Finance Officer at Tetra Tech Company

Job Overview

The Tetra Tech Nigeria Platform delivers support aimed at addressing some of Nigeria’s most pressing development, economic and governance challenges. Working with both the Federal and Subnational governments, Tetra Tech provides technical advisory, grant and project delivery expertise.

• Strengthening Peace and Resilience in Nigeria (SPRiNG): Supporting conflict prevention and community resilience across Northern Nigeria.
• Nigeria Economic Stability & Transformation (NEST): Driving inclusive economic reform and growth.
• Nigeria Public Finance Facility (NPFF): Improving public financial management

All projects are funded and governed by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), contributing to FCDO’s objectives of long-term stability, economic opportunity and effective public service delivery across Nigeria.
The Finance Officer will support the day-to-day financial operations of NPFF, NEST and SPRiNG. The role ensures accurate processing payments, maintenance of financial records, and compliance with Tetra Tech Finance Manual, donor regulations, and organisational procedures.

Main Duties
Financial Operation

• Process payments to consultants and suppliers by correctly raising and coding Bank Payment Vouchers on ApprovalMax and uploading complete supporting documents.
• Upload approved Bank Payment Vouchers to banking platform for approval by bank signatories.
• File all approved vouchers and the relevant evidence of payments on Egnyte.
• Download Evidence of Payments and share with Project Coordinators, Operations Team.
• Raise WHT invoices and vouchers for remittance to the relevant tax boards as mandated by law and safe evidence of payments on Egnyte.
• Raise Journals for acquittal of advances and correction of wrong postings as advised by the Finance Manager
• Process monthly payrolls by raising payment vouchers for Net salaries and Deductions.
• Assist the Finance Manager on any ad-hoc work including sourcing documents during internal and external audits.

Compliance & Records

• Ensure that all financial records are filed properly and in a timely manner.
• Provide accurate and timely responses to internal and external audit enquiries.

Aptitude And Skills

• Collaboration across the platform, its processes, and team members.
• Adherence to client and Tetra Tech financial and compliance processes and procedures.
• Adherence to timelines for project implementation.
• Client and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Risk management and knowledge sharing.

Essential

• Demonstrable, sustained experience in recurring accounting and finance activities, with a proven track record of delivering these responsibilities independently.
• Strong accounting, finance and administration skills.
• Experience supporting the preparation of financial reports.
• Experience supporting management and reconciliation of multi-country and multi-currency finances.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, and demonstrable experience working with finance and non-finance employees.
• Being able to prioritise and work with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.

Desirable

• Experience working on UK donor (FCDO) funded projects.
• Full or part-qualified accountant.
• Experience working with QuickBooks.
• Experience working with Approval Max.

Qualifications:

A university degree (or equivalent) in accounting or financial management.