Finance + Administration Assistant
2025-12-17T06:56:36+00:00
Compassionate Carbon Tanzania Ltd
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FULL_TIME
Arusha
Arusha
00000
Tanzania
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources
Accounting & Finance, Admin & Office, Business Operations, Social Services & Nonprofit
2025-12-31T17:00:00+00:00
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Company Information
Compassionate Carbon Tanzania Ltd is a mission-driven organization launched by Compassionate Carbon LLC and Eden: People+Planet (Eden). Specializing in developing and implementing landscape-scale forest carbon projects through Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), we collaborate with local communities to restore landscapes, create jobs, protect ecosystems, and mitigate climate change.
Our projects integrate nature-based solutions to help meet global emissions targets while ensuring community ownership and long-term sustainability. The Rubeho Mountains Carbon Project, a significant initiative in Tanzania, focuses on native forest restoration and community-based conservation efforts.
Position Summary
The Finance and Administration Assistant plays a critical role in providing foundational support to the organisation’s daily financial operations. This position is responsible for ensuring that all routine financial tasks—including transaction recording, payment processing, and the management of financial documentation—are completed with accuracy and efficiency. Additionally, the Finance and Administration Assistant assist with daily human resources and administrative requirements within the office, facilitating effective support for operational activities.
Essential Responsibilities
- Oversee field accounts payable and general ledger entries, ensuring accurate bookkeeping with supporting documentation.
- Transaction Processing: Handle daily financial transactions (AP and AR), including preparing and processing payment vouchers, invoices, and expense reimbursements. Ensure that each transaction is properly authorized and coded to the correct budget/account.
- Record Maintenance: Maintain accurate financial records and ledgers. Regularly update the accounting system with transaction details. Take responsibility for data entry of journals (like entering invoices, payroll data, petty cash expenses) and ensure supporting documentation is filed systematically (electronically and hard copies).
- Banking + Cash Handling: Assist in managing office cash and bank matters, including preparing bank deposits, withdrawing cash for petty cash funds, and recording all cash transactions. Maintain petty cash float, disbursing small payments as appropriate. Prepare monthly bank reconciliation.
- Administrative Support: Provide general administrative support, primarily for Finance functions, but also for human resources and general office administrative needs. Maintain updated contact lists.
- Logistical Support: Coordinate logistics for meetings, workshops, and project events; assist with travel arrangements for project staff.
- Data Gathering + Basic Analysis: Compile basic financial data as requested for reports or budgets; ensure data needed for analysis is accurate and readily available. Assist in preparing simple summaries or tables.
- Expense Monitoring: Keep track of recurring expenses and deadlines; manage a schedule of regular payments to ensure timely processing. Ensure staff advances are tracked and cleared per policy.
- Support month-end/year-end processes: Help during the monthly and annual close processes, ensuring consistency and completion of assigned tasks to contribute to a smoother month-end process.
- Internal Controls + Regulatory Compliance: Ensure that all internal controls and other financial and procurement procedures of Eden are implemented and applied in full. Ensure that Tanzania regulations regarding finances are complied with.
- Financial Monitoring + Reporting: Assist with budget monitoring by tracking expenditures against approved budgets; help coordinate financial audits and provide necessary documentation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education + Work Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
- 1-3 years in an accounting or finance support role, preferred.
- Familiarity with accounting software and MS Excel required; experience with double-entry bookkeeping fundamentals and able to learn new accounting systems is required.
- Experience in the nonprofit sector, particularly with grants and donor-funded projects, is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with fund accounting.
- Professional certification or related certificate studies (CPA, CPA(T), ACPA, ACCA, or similar), preferred.
Skills + Abilities
- Models the Eden Ethos in all professional interactions, demonstrating a commitment to the organization’s values, vision, and conduct standards.
- Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail to ensure accuracy in data entry and recordkeeping; must quickly catch and correct errors in figures, match invoices to payments, and ensure every transaction is documented.
- Numeracy + Basic Accounting Skills: Strong numerical ability and comfort with basic accounting tasks; able to reconcile simple accounts, calculate totals and percentages, and understand the flow of money in accounts.
