Finance Officer at Christian Aid

About the role
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring that cash and bank books are maintained in an efficient way, timely production of monthly accounts and returns. H/She will manage aspect of financial reporting, budgeting, auditing and other compliance related issues in line with Christian Aid and institutional donor’s policies and procedures. H/She will support in improving the capacity of Christian Aid programme staff to understand the organization’s and donor financial standards and ensure adherence to all requirement.

About you
The post holder is responsible for providing support to Christian partnerships in capacity building and management of all compliance functions. The ideal candidate must have:

Essential criteria

• Degree in accounting or its equivalent
• 2-3 years working experience in similar post for a local NGO or an INGO
• Knowledge of financial standards required by donors, local financial standards and legal framework
• Experience in working with financial accounting procedures and reviewing financial reports, creating and monitoring budgets and working with compliance regulations.
• Considerable experience in delivering financial training using different methodologies.
• Experience in using excels spread sheet and word processing packages and other account reporting tools.

Desirable criteria

• Qualified IFAC accountant
• Knowledge of institutional donor requirements. Eg DFID, USAID, GF etc
• Experience in dealing with institutional donor fund accounting.
• Experience in using computerised financial reporting tools.