Overview
The purpose of the officer position is day-to-day implementation of the support functions responsibilities. The role involves ensuring adherence to NRC policies, implementing delegated financial functions, and preparing financial reports.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
- Implement delegated financial function portfolio according to plan of action as well as to Financial Handbook and other NRC policies including SOP’s
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
- Maintain the filling system for all financial and accounting documents and ensure filing of all financial documents according to NRC standards
- Prepare monthly financial reports and send all relevant documents
- Support project staff in financial matters
- Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
- Verify that vouchers and supporting documents meet NRC standards before payment
- Be responsible for payments to Partners
- Provide inputs to Partners’ agreements at the negotiation stage and follow up during the Implementation stage
- Verify Partners’ financial reports, ensure that all supporting documents meet NRC standards, clear and eligible
- Conduct meetings with Partners at the stage of negotiation, prepare presentations for induction and information sessions
- Be on stand by for the support of new partners with trainings and be able to discover problems during implementation period
- Ensure that all costs are timely booked into Agresso
- Be responsible to write transactions numbers on the vouchers and label financial documents
- Prepare bank accounts reconciliations
- Ensure implementing of the routine for securing supporting documentation in a digital format
- Assist to the Finance Coordinator (FC) and the Finance Manager (FM) in internal and external audits and preparing donor reports
- Verification of financial transactions per projects
- Any other tasks as assigned
Required Experience
- Experience from working as a Finance Officer/Accountant in a humanitarian/recovery context
- Professional knowledge of auditing/accounting
- Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Experience from working with local financial institutions and tax authorities
- Experience with start-up of humanitarian/recovery or related programmes is an asset
Qualifications
• First Professional Degree
