Overview
This temporary post seeks an Accounting Specialist to support SOFCOM multinational budget requirements, focusing on cash management, treasury, finance, and accounting activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expertise and continuity for SOFCOM cash management, treasury, finance and accounting activities.
- Facilitate accurate and timely processing of transfers and distributions.
- Contribute to the revision of business processes, applications tools and workflow.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for team members and other departments.
- Identify and escalate operational emergencies and discrepancies.
- Maintain SOFCOM Official Accounts and monitor accounting records.
- Advise on the status of accounting records for separate budget, project, case and program holders.
- Analyze financial data of SOFCOM general ledger accounts and contribute to audit information collection.
- Prepare and update desk finance and accounting guidance for reimbursable projects.
- Prepare written responses to internal and external formal inquiries.
- Provide guidance and assistance for budget execution and customer service issues.
- Supervise reconciliations of reimbursable accounts and follow-up on outstanding credits.
- Monitor payroll accounting and liaise with HRM finance section.
- Liaise with the travel service provider for financial and performance reports.
- Prepare financial data for the official annual financial statement.
- Coordinate financial matters and IPSAS related accounting procedures with Section Head and/or Branch Head.
- Coordinate financial matters and related accounting procedures within the Branch for SOFCOM.
- Operate ERP modules for execution and follow-up of requests, payments, receipts, reports.
Required Experience
- Professional experience in finance, business management, accounting or economics.
- At least 3 years of experience as user and/or analyst of financial ERP modules such as Account Payable, Account Receivable, Purchasing, cash Management, general Ledger, and Travel.
- Broad experience in the analysis and reconciliation of accounts, cash flow and forecast, examination of vouchers, records and controls commitments, obligation and expenditure of funds.
- At least 3 years of experience with office-automated software packages, in particular, spreadsheets.
Qualifications
Higher Secondary education and completed higher vocational training in economics, accounting, business administration, public administration, finance, management or related discipline leading to a formal technical or professional certification with 3 years function related experience, or a Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 5 years post related experience.
