Finance & Administrative Assistant

Job Responsibilities:

Financial

• Establishes and manages accounting record keeping systems and procedures for tracking and reporting.
• Under the supervision of the Finance Officer, he/she will be responsible for managing EPIC project expenditures, including daily payments that are duly approved in accordance with FHI 360 systems and procedures.
• Support the Finance Officer in preparing invoices and ensure that all transactions are fully and properly documented.
• The Finance & Admin Assistant must verify advance requests, travel expense reports, and operational expenses for accuracy and completeness and ensure that expense reports have been approved according to FHI 360 systems and procedures before making any payments.
• Support the finance and grants officer in tracking and processing funding requests and sub-grant reports.
• Works with project leaders to resolve problems associated with monthly expenditures and project budgets.
• Review and validate supporting documentation before processing of financial transactions to ensure all required documents are accurate and complete and authorizations are in place.
• Set and monitor sound accounting and financial reporting procedures for project/grant sub-recipients and partners following established standards.
• Ensure setup and maintenance of all data required for processing financial transactions for assigned project/grant accounts in GFAS financial accounting package.
• Assess, evaluate and monitor subrecipient financial management processes in accordance with policy and strengthen capacity of partner in financial accounting and transactions.
• Work on the SFR account reconciliation on a monthly basis and correct any variances timely manner.
• Make sure the SFR liquidation tracker is updated.

Administrative:

• Receives and distributes incoming mails and coordinates outgoing mails, including courier services, and interoffice mail distribution.
• Schedules meeting between partners and the organization.
• Assists with the preparation of materials for meetings and conferences. Provides meeting support as needed (e.g., scheduling conference rooms, coordinating food, logistics).
• Prepares and maintains documentation, plans, reports, schedules, databases, spread sheets, logs etc. to support functions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree or its International Equivalent.
• Minimum of three (3) years of accounting/finance and administrative support experience.
• Strong knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), budgeting and fiscal control theories and practices.
• Working knowledge of general office practices and administrative procedures.
• Uses established filing and data systems, functions, and/or procedures that require knowledge of the program.
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills; strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated spreadsheet and database software skills.
• Demonstrated excellent organizational and coordination skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to handle complex and confidential information with discretion.
• Ability to work well with others and verify and analyze financial data, identify errors and prepare reports.
• Gathers readily available information from office records to drafts e-mails, memos and other documents.
• Ability to proofread documents for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and basic formatting.
• Ability to gather, recommend and summarize data for reports, finds solutions to various administrative problems, and prioritizes work.
• Requires attention to detail in composing, typing and proofing materials, establishing priorities and meeting deadlines.
• Records and documents information accurately.
• Fluency in spoken, written, and reading in both English & French is required.

The expected hiring salary range for this role is  XAF  7,000,000 - 9,000,000 for annual gross salary for national local hire. When determining an offer amount, FHI 360 factors in multiple considerations, including but not limited to: relevant years of experience and education possessed by the applicant, internal equity, market pay,  and budget. For internal candidates, salary placement will also follow FHI 360’s current promotional increase guidelines.

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