Overview
The Finance Officer will ensure adherence to financial policies and procedures, manage payments, and maintain financial records.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure timely payment of contractors, suppliers and other expenditures and verify that vouchers and supporting documents meet NRC standards before payment.
- Assist and review of partners submission of paperwork and spot checking of transactions.
- Perform daily bookkeeping and utilize the NRC Agresso accounting system.
- Check and verify all the supporting documents (purchase requests, purchase orders, quotations, authorization of payment, etc.) and ensure they comply with NRC’s procedures.
- Record budget allocations and accounting codes of the expenses.
- Record VAT for all invoices on monthly basis and ensure proper filing.
- Ensure sufficient cash in the bank and in the cash boxes and that cash payments are made properly.
- Ensure that cash and bankbooks records are updated on daily basis, ensuring that all coding is in line with donor and country coding structure.
- Prepare payments for all centralized commitments including NSSF, income tax, consultants and vendors; in accordance with NRC’s financial procedures and contract policies, according to law of the country, where the transaction has taken place.
- Coordinate with Finance teams in different areas regarding cost allocations of basic running costs, before recording.
- Support and lead (when asked) with budget allocation and forecasts.
- Perform the role of Acting Finance Coordinator in the absence of Finance Coordinator.
- Perform other Finance related tasks as requested.