Project Accountant at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

DUTIES:

• Prepare monthly activity report for all the IITA/AALI Hosting Agreement Cost Centers.
• Consolidate all reports from the stations into a single report for management purpose.
• Review transactions and resolves issues arising thereof.
• Handle Hosting agreement financial reports and re-imbursement to IITA.
• Provide timely justification of partners’ financial reports.
• Handle AALI’s consolidated justification reports and retrieves all backup support documents for PDAU and Donor reporting.
• Prepare and reviews ALLI’s different partnership agreements, and mapping/categorization of the respective expenses in line with Donor Report requirement.
• Participate in the initial budget development for each of the Hosting agreement Cost Centers.
• Monitor budget against actual spending, including compliance with instituted controls.
• Prepare monthly Bank Reconciliation and handles imprest reports, including attendant controls.
• Verify all partners’ expenses based on the support documents submitted with the financial reports on various AALI projects.
• Review all staff cost-related payments charged to AALI’s Cost Centers for propriety and correctness.
• Process AALI’s staff travel advances, claims and reimbursement.
• Handle AALI Fixed Asset register, including tagging and reconciliation.
• Perform any other job-related task as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

QUALIFICATION:

• Masters in Finance, Accounting or any related field with a minimum of six (6) years’ experience performing similar role in a well-structured environment, possession of ACA/ACCA would be an added advantage.

COMPETENCIES:

The ideal candidate must:

• Have strong analytical mind, with hands-on experience in any major ERP/ computer application e.g. Oracle application.
• Have excellent MS Office competence.
• Have a very pleasant personality, good team player, honest and good command of both written and oral English.