Finance Associate
The Kaizen Company
Lokasi pekerjaan
Addis Ababa
Status Pekerjaan
Waktu penuh
Detail Pekerjaan
About The Kaizen Company:
Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company is an international development consulting firm and an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven organizational and institutional performance improvements and establish communities of practice that facilitate peer-to-peer learning and the achievement of shared goals. We aspire to transform the nature and impact of development assistance and work to strengthen organizations and institutions through innovative approaches to organizational development, reform, and change.
We are seeking a Finance Associate for the Ethiopia Learning Analytics Activity. The Finance Associate will be a long-term position based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and working out of the Activity office. This position will have a clearly defined role and scope of work and will be supervised by Finance and Administration Specialist.
Location: Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Responsibilities and Tasks
Responsibilities and tasks will include, but are not limited to:
• Review and understand the process for preparing and submitting monthly field report
• Prepare disbursement vouchers, file vouchers and stamp the documents as ‘PAID’
• Support disbursement of vouchers and journal entries
• Conduct petty cash reconciliation
• Receive and verify orders (when placed by the Project Coordinator)
• Place orders as needed.
• Organize and track all documents to and from Finance and Administration department
• Review payment requests against receipts provided
• Arrange payments to suppliers, subcontractors, and subgrantees
• Review purchase requisitions
• Understand and manage the maintenance of electronic, scanned, and manual filing systems for all financial and administration documents
• Carry out inventory reconciliation and tagging and numbering of assets
• Reconcile office supplies, requisition consumables, and stationery from stores
• Assist in the documentation and gathering necessary information to prepare a VAT report and other financial reports
• Other finance and administration areas as needed
Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
• Degree in Accounting, Business Administration (B. Com, BBA) or comparable certifications/qualifications
• Proficiency in Microsoft office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in English (both oral and written)
• Must demonstrate initiative and proactiveness
• Must possess professional demeanour and ability to work in a team environment
• High degree of integrity
Preferred
• * Knowledge of USAID regulations relating to financial management and reporting
