ACCOUNT ANALYST – CARE Ethiopia
Accounting and Finance
CARE Ethiopia
CARE Ethiopia
CARE started working in Ethiopia in 1984 in response to severe drought and famine that devastated the population and claimed the lives of nearly one million people. Since then, the organization’s activities have expanded to address the root causes of poverty and vulnerability.
In 2008, CARE Ethiopia’s office moved from a project-based approach to a more focused and strategic program-based approach. Over the eight years since that transition, CARE Ethiopia has implemented a series of programs with successful outcomes, while simultaneously impacting the policies and practices of government, serving as a thought leader amongst NGOs, and bringing transformative change to rural communities. These broader and deeper impacts go beyond the direct impacts of its programs and are a result of CARE Ethiopia’s overall country strategy, which enables CARE to design for scale.
CARE Ethiopia works in various sectors but has particularly targeted the following:
· Food Security and Resilience
· WASH
· Nutrition
· Sexual and Reproductive Health and
· Emergency Response as cross-cutting (focusing on the above sectors).
CARE is an international NGO with local staff and community partners in more than 90 countries. We create local solutions to poverty and inequality, and we seek dignity for everyone every day and during times of crisis. These solutions have a broad range, from clean water to access to education; from microfinance to ensuring that everyone has nutritious food; from agriculture and climate change to disaster response. CARE puts women and girls at the center of everything we do because they have proven to be the best hope for creating lasting change in the world. Our staff live where they work, which makes us effective at understanding the challenges they face. We’ve been doing this for over 70 years, since World War II. It started with the world’s first CARE Package® of food for the post-war hungry in Europe. Our work today is as important as ever, we believe that poverty and inequality are historic injustices that we can end within a generation, for good. If you share our core beliefs: poverty is an injustice; poverty is solvable; and together, we have the power to end it, join us.
I Job Summary
The purpose of the accounts analyst FO position is to make sure accurate and full documentation for disbursements are used in the overall accounts payable (AP) and receivable functions and to ensure consistency and accuracy of data in both hard copy and data in People Soft (accounting software).
The Account Analyst is responsible for preparing journal entries and payment vouchers, processing financial transactions, entering data into uploading templates, making reconciliation and preparing reports. S/he also verifies all source documents for proper approval and documentation.
II Responsibilities
Job Responsibility #1: Processing financial transactions and disbursements (40%)
Verify and ensure that required documentation and authorization is presented before effecting payments and encoding data into the system
Initiate AP vouchers, upload attachments for review by approver and submit vouchers for online approval
Generate online vouchers; prepare checks and cash transfer letters; and facilitate the handover of vouchers, checks and transfer letters to the assistant account
Prepare journal entries for accruals, cash collections, transfers, correction, adjustments, and petty cash replenishments
Job Responsibility #2: Cash Management (30%)
- Maintain the cash book of the FO; proactively inform Head of Finance of the office on cash situation so that the various bank accounts are at the right cash balance amount
- Maintain the cash book of the office; proactively inform head of finance of the office on cash position so that the various bank accounts are at the right cash balance amount
- Assist head of finance for the office in the periodic cash forecasts and monthly bank reconciliations
- Review regular petty cash/work advance replenishment requests
Job Responsibility #4: Reporting (20%)
- Prepare weekly cash balance report
- Assist head of finance in preparing cross charging, tax obligations and other reports
- Ensure that all disbursement and collection financial documents are fully documented and handed over to the assistant accountant for checks dispatch and archiving
- Maintain AP collection and disbursement tracking sheet for full and timely follow up on lead times
Job Responsibility #5: Other (10%)
- Provide all required FGMS/People Soft data for Auditing purpose
- Assist in the periodic inventory count representing Finance
- Perform other duties as required and assigned by head of finance
III GENDER EQUALITY
- Understanding and demonstrated commitment to the importance of gender, youth, and social inclusion issues.
- Demonstrated commitment to principles of Gender Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and PSEAH (safeguarding), as evidenced in previous positions / programming
IV Qualifications
- Diploma/BA degree in accounting.
- 2 years of relevant work experience for diploma holders
- 1 year of relevant work experience for first degree
- Minimum of 6 months Care internship service
- NGO experience is a plus
Skills Required
- As per Job Description
