Accountant at Medecins Sans Frontieres

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Controlling the daily cash and check management and ensuring that all receipts and documentation meet MSF requirements (procedures, deadlines, information, signatures ...). Tracking bills/vouchers, invoices and other running costs and analyzing the related information (costs, service contracts ...) in order to give reliable and updated information.
• Controllingcash advances and cashbook movements for each petty cash box, recording all IN and Out transactions, ensuring that cashbox balances always reflect the actual amount of money kept in the cashboxes and investigating any discrepancy. Ensuring strict compliance with cash control procedures for each cashbox / currency (daily cash control, weekly cash inventory and reconciliations)
• Performing currency exchange operations in accordance with the country's exchange rate policy
• Ensuring monthly accounts report in accordance with MSF procedures, checking individual entries and preparing the necessary administrative documents (originals) as a basis for justification and explanation of payments and receipts made.
• Preparing the timely payment of taxes .
• Being responsible for the processing of accounting software peripheral accounting (project and capital) including checking the quality of the mission accounting allocations and their conformity (correct encoding of salaries, following up and matching of internal transfers and advances in the mission, checking invoices and their allocations, preparing payment order documents to be sent to HQ). Analyzing the problems of the cash box discrepancies and giving technical help to find solutions.
• Being responsible for filing accounting documents and their annexes, preparing documents for audits, organizing the scanning of documents and archiving mission financial documents
• Informing supervisors of any issues / problems that may arise in their job performance.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities

• Preparation of payments and encoding of transaction into MSF accounting software.
• Ensure accurate and up to date encoding of Unifield to guarantee a proper closure of month and scanning of accounting vouchers.
• Ensure all types of Taxes are collected, remitted to the appropriate authority and send the proof to respective suppliers.
• Ensure for the implementation of MSF- financial policies, procedure, and SOPs before processing any payment.
• Contract Management, cost analysis and budget follow-up for the construction of new projects.
• Performing any other tasks within the scope of his role, as directed by supervision and according to the needs of the mission.

Minimum Required Skills and Qualifications
Education:

• Bachelors in Accounting essential.
• Professional Certification in Accounting, Business, Banking and Management desirable.

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in accounting and administration with MSF, other INGO/NGO or Private setting/context.
• Experience in relatively insecure field-based environment is desirable.

Languages:

• Mission and local language (English, Igbo, Pidgin English) essential (high level command oral and written
• Knowledge Computer literacy intermediate level (word, excel) with ability to use Finance/A counting software is essential. Knowledge working in UniField is desirable.
• Competencies Results and Quality Orientated, Teamwork and Cooperation, Behavioural Flexibility, Commitment to MSF Principles, Stress Management