Overview
This temporary post is for a Finance and Accounting Officer responsible for the financial, accounting, and related administrative aspects of NSATU in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Key Responsibilities
- Serves as NSATU Finance and Accounting Officer with overall responsibility for financial, accounting, and related administrative aspects.
- Ensures adherence to principles of propriety, accountability, and transparency.
- Controls and approves commitments and payments.
- Maintains financial accounts in Fins invoices.
- Ensures proper travel management.
- Manages and reports Nation Borne Costs (NBCs) and other reimbursable costs.
- Oversees and enforces compliance with procedures for the use of Official Hospitality and Representation funds.
- Organizes end-of-year closure and reporting for yearly Financial Statements.
- Ensures financial and accounting aspects sent to SHAPE are accurate, timely, and comply with NAF standards.
- Provides guidance to the NSATU appointed Property Accountable Officer.
- Reviews property management records.
- Acts as Finance Representative of the Property Survey Board (PSB).
- Provides input to and/or coordinates with SHAPE for the development of financial SOPs/SOIs.
- Develops internal procedures and SOPs to improve finance and accounting processes.
- Assists and supports other sections with professional advice.
- Collects information for audit and control by internal and external audit teams.
- Manages interim and final audits.
Required Experience
- Professional experience as an accountant or financial officer in a large national or multi-national organization.
- Extensive knowledge of financial management principles and accounting techniques.
- Ability to use professional judgement to make decisions and deal authoritatively and diplomatically with a wide variety of problems.
- At least 4 years of relevant experience as an accountant in a commercial or governmental organization (desirable).
- Extensive experience with operation of automated accounting systems (desirable).
- In-depth knowledge of office automation software packages (i.e.- Microsoft Office) (desirable).
- Experience and knowledge in the application of NATO financial rules and regulations (desirable).
- Experience with the NATO Automated Financial System and/or Oracle Financials (desirable).
Qualifications
- Degree in finance, accounting, business administration, economics, public administration or related discipline and 4 years post related experience, or Higher Secondary education and completed advanced vocational training in that discipline leading to a professional qualification or professional accreditation with 7 years post related experience.
- Once selected the candidate must attend the required preparatory training such as functional training before deployment at SHAPE and formal software training on the Bi-SC Automated Information System (AIS) Financial System (FinS).
