Finance Assistant Job at Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger | ACF-International works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health, and advocacy.

Action Against Hunger has been working in Nigeria since 2010. From 2014 to 2015, we doubled the volume of our operations in response to the crisis, meeting the humanitarian needs of 2.1 million people with health and nutrition programs; clean water and sanitation to reduce malnutrition and disease; emergency cash transfers to help displaced people purchase food or meet other urgent needs; and longer-term food security initiatives. In 2016, we scaled up our programs in Nigeria even further, yet again doubling the volume of our operations to meet rising needs, despite an extremely challenging environment.

Job Title: Finance Assistant

Location: Dutse, Jigawa State
Starting date: As Soon As Possible
Direct Line Manager: Finance Officer

Objective 1

• Responsible for the base field payment.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Visit the fields during various programs/activities to make payments.
• Support the program’s cash transfer implementation.
• Make payments and verify the consistency of supporting documents submitted in accordance with the AAH procedures, ensuring all invoices are accurate, consistent, and signed.
• Review all documents submitted for payments. (Photocopy, original, pro forma, translation, date, signature, stamp, and terms used, the accuracy of calculations, etc.)

Objective 2

• Ensure compliance of the supply chain guidelines and payment mode.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Respect AAH purchasing procedures as per KLV3 when giving an advance and to report to Finance Officer and Finance Manager if these procedures are not respected.
• Ensure that Logistics and PMs comply with the supply chain guidelines.
• Liaise with the Log department for any discrepancies and missing procedures.
• Clear and release cash advances with logistics/programs.

You may also like this; Nigerian Navy List of Successful Candidates (Batch 29B)

Objective 3

• File and archive the documents.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Check that all invoices/supporting documents and their amount corresponds to the cash voucher total value.
• Photocopy and file all the invoices/documents (base financial books) according to the monthly base book-keeping before sending to Capital office for archiving.
• Maintain bank, supplier contracts, PAYE, vendor & all other finance relevant contracts in finance department.
• Verify & cross-check all base monthly financial documents are correctly allocated & completed as per AAH archiving guidelines
• Assist Base Finance Officer in archiving financial files as per AAH archiving guidelines

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree / HND in Accounting, Management, Finance or related field; MBA or similar higher Degree will be a plus.
• Minimum of one year experience in a similar role.

Skills and Experience
Essential:

• 1 year of experience in one or more of the following areas: Administration, HR, Finance, Logistics.
• Exceptional organization and planning skills, ability to manage and follow work plans.
• Highly developed interpersonal, communication, able to negotiate, influence, give effective feedback, be a team player.
• Able to manage stress effectively, juggle competing priorities, balance various programmatic, logistic and team needs.
• Champion of AAH Charter values of: Professionalism, Transparency, Neutrality, Access to Victims and  Non-Discrimination.

Preferred:

• Previous INGO experience.
• Experience with donor-funded programs.
• Experience supervising others.

Minimum Basic Salary
NGN156,995 per Month

Application Deadline
24th September 2020.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Qualified women are strongly encouraged to apply.