Finance Assistant at GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON)

Contract Duration: 5 Months (renewable)

Applications close on the 28th of April 2023 at midnight (GMT-time). Applications submitted after this date will not be considered.

N/B: Due to the urgency of the position, GPON has the right to recruit a candidate who matches the required profile before the above deadline.

Background

GOALPrime Organization Nigeria (GPON) is a National Non-profit Non-Government Organization with a mandate of Making life better for vulnerable children and women across nations. Following the challenges children are facing to have adequate support from social services and institutions to access basic amenities for their growth and development across nations. GPON is saddled to provide complementary support to vulnerable children across nations to attain personal growth and development. GOALPrime Organization Nigeria is presently operating in Northeast Nigeria and FTC where we have reached over 2,000,000 lives (directly and indirectly) with integrated services, we support internally displaced persons with emergency relief materials, Child Protection services, WASH services, GBV mitigation services, Livelihood skill building, Health services, Peace building and Education support services. GPON work in both emergency and development context.

Who we are looking for:

• We are looking to recruit an intelligent worker to fill the role of the Finance Assistant, who will be responsible to provide support to manage the cash book payment, posting and cash count, support timely consolidation of base accountancy, support Finance Officer in daily management of the bank book: posting and reconciliation.

Responsibility

General and Office Administration:

• Support the Maiduguri program’s cash transfer implementation.
• Make payments and verify the consistency of supporting documents submitted in accordance with the GPON’s procedures, ensuring all invoices are accurate, consistent, and signed.
• Check the nature of all documents presented for retirements (photocopy, original, pro forma, translation, date, signature, stamp, terms used, accuracy of calculations, etc.).
• Manage the base cash box.
• Classify & split the invoices according to their budget lines, if necessary, particularly when they have been used in various operations. At the end of the monthly accountancy closure, prepare the files to be sent to capital (final checking of invoices and their presence.
• Check that all invoices and their amounts are present as from their reception and the coherence with the accountancy in excel file.
• Check that the accounting codes, the project codes, and the budget codes are accurate as per the attached PR or program allowance request form.
• Check that all the invoices are present for each transaction in the accountancy.
• Finalize the dispatch of files by adding labels and adequate packaging for the originals to be sent to capital.
• File and archive the copies in the base.
• Any other task assigned by the Finance Officer.

Technical Expertise, Skills, and Knowledge
Essential:

• A University Degree / HND, B.Sc. in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or any Finance related course.
• At least 1 year’ experience in an NNGO/international organization or development organization
• Exceptional organization, time management, and attention to detail.
• Professionalism, honesty, reliability, autonomy & strong sense of responsibility.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Strong computer skills particularly in MS excel, literacy and numeracy.
• Fluent in English.
• Committed to GPON values.
• Strong accounting skills.
• Ability to manage and follow work plans.
• Good use of accounting software (QuickBooks)
• Good interpersonal skills (communication, able to negotiate, influence, give effective feedback, be a team player).
• Able to manage stress effectively, juggle competing priorities, balance various programmatic, logistic and team needs.
• Capacity to build and maintain relationships and to work effectively in a multicultural and multi-ethnic environment respecting diversity.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook
• Ability to work under pressure and over-stretch.

Conditions

Availability:28.4.2023

Salary and conditions: In accordance with GPON Terms of Employment. The income will be subject to statutory deductions as per applicable Nigeria laws. The employee is responsible for the tax returns.