Finance Officer at Marie Stopes

OBJECTIVES:

• Implement accounting and internal control systems to protect against fraud, waste, and misuse of financial resources while ensuring segregation of duties in the processing of transactions.
• Prepare bank reconciliation report and income report on a monthly basis.
• Monitor budgets to ensure that spending occurs as planned, review budget amount against actual expenditures, and prepare variance analysis report on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Daily transaction input into Marie Stopes International’s SUN system.
• Ensure that expenses are properly coded and allocated to the relevant cost centres/projects within the region.
• Review and process cash requests/retirements. Periodic review of staff accounts and proper allocation of retired expenses against the cash advance.
• Management of the petty cash/float at the region.
• Work closely with the Regional Manager to Collate quarterly budgets from the Team Members.
• Contribute to monthly management and periodic statutory reports/meetings.
• Ensuring regional field office funds requests are in line with specific project budget and allowable expenses.
• Ensure the remittance of all statutory deductions to appropriate authorities within the region.
• Timely payments to Mobilizers, casual/contract staff, providers of products and services
• Coordinate payments for all project activities.
• Ensure proper controls are placed at centre/clinic and provide support to centre manager(s) in time.
• Ensure WHT’s are being deducted and deposited to authorities/states in time
• Ensure that expenses/retirements are properly filed are the regional office.
• Ensure assets are properly accounted for and maintained at the regional level.
• Post and report monthly clinic/SF income in the region.
• Work closely with the regional procurement committee to ensure that MSION procurement policy is adhered to.
• Monitor the monthly/periodic stocktaking at the region.
• Any other task assigned by Line Manager, Regional Manager, and any other superior officer.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• B.Sc./HND Accounting preferred master’s degree holder with ACA qualification or equivalent.
• 3 – 5 years post NYSC experience in a similar role with an INGO/NGO, private or public organisation
• Ability to use SUN Accounting package.
• A good team player with interpersonal skills.
• Ability to multitask, manage workload and produce high-quality, on-time work and reports.

Note: There are no relocation allowances available for this position.