Finance Officer - Mubi at Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Role and responsibilities

Generic responsibilities

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Implement delegated support function portfolio according to plan of action
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Ensure proper filing of documents 
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function

Specific responsibilities 

• Daily supervision of finance assistants
• Reconciliation of NRC bank accounts and cash boxes
• Establish a good tracking system for advances and ensure that clearance of advances is done on time.
• Ensure that weekly, monthly finance reports are prepared on time.
• Daily verification of POs, PRs Bid Analysis, per diem claim and other documents within the finance officer threshold
• Verify that all transactions have complete supporting documents and ensure that all costs are timely booked into Agresso on a daily, weekly and monthly basis 
• Support to ensure month end closure is completed according to the timeline provided in the finance handbook
• Support to verify the monthly National Staff Payroll and posting
• Follow up to ensure prompt processing of daily vendor payments and Ensure that all supporting documents are complete and accurate before payment is done.
• Ensure that all supporting documents are complete and accurate before payment is done.
• Travel to field sub-field office to monitor and support the finance assistants
• On a monthly basis Ensure all deductions are timely remitted to statutory authority according to the provision of the law. 
• Collaborate with the financial institutions to ensure that queries related to payments are timely resolved (return payments, under/over payments of staff, suppliers and contractors incorrect account details etc)
• Support the Finance Coordinator facilitate monthly BVA meetings, Project summary and spending plans
• Facilitate daily cash counts and safeguard of cash in the office.
• Facilitate audit activities
• Perform other related tasks that will be assigned by line manager 

Qualifications

Competencies 

Generic professional competencies: 

• Experience from working as a Finance officer in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Fluency in English and Hausa

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience: 

• Good skills in Excel and Word
• Good knowledge of accounting packages; preferably Agresso 
• Good knowledge to initiate finance SOPs 
• Good knowledge of the North – Eastern Nigeria context
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in similar position preferably with an NGO
• Minimum of University degree in related field

Behavioral competencies

• Handling insecure environment
• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect