Overview
The Finance Technical Officer will ensure proper understanding and implementation of NRC’s financial policies and procedures, lead payroll operations for national staff, contingent workers, and expatriates, and manage country and area office payments.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure proper understanding and implementation of NRC’s financial policies and procedures.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of statutory requirements related to payroll, pensions, severance, and income tax.
- Ensure confidentiality and integrity of payroll and financial data.
- Ensure proper filing and archiving of all financial documents.
- Ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll and payments.
- Monitor and reconcile payroll-related accounts.
- Ensure timely and accurate payments to vendors, service providers, and staff.
- Responsible for monthly reconciliations and booking.
- Maintain awareness of NRC project timelines and financial reporting deadlines.
- Contribute to internal and external audit processes.
- Promote and share ideas for improvement of the Finance function.
- Lead payroll operations for national staff, contingent workers, and expatriates, ensuring compliance with Palestinian labor laws.
- Verify that vouchers and the supporting documents comply with NRC’s procedures.
- Coordinate with HR on payroll inputs, timesheets, and contracts; upload international timesheets monthly.
- Ensure payroll bookings in Agresso/Unit4 and perform yearly severance revaluation calculations and postings.
- Maintain accurate payroll audit documentation and support external/internal audit reviews.
- Manage country and area office payments (suppliers, utilities, rent, insurance), ensuring proper clearance of accruals.
- Review and oversee bank reconciliations prepared by Finance Technical Assistants and area offices.
- Clear accruals and prepayments and perform adjustments/reallocations for non-salary transactions.
- Support financial reporting and reconciliation processes for Cash Service Providers.
- Verify vouchers and supporting documents for compliance with NRC procedures.
- Ensure timely payments to cash service providers and perform daily/weekly reconciliations using Agresso.
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies identified during reconciliations and ensure timely adjustments.
- Support the Finance Coordinator with monthly accountancy tasks and any other reasonable tasks assigned by management.
Required Experience
Experience in financial policies and procedures, payroll operations, statutory requirements related to payroll, pensions, severance, and income tax, payroll and financial data management, financial document archiving, payroll and payment processing, payroll-related account reconciliation, vendor and staff payments, monthly reconciliations and booking, project timelines and financial reporting deadlines, internal and external audit processes, payroll operations for national staff, contingent workers, and expatriates, compliance with Palestinian labor laws, voucher verification, HR coordination for payroll inputs, timesheets, and contracts, Agresso/Unit4 payroll bookings, severance revaluation calculations and postings, payroll audit documentation, country and area office payments, accrual clearance, bank reconciliation oversight, accrual and prepayment clearance, adjustment/reallocation for non-salary transactions, financial reporting and reconciliation for Cash Service Providers, Agresso daily/weekly reconciliations, and discrepancy investigation and resolution.
