Finance Assistant at Unique Care and Support Foundation (CASFOD)

Role Purpose: 

This position supports the finance department with annual operating and capital budget preparation, and performs clerical tasks related to financial record-keeping and processes, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Ensures that all payments are made against sufficient, complete, correct, and relevant supporting documents duly verified and approved by concerned managers or budget holders.
• Collects working /program advance and make various payments as per the authorization and approval of budget holders and in accordance with CASFOD finance policy.
• Ensures that all payment documents bear ‘CASFOD Paid’ stamp.
• Summarizes expenses using relevant expense codes duly authorized by responsible person and timely settle all project advances before placing a request for another advance.
• Ensures that Government withholding tax is deducted from service fees to hotels, resources persons etc…
• Assist the finance officer in scanning of documents, documentation/filing of reports.
• Ensure that all collections and payments are done against serially pre-numbered cash receipt and cash payment vouchers.
• Always keeps cash, cheques, and PVs in the safe.
• Maintain petty cash fund and prepares cash report with all supporting documents and gets replenished upon reviewed by the Finance officer FC and approved by the authorize person.
• Ensure weekly and monthly cash count is done and the count sheet prepared and approved.
• Reconcile cash accounts with financial documents and update the cash book regularly. 
• Perform all other duties related to the position.

Qualifications and Experience: 

• Minimum educational requirement:  First Degree / Diploma in Accounting/Business Administration, Banking. 
• Minimum experience required: Two Years Demonstrated experience in disbursement related activities in NGO setting and knowledge about project funding and compliance requirements.
• Willingness experience of working on out of working hours with extensive filed travels.
• Good understanding of project implementation process.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency in written and verbal English, including business terminology. 
• Excellent and demonstrated skills in computer system, MS-Excel & MS-word.
• Ability to travel as needed.

CASFOD will require applicants to self-declare prior issues of sexual or other misconduct, termination of past employment, criminal records, and concerns registered with government authorities regarding contact with children, and to consent to the disclosure of any such information by their former employers during verification of references.