State Finance Assistant - Kebbi State - Nigeria Integrated Health Program at Palladium Group

Location  Kebbi Application Link

              Sokoto Application Link

Reports to Finance Manager
Duration: 5 years

Project Overview and Role

• Palladium seeks a Finance Assistant for the five-year, USAID-funded Nigeria Integrated Health Program, an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems
• It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas: family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea. It has a strong emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and learning.
• This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results
• Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through agreements with individual states, its potential breadth is the entire country with an emphasis on the north.

Description

• The Finance Assistant is a full-time position to support the Finance Manager in the awarded USAID/Nigeria funded project entitled Nigeria Integrated Health Program.

Responsibilities

• Regularly maintain and update financial records including checking, verifying, and recording the project’s financial transactions
• Check, process and record all the payments, administer invoices and expenses claims received, and code items to approved budgets
• Support the Financial Analyst with the cash transfer requests
• Maintain finance tracking systems for advances, Level of Effort (LOE), Work Orders, charge codes etc.,
• Filing, scanning, duplicating, and shipping of field vouchers to the US Office every month
• Support with procurement and purchasing and other contractual requirements
• Collected and record the employees’ time sheet for project office file (bi-weekly)
• Support the State Finance Office to manage the project’s assets and ensure accurate Assets Register maintained
• Other duties as assigned 

Candidate Requirements

• University graduate in Financial Management, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics or other relevant field.
• At 0-3 years of professional work experience
• Able to communicate effectively and excellent interpersonal skills to form effective working relationships at all levels;
• High level of computer literacy;
• Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive issues and maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times;
• Cross-functional team player;
• Results oriented and attention to detail;
• Proven experience in managing expenditures within budget.