Description

• Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

Duties and Responsibilities

Financial Management

• Maintain a system of financial documents and supporting files, including proper substantiation of payments made including proper approvals and coding, that ties to the General Ledger within Sage Online;
• Manage petty cash, payments, and record expenses;
• Review and process payment requests; operational and travel advances requests,
• Monitor advances and reconciliation of expenditures using the Concur expense platform;
• Prepare, collect, compile, and declare sums paid to third parties
• Support monthly duties, such as:
• Submission of the monthly financial report due to HQ;
• Submission of monthly cash request due to HQ;
• Perform any adjusting entries created during the finance items review process;
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts, including banking, petty cash, advances, prepaid, and accounts payable.

Administration and Coordination:

• Recommending, implementing, and maintaining efficient systems.
• Handling finance communication, managing the finance e-mail and other finance-related email inboxes; and ensuring timely acknowledgment and feedback on all finance-related matters.
• Compiling, coordinating, and maintenance of the annual finance calendar and ensuring that timelines and deadlines are adhered to.

Resource Management:

• Assisting in the procurement and maintenance of office equipment, furniture, computers, and other assets including managing and updating the inventory of office assets.
• Any other duties as required.

Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or Accounting (or similar) required or equivalent education and experience
•  Fluency in English; both written and verbal
•  At least 3 years of professional experience with at least two of those managing accounting, grant finances, and compliance; public sector grants a plus
• Demonstrated financial management skills within the non-profit sector
• Financial and bookkeeping acumen
• Experience with financial reporting
• Demonstrated familiarity with financial tools, expense allocations, contract language, and grant cost policy adherence.

Other Qualifications:

• Experience in long-range planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial statement analysis and accounting, financial planning and analysis is required.
• Strong attention to detail, able to analyze data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations.
• Technically savvy individual who understands systems and can communicate financial processes and requirements in easily understood language
• Technical and financial knowledge.
• Ability to comprehend the big picture, pay attention to details, and work with minimal direction in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage and complete multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to extract appropriate data to convey financial information through the use of supporting tables, graphs, and other visual representations.
• Strong interpersonal, customer service and team-oriented skills are a must.
• Demonstrated interest in, knowledge of, and experience with a broad range of functional areas including information technology and software development.
• Excellent software skills with Microsoft Office applications. Ability to quickly learn new software modules.
• Demonstrated cultural competency in partnering with racial, cultural, and linguistically diverse groups.
• Demonstrated understanding of challenges with working in rural, underserved, and low-income contexts; experience living in and/or working in a low-income country a plus.
• Ability to travel to country offices in Sub-Saharan Africa on an annual or semi-annual basis.
• Comply with VillageReach policies, including COVID-19 vaccine policy.
• Available for early evening meetings with African colleagues in the US.

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