About Finance and Administration
\nPurpose of the Job:
\nThe Senior Project Accountant (SPA) is responsible for detailed review, posting, summarizing and reporting of all financial transactions of the EU project. The SPA prepares journal entries, review all TOR & requests, monitor budgets, check fixed assets register & reconcile with books, and submits period reports. The SPA also prepares invoices to bill the donor for project related expenses.
\nMain Duties and Responsibilities:<\/p>\n
Reviews all assigned reports submitted from branch offices and funded by donors, considering accuracy of information, supporting documentation and compliance of expenses with the budget and donor regulations.
\nFollows up with field office staff on errors or unallowable expenses.
\nPrepares journal entries for expenses into commission\u2019s General Ledger for review by the Finance and budget coordinator and approval by Finance & Admin Director.
\nResearch and documents donor disputes in a timely manner and provides recommendations for action or adjustments to the coordinato
\nReconcile the monthly bank statement
\nReconcile the budget consumption monthly and share the status update with the project coordinator and project team
\nReconcile the expenditure, fund balance and cash at bank
\nMake sure that all expenditures are recorded as per the budget classification of the project
\nReconcile quarterly all fixed assets register with the financial report
\nRecord VAT payments separately and request for refund from the MoF as deemed necessary
\nNotifies the Controller of significant problems such as significant variance with the approved budget, cost share issues, or unallowable costs.
\nPrepares billings to donors based on financial reports submitted from city offices in a timely manner and in accordance with contractual agreements.
\nFollows up with donors on questions or problems regarding invoices; and Provides guidance to the project accountant as needed.
\nAssists with project related inquires for the annual audit and works with the Finance & Budget Coordinator and Finance & Admin Director to prepare schedules and respond to questions.<\/p>\n
About You<\/p>\n
Qualifications and Experience:<\/p>\n
BA Degree in Accounting and Finance
\n6 years of relevant experience
\nExperience and knowledge of IFMIS, IFRIS is required
\nExperience working with various donors is a plus
\nExperience working with EU projects is Advantageous
\nComputer literate
\nKnowledge of Amharic is required. Knowledge of other local languages is advantageous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"https:\/\/hris.ehrc.org\/Vacancies\/VacancyDetails\/10f950a5-dcdd-4b66-9d15-0f9dbfd5e514","_company_name":"Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC)","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[11],"job-categories":[],"job-types":[12],"class_list":{"0":"post-2246","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"job_listing_region-ethiopia","7":"job-type-full-time"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/ethiopia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}