Finance Officer at The Nigeria Climate Innovation Center (NCIC)

The Finance Officer will support the broad NCIC accounting and finance activities, which may include work in any of the areas of internal, corporate, and external engagement. The tasks include contribution to NCIC overall activities and partnerships through the following areas of work:

Key Accountabilities

• Manage finance operational systems, processes and policies -specifically, better
• management reporting, information flow and management, business process and
• organisational planning
• Play a significant role in long-term planning, including an initiative geared toward
• operational excellence
• Management of NCIC budget in coordination with the COO
• Invoicing to funding sources, including calculation of completed units of service
• Implementation of NCIC Tax processes
• Organisation of fiscal documents
• Be responsible for Accounting policy and governance
• Cash flow management and liquidity (specifically relating to Company Finance Policy)
• Oversee day to day processing of accounts
• Reconcile monthly activity, generating year-end reports, and fulfil tax related requirements

Personal Competencies

• Team Player
• Communication (Oral and Written)
• Prioritisation and conflict management
• People management skills
• Collaboration
• Drive for Success
• Technical Competencies
• Use basic and popular operational accounting software
• MS Office; including Outlook, Access, Word & Excel
• Knowledge of VAT, tax and other compliance implications of non and for-profit status

Experience

• At least 3 years in Financial & Operations Management
• Strong background and work in Development Finance with industry standard
• certifications
• Not-for -profit accounting and annual reporting using industry standard reporting
• frameworks
• Budget development and oversight
• Project coordination