Overview
The Finance Technical Officer will support the line manager in financial procedures, budget monitoring, and financial reporting. The role involves ensuring adherence to NRC policies and standards, facilitating financial process improvements, and managing payments.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
- Support line manager in financial procedures and maintaining regular budget monitoring and performing required team training.
- Plan and implements activities and ensure the implementation of policy and standards
- Support line manager in developing post audit improvement plans and implementing the same in respective for internal and external audits.
- Maintain the filling system for all financial and accounting documents and ensure filing of all financial documents according to NRC standards
- Prepare monthly financial reports and send all relevant documents
- Assist line manager developing a capacity building plan for finance staff and non-finance staff on Finance procedures, donor regulation.
- Facilitate the introduction of new ideas, technology, methods and approaches to improve the quality of financial processes.
- Contribute to specific protection risks and needs analysis
- Process spending plans with program teams
- Update the Master Budget and Donor budgets on FC/ASM request
- Analyse the financial information and prepare presentations to program teams
- Verify that all vouchers and supporting documents comply with NRC standards prior to payment processing.
- Manage payments to suppliers, contractors, and project participants in accordance with NRC policies and procedures.
- Ensure the Cash and Corporate card procedures are carried out in line with NRC’s financial procedures.
- Ensure the reports from the EAO partners within the Flexible mini grant (FMG) modality following NRC’s financial procedures.
- Ensure timely and accurate posting of all costs into Agresso on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
- Ensure the accuracy of the information that entered into 1C accounting programme, finance databases for reporting to the Pension Fund.
- Prepare and maintain bank account reconciliations.
- Ensure timely payments to the vendors, contractors and suppliers, etc., following NRC’s financial procedures and contract policies.
- Support of the finance staff in maintaining an accurate and complete accounting database.
- Follow up on reconciliation of deliverables from a financial perspective.
- Assist the Finance Coordinator and Finance Manager during internal and external audits.
- Responsible for the month-end closing within the stipulated period, with close coordination with the Finance Coordinator.
- Verify purchase requisitions (PRs) and purchase orders (POs) for compliance.
- Support Budget Holders in preparing spending plans, donor budgets, and master budgets upon request from the Finance Coordinator.
- Prepare Budget vs Actual (BvA) presentations and conduct project utilization assessments as requested by FC.
- Perform any additional tasks assigned by the Area Office Coordinator to support the finance function.
Required Experience
- Experience from working as a Finance in a humanitarian/recovery context – 3 years
- Experience in NGO Finance – 3 years
- Experience with Agresso ERP system – 3 years
- Experience with start-up of humanitarian/recovery or related programmes is an asset
Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree
