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Girl Hub Vacancy in Nigeria for a Senior Finance Coordinator
Girl Hub is a strategic collaboration between the Department for
International Development (DFID) and the NIKE Foundation, designed to
bring together the expertise of both organisation to transform the lives
of adolescent girls. Our aim is to shift the social norms that hold
girls back, and drive better investment that directly benefit girls.
Girl Hub's mission is to empower the 250 million adolescent girls living
in poverty to reach their full potential. Girls are a proven force for
change and the catalyst to end global poverty - it's called the Girl
Effect.
When you improve a girl's life through education, health, safety and
economic opportunity, these changes have a positive ripple effect on
their families, communities and nations. Our work aims to shift the
social norms that hold girls back, and drive better investments that
directly benefit girls. Everything we do is based on what girls tell us
they need and what will work for them.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Senior Finance Coordinator
Location: Nigeria
Department: Finance
Job Type: Full Time
Job Purpose
- The Senior Finance Coordinator will be responsible for financial
management of the Girl Hub Nigeria (GHN) Office. This includes ensuring
good accounting practice and completing all financial responsibilities
such as processing payments, managing cashflow, financial reporting and
budgeting, and tax compliance.
Main Responsibilities
- The Senior Finance Coordinator will be responsible for leading
on the full range of financial and cash management processes for GHN.
They will provide the full range of finance support required to
facilitate the efficient delivery of GHN's overall objectives. This
includes:
- Cash management: Monitor funds and cash flow to keep an optimum
cash and bank balance and mitigate any deficit due to exchange rate
fluctuations
- Management of the Petty Cash. Inputing and processing petty cash requests.
- Financial Reporting and Budgeting: Support the respective budget
managers during the budgeting/reforecasting process, prepare monthly
accounts and expenditure reports
- Financial Accounting: Processing invoices and payments on the
accounting system, verifying that the invoices raised are in line with
the contractual agreements and ensuring relevant tax deductions and
remittance to Nigeria Revenue authority are complete
Financial Accounting:
- Daily accounting of transactions in country and those made in headquarters
- Liaise with the Girl Hub headquarters in London for payment purposes.
- Coordinate with colleagues from both the technical and finance
perspective to ensure the smooth operation of GHN funded initiatives.
- Lead on the Withholding Tax (WHT) process and ensure GHN is conforming to Nigerian Law regarding Tax.
- Perform month end activities by the 7th working day following
the end of the month (Transaction entries, Journal entries,
reconciliation etc)
- Ensure adherence to local statutory and tax requirements.
- Provide documentation and explanations to external and internal auditors as required
Cash Management:
- Petty cash management (Inc. reconciliation and Journal entry before sending to GH London).
- Monitor funds and cash flow to keep an optimum cash and bank balance and mitigate any deficit due to bank currency fluctuations
- Process payments from the local bank account.
- Maintain financial documents for completeness, accuracy and compliance with local and GH accounting rules.
Financial Reporting and Budget Management:
- Develop and prepare monthly management accounts and expenditures
reports and share with GHN team to identify variances against planned
budget and take corrective action.
- Closely monitor the key performance indicators by developing and
implementing adequate strategies to ensure GHN performance (reduction
in payment timelines, month end activities, accurate forecast, monthly
management report, ad-hoc feedback to Girl Hub headquarters in London,
queries and policy compliance).
- Monitor exchange rates on a monthly basis.
- Supports the respective budget managers during the yearly
budgeting and quarterly reforecast processes with the preparation of
templates and consolidation of returns
- Work closely with the Technical Programme Teams to present the monthly accounts and support them on the budget / reforecast.
Other Duties
- Support on additional duties assigned by country leadership as and when required.
- Conduct quarterly asset verification of all equipment, submit to London.
- Participate in all strategic planning, budget reforecasting,
training, team building and related activities of the GHL team and
contribute to the overall development of the organisation.
- Manage and maintain the asset/inventory register ensuring all
new assets/inventory acquisitions over GBP 650 are recorded in the asset
register, provided with an asset/inventory code and are physically
labelled with the asset code.
Qualifications and experience
- Degree in Accounting or its equivalent
- Experience in working with financial accounting procedures and
reviewing financial reports, creating and monitoring budgets and working
with compliance regulations.
- Experience in using excels spreadsheets and word processing packages and other account reporting tools.
- 3-5 years working experience in similar post for a local NGO or an INGO.
- Knowledge of financial standards required by donors, local financial standards and legal framework
Competencies
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Task completer
- Tenacious and possessing a strong work ethic
- Able to work in a multi-cultural environment
- The right to work in Nigeria is a requirement for all applications.
- Able to work autonomously
- Strong excel skills
- Good communicator
Remuneration and Benefits
Competitive
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Application Deadline 30th June, 2015
.