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International Rescue Committee Job in Nigeria for an Assistant Finance Controller
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of the world's leading
crisis response agencies, providing life-saving assistance and
supporting recovery and reconstruction for people affected by war and
natural disasters.
Active in public health, education, livelihoods, women's empowerment,
youth development, and protection and promotion of rights, IRC assists
people from harm to home.IRC entered Nigeria in October 2012 in response
to a widespread flood disaster.
Job Title: Assistant Finance Controller
Location: Maiduguri
Sector: Finance
Employee Type: TTA
Job Overview/Summary
The TTA Assistant Finance Controller is mainly expected to build IRC
Nigeria finance staff capacity on month end closing, cash forecasting,
sub grant management, donor financial reporting, internal financial
reporting (BVA & BS reconciliation) and payroll accounting through
on the job training.
Specific responsibilities within each functional area are as follows:
SUN Processing:
- Control over and/or entry of changes to the Chart of Accounts, Analysis Codes and Exchange Rates
- Performing or supervising the posting of entries ensuring proper
controls are enforced and appropriate systems in place to maintain all
required supporting documentation.
- Production of required monthly and ad-hoc reports.
- Developing expertise to control the system, develop new reports and be able to train staff in processing of data.
- Ensuring budgets are loaded on a timely basis
- Ensuring a backup and retention procedure is in place and followed for all SUN master files
- Train IRC Nigeria finance staff on sun processing and month end closing
Field Office Training & Support:
- Providing training and support for the country office program
and operational staff on the IRC Finance policies; accounting procedures
and requirements, assists the staff in finance related issues and
activities.
- Coach, train, provide orientation for and mentor staff with the
aim of strengthening their technical capacity, exchanging knowledge
within the team
- Supervise and mentor direct-report staff, including
communicating clear expectations, setting performance objectives,
providing regular and timely performance feedback, and providing
documented performance reviews.
- Review of financial data submitted by the field to identify
weaknesses or problems being encountered by field finance staff and
recommend corrective action.
- Monitor the follow-up of the staff, vendor advances and other
balance sheet items before month end. Train finance staff on follow up
of BS reconciliation
Cash Forecasting:
- Ensure that the country program cash forecasts and CTR reports
are accurate by working with Finance Manager, field and program
coordinators to help them develop more accurate cash forecasts of their
program needs.
- Monitoring cash usage and requirements and advises the Finance Controller of possible unusual activity or requirements
- Train IRC Nigeria finance staff on cash forecast and CTR reports
Sub-grant:
- Review the adequacy and effectiveness of IRC Nigeria's
partners/sub-grantees systems and internal policies, rules and
guidelines, ensuring that these controls offer adequate protection
against error, fraud and loss of all kinds.
- Produce regular partner compliance reports with findings and
issues identified during the audit, give appropriate recommendation and
actions, providing advice and suggestions on improvements to systems and
procedures where appropriate.
- Provide in-person and remote capacity building and/or training to partners in financial management, reporting and compliance.
- Build IRC Nigeria Finance staff capacity building on review of sub-grants financial report and uploading to financial system
- Review and monitor sub-grantees financial reporting and
compliance. Provide additional assistance to partners as necessary to
maintain high standard of compliance.
- Review partner procurement and financial transactions to ensure
adequate supporting documentation, accuracy of amounts and control over
payments.
Donor Financial Reports:
- Preparation of draft donor reports for review by the Finance Controller
- Analysis of actual to budget results to identify problems in accounting or compliance
- Identification of procedural or training issues to be addressed to improve the quality of report data.
- Preparation of the creation of detail level budgets in IRC SUN
format to ensure required donor reports can be produced form the
accounting system
- Provide on the job training to finance managers on preparation of donor reporting
National Payroll:
- Supervising the review of the national payroll report ensuring accuracy and standard financial controls are maintained
- Responsible for the preparation and training of finance staff of
the monthly international and national staff payroll accounting entries
including salary allocations/mapping.
- Liaison with the revenue department to ensure compliance with income tax and other related tax regulations
Other:
- Any other duties assigned by the Finance Controller
Working Environment:
- The position will be based in Maiduguri, Nigeria with frequent travel within IRC Nigeria field offices (Yola, Mubi and Abuja)
Working relationship:
- Finance Controller, Finance Managers, Finance Officers, DDP,
DDO, Field Coordinators, Program Coordinators, Program managers, Senior
HR & Admin Manager
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Advance Diploma in Accounting
from recognized College/Institutions with a minimum of three (5) years
of accounting experience in IRC of which 2 years must have worked as
finance manager in IRCand management skills to others
- Personal qualities: Team player, flexible, network-builder, able to handle pressure well
- Fluency in English required
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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