Project Accountant at Women Friendly Initiative (WFI)

Location: Kuje, Abuja
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Key Performance Indicators

• Program Management - USAID “Youth-Powered Ecosystem to Advance Urban Adolescent Health and Well-Being in Nigeria.” Project - (50%)
• WFI other project financial management – (50%)

Details
The successful candidate will:

• Work with the CEO, DOP and DAI to co-ordinate all financial transactions and operations, such that funds are provided to facilitate timely and smooth operations
• Ensure staff and consultants pay mandatory taxes (PAYE and WHT respectively) and same are remitted to appropriate bodies
• Produce and submit financial reports on projects to DAI, or the consortium as regularly as requested
• Prepare the various organization’s financial reports at regular intervals (monthly, quarter, half-year, annual) and Income/Expenditure, Balance Sheet and facilitate the process of auditing WFI’s accounts
• Check /Verify requests for payments, and purchase orders, prior to payment run, to ascertain whether sufficient project funding is available and that requests are charged to correct budget lines
• Prepare accurate and timely project financial reports
• Monitor organizational cash flow and deal with fund transfer request by donors in a timely manner whilst ensuring proper liquidation of previous advances
• Responsible for filling all organizational and donors’ financial returns in a systematic and secure manner for proper audit trail and easy retrieval
• Attend to queries regarding project reports/budgets in a timely manner to avoid delays to project plans attributable to late processing

Education

• A Bachelor's degree or Higher National Diploma in Accounting, Economics or related course with strong NGO experience.

Experience, Skills, and Minimum Qualifications

• Commitment to WFI’s core values and ideology.
• Passion for working with youth
• Minimum of three years’ post NYSC work experience in Accounting / Finance related role
• Previous experience in managing donor funds and supporting partner organizations working on USAID funded project
• Strong knowledge and experience applying USAID finance, procurement, contracting and grant management regulations.
• Excellent computer skills, particularly Excel & Word (MS Office in general)
• Strong working knowledge of one or more accountancy software applications (QuickBooks accounting package especially)
• Commitment to WFI’s core values and ideology.
• Passion for working with youth.
• Minimum of three years’ post NYSC work experience in Accounting / Finance related role
• Previous experience in managing donor funds and supporting partner organizations working on USAID funded project
• Strong knowledge and experience applying USAID finance, procurement, contracting and grant management regulations.
• Excellent computer skills, particularly Excel & Word (MS Office in general)
• Strong working knowledge of one or more accountancy software applications (QuickBooks accounting package especially)