Overview
The Finance Assistant undertakes finance-related support activities of medium complexity, ensuring quality, transparency, and consistency of processes. The role requires in-depth knowledge and interpretation of financial policies, procedures, and practices, and provides procedural guidance to other staff.
Key Responsibilities
- Review source documents for completeness, accuracy and validity.
- Extract details of transactions from the integrated financial system in order to analyse and verify.
- Investigate errors, take corrective actions; perform reviews and ensure proper clearance procedures.
- Support continuous improvement efforts by participating in testing and implementation of new financial process automations.
- Assist in monitoring transactions, ensure ex-ante or post-factum due diligence is performed.
- Prepare worksheets and assist in preparation of reports by compiling and consolidating data from various sources.
- Draft and prepare correspondence and respond to queries.
- Evaluate ongoing financial support requirements, adapt service provision to meet changing needs and solve operational problems as required.
- Provide procedural guidance to staff, guide and train junior finance support staff.
- Perform other duties as required.
Required Experience
Four years of relevant experience in finance, accounting, cash management and/or asset management related support work.
Qualifications
Secondary School Education.
