Finance Assistant

Danish Refugee Council

Tunis, Tunisia

Experience: 0 to 3 Years

Skill Required: Accounts and Finance

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Bank and Cash transactions:

  • Coordinate with HQ for balance accounts cleanup for the former North Africa Regional Office Clean up.
  • Coordinate with legal auditors for financial statements audit and legal status updates for DRC
  • Ensure all payments (Bank and cash) are made timely and in accordance with the existing DRC forms.
  • Ensure all payments meet the requirements of National Law and engage with authorities, tax advisors or other stakeholders to ensure tax requirements are met accordingly.
  • Verifying that any transaction is supported by proper supporting documentation as per DRC’s financial rules and regulations and proper authorization is obtained prior to releasing a payment.
  • Prepare the bank payments and liaise with the bank.
  • Manage petty cash and clear cash advances upon request.

Dynamics record keeping:

  • Establish, maintain and reconcile the general ledger.
  • Ensure all expenses enter the DRC Dynamics in time and of highest quality (Along with support documents). (D/W/M)
  • Prepare Monthly cash counts.

Vendor/staff payments:

  • Ensure all payments are made timely and in accordance with the existing DRC forms.
  • Verifying that any transaction is supported by proper supporting documentations as per DRC’s financial rules and regulation and proper authorization is obtained prior releasing a payment.

Filing and Archiving:

  • Maintain proper filing of all financial documentation (vouchers, contracts, tender documents, etc.) Hard & Soft Copies.
  • Scanning for financial documents as needed and attaching them to Dynamics per each posting.
  • Routine record keeping.

DRC Dynamics and Digitalization and reporting:

  • Follow up the correct implementation of DRC Dynamics (Finance Module) and the quality of the data entered in the system.
  • Monitoring accuracy and timely update of master data in dynamics for Coordination Office.
  • Manage digital spaces like Share point (Finance)

About you:

To be successful in this role we expect you to have a minimum of two (2) years’ experience working in a similar position. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required:

  • Strong written and mathematical skills.
  • Strong computer skills.
  • Experience of managing and handling cash
  • Experience of working with UN or Non-Governmental organizations.
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Ability to prioritize large and changeable workload
  • Good communication skills and ability to work as part of a team
  • Able to work independently and energetically
  • Relevant university degree (Finance, Accounting) or similar education.
  • Fluent in spoken and written English.
  • Fluency in French and Tunisian languages is a must

Source: https://job.drc.ngo/jobs/job?id=169174