Overview
The role is responsible for processing and recording accounting and payment transactions, ensuring compliance with NATO rules and regulations, and providing oversight of financial operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Process and record accounting and payment transactions, including troubleshooting, researching, and reconciling accounts payable, accounts receivable, encumbrance, and general ledger issues.
- Ensure expenditures, encumbrances, and general ledger transactions are recorded and accounted for in accordance with NATO rules, regulations, local policies, and IPSAS standards.
- Provide oversight of encumbrance and accounts payable operations, formulating recommendations for process improvement.
- Prepare, compile, and analyse NISRF accounts payable, encumbrance, and general ledger accounting statements, financial reports, and statuses of funds.
- Develop and update financial user training, conducting regularly scheduled financial training for Fund Managers and other staff.
- Produce and compile hard copy documentation related to audits and provide soft copy files required prior to, during, and follow-up to audits.
- Research and analyse detailed financial statement issues and propose solutions.
- Review and process accounting transactions for funds disbursement.
- Review outstanding encumbrances and their impact on the status of funds.
- Review and analyse programs and procedures related to the receiving, controlling, validating, recording, and reporting of accounting transactions.
Required Experience
- Two years of experience in finance & accounting
- Experience in Business Finance.
Qualifications
• Higher Secondary education and intermediate vocational training in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, public administration or related discipline which might lead to a formal qualification with 2 years experience, or Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 4 years post related experience.
