make payments of any kind. Further, ACTED has not retained any agent in connection with recruitments.
ACTED is committed to protecting beneficiaries within our programmes from exploitation and abuse and any kind of misconduct. ACTED has specific policies, including PSEA and Child Protection, which outlines the expected behaviour and the responsibility of all staff, beneficiaries, consultants and other stakeholders and has zero tolerance towards misconducts. Any candidate offered a job with ACTED will be expected to sign ACTED’s organizational Policies and Code of Conduct as an annex to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.
ACTED is an Equal Opportunity Employer.