Senior Finance Officer (Maternity Cover) – Marie Stopes International Ethiopia
Accounting and Finance
Marie Stopes International Ethiopia
Marie Stopes International (MSI) is one of the largest international Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) and Family Planning (FP) organizations in the world. We are a results oriented social enterprise that develop efficient, effective and sustainable SRH/FP programmes around the world.
Marie Stopes International Ethiopia (MSIE), a partner of MSI, is currently undertaking a dramatic scale-up of health service delivery for low income women and couples in Ethiopia. This includes expanding services in clinics and rural outreach programs into new regions of Ethiopia and creating social franchising networks of private quality service providers. MSIE announces information about job vacancies widely and encourages applications from all sectors of the community. MSIE considers all applicants based on their abilities and will ensure no group is disadvantaged on the basis of disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, economic or social class, sex, HIV/AIDs status and political affiliation.
MSIE also implements a Safeguarding Policy to safeguard and protect the rights of staff, children, young people and vulnerable sections of the community and to this end, successful candidates will need to sign MSIE’s ‘code of conduct’ and undergo a background check. The Safeguarding Policy includes an adult Safeguarding, dignity at work place, child safeguarding, human trafficking and anti-slavery, sexual harassment, equality and diversity. MSIE applies zero tolerance approach for the violation such policies.
MSIE is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to hiring and retaining female employees. The organization has flexible policies including: travel policy for pregnant and lactating women, flexible work hour for non-clinic staff without reducing the total working hour. Women employees have access to on-job mentorship which aim to create gender-sensitive and inclusive work environment. As such, qualified women are encouraged to apply
About You:
We want individuals who support our mission of eliminating unsafe abortion by 2030 and who work with us to build an enabling environment to increase access to safe services everywhere. We expect all team members to share our vision and commitment to achieving our mission whilst promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of all clients and colleagues.
1. JOB SUMMARY
Under administrative direction of the Accounts Manager; the Senior Finance Officer records and posts financial data; participates in the preparation of financial statements and in implementing accounting systems; keeps up-to-date pertinent records of the books of accounts; participates in budget preparation; explores better ways of recording and data documentation.
2. DUTIES/TASKS
- ·Properly codes and records expenditure, income and any other related transactions in the books of accounts;
- Checks all clinic receipts, invoices and petty cash payments and post to SUN;
- Checks summary of bi-weekly transactions received from Area offices for having complete supporting documents and proper coding of account code, funder, activity and donor line codes and post to SUN;
- Maintains debtors and creditors accounts in SUN with proper allocation of balances;
- Prepares monthly bank reconciliation;
- Verifies payroll and other regular payment transactions with due consideration to deductions (advance, loan….) and record into SUN;
- Responds to Auditors queries and enquiries and prepares schedules as and when required;
- Records stock receipts, transfers and consumptions of Centres, Outreach, Social Franchising and Support Office;
- Offers guidelines and reporting formats to account professionals involved in the preparation and recording of financial statements;
- Performs quarterly reconciliation between the general ledger (SUN) and the subsidiary ledger (Peachtree);
- Assists Centre Coordinators, Centre Receptionists on financial matters; and Accounts Manager in the preparation of financial statements, revision and analysis of account balances;
- Performs clearance and investigation of long outstanding balances of stock variances etc;
- Assists in the preparation of semi-annual and annual financial statements;
- Prepares and submits monthly and other regular or on request financial reports, as per the reporting requirements of MSI and the project funders;
- Explores better systems of handling financial documents;
- Undertakes any other related duties that may be assigned by the Finance Manager;
1. PERSON SPECIFICATION
A. Qualification Requirement:
a. Education
- MA/BA in Accounting
b. Experience
- Four years as Finance Officer
B. Skills, Attitudes, and Attributes
- Committed to the protection of team members and clients, with a focus on vulnerable groups.
- Able to role-model inclusive and culturally sensitive attitudes and behaviors.
- Competence scale at the Proficiency level;
- Capacity to guide and show better ways;
- Persistence and capacity to look into details;
- Knowledge of donor policies and standards;
- Ability to use Vision XL, SUN Accounting, and Peachtree Software.
- Pro-choice
Number of Position: (1)
Employment Type: Contract for 6 months/Maternity Cover/
Duty Station: MSIE Support Office, Addis Ababa
Salary: As per MSI Ethiopia Reproductive Choices Salary Scale
As per MSI Ethiopia Reproductive Choices Salary Scale
