The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that carries out high quality, policy relevant research on population, health and education issues facing sub-Saharan Africa.
The Center seeks to contract a Financial Accountant (Temporary Position) on full time basis to provide leave coverage for three months.
Responsibilities
1) Payments Recording
- Ensuring payment documents are properly supported and duly approved during posting. This includes checking whether all expenditures have project allocation.
- Posting allocation of stationery, printing, photocopying and other shared resources allocations to projects.
- Preparation of report for Payment Vouchers and cheques to ensure that they are all accounted for.
2) Financial Reporting & General Finance
- Providing support for financial transactions for project reporting as necessary.
- Ensuring proper filling and maintenance of accounting record.
3) Bank Reconciliations
- Preparation of bank reconciliations.
- The bank reconciliations have to be submitted for review by 5th of every month.
4) Payroll – Consultants Fees Processing
- Preparation of field staff fees payments ensuring they are properly approved and supported and processing them through Creative Consolidated Management Systems.
5) VAT and Withholding Tax
- Making payment for VAT and withholding tax and making sure returns are filed as per the statutory deadlines.
Requirements
- Bachelors’ degree in a relevant field plus final professional qualification (e.g. CPA K, ACCA)
- At least three years’ post qualification experience in a similar position
- Excellent skills in MS Excel
- Experience in Navision (MS Dynamics) accounting software preferred.
This is a three months contract.
The position is to be filled immediately.
Applications are to be sent online to jobs@aphrc.org, please indicate position applied for on the subject line.
Application Deadline: 17th August 2015
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