- Organization + Time Management: Good organizational and prioritization skills to manage multiple tasks efficiently. Required to regularly juggle routine duties with ad-hoc requests. Ability to maintain accurate records, support administrative processes, maintain a schedule, and to-do list to ensure deadlines are met.
- Confidentiality, Integrity, + Ethical Practice: Trustworthiness in handling confidential information, such as payroll details, vendor contracts, or cash on hand. Must exercise discretion and uphold ethics; committed to ethical financial practices.
- Communication: Clear and polite verbal and written communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders.
- Learning Attitude: Willingness and ability to Learn + Grow; eager to gain new skills and improve processes
- Customer Service Orientation: A helpful and courteous attitude is essential when providing finance and administrative support.
- Basic Analytical Thought: Should have the ability to notice errors or unusual details, contributing to error prevention and correction.
- Understanding of applicable employment laws and regulations in Tanzania, as well as Human Resources best practices and their application.
- Organizational and data management skills for maintaining accurate records and effectively supporting administrative processes.
Work Conditions
Work Environment: primarily an office-based environment with a typical moderate noise level (comparable to normal office background sounds). Occasional travel to field sites is also required. Frequent teamwork and stakeholder engagement requires regular meetings both in-person
* Oversee field accounts payable and general ledger entries, ensuring accurate bookkeeping with supporting documentation. * Transaction Processing: Handle daily financial transactions (AP and AR), including preparing and processing payment vouchers, invoices, and expense reimbursements. Ensure that each transaction is properly authorized and coded to the correct budget/account. * Record Maintenance: Maintain accurate financial records and ledgers. Regularly update the accounting system with transaction details. Take responsibility for data entry of journals (like entering invoices, payroll data, petty cash expenses) and ensure supporting documentation is filed systematically (electronically and hard copies). * Banking + Cash Handling: Assist in managing office cash and bank matters, including preparing bank deposits, withdrawing cash for petty cash funds, and recording all cash transactions. Maintain petty cash float, disbursing small payments as appropriate. Prepare monthly bank reconciliation. * Administrative Support: Provide general administrative support, primarily for Finance functions, but also for human resources and general office administrative needs. Maintain updated contact lists. * Logistical Support: Coordinate logistics for meetings, workshops, and project events; assist with travel arrangements for project staff. * Data Gathering + Basic Analysis: Compile basic financial data as requested for reports or budgets; ensure data needed for analysis is accurate and readily available. Assist in preparing simple summaries or tables. * Expense Monitoring: Keep track of recurring expenses and deadlines; manage a schedule of regular payments to ensure timely processing. Ensure staff advances are tracked and cleared per policy. * Support month-end/year-end processes: Help during the monthly and annual close processes, ensuring consistency and completion of assigned tasks to contribute to a smoother month-end process. * Internal Controls + Regulatory Compliance: Ensure that all internal controls and other financial and procurement procedures of Eden are implemented and applied in full. Ensure that Tanzania regulations regarding finances are complied with. * Financial Monitoring + Reporting: Assist with budget monitoring by tracking expenditures against approved budgets; help coordinate financial audits and provide necessary documentation. * Other duties as assigned.
* Models the Eden Ethos in all professional interactions, demonstrating a commitment to the organization’s values, vision, and conduct standards. * Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail to ensure accuracy in data entry and recordkeeping; must quickly catch and correct errors in figures, match invoices to payments, and ensure every transaction is documented. * Numeracy + Basic Accounting Skills: Strong numerical ability and comfort with basic accounting tasks; able to reconcile simple accounts, calculate totals and percentages, and understand the flow of money in accounts. * Organization + Time Management: Good organizational and prioritization skills to manage multiple tasks efficiently. Required to regularly juggle routine duties with ad-hoc requests. Ability to maintain accurate records, support administrative processes, maintain a schedule, and to-do list to ensure deadlines are met. * Confidentiality, Integrity, + Ethical Practice: Trustworthiness in handling confidential information, such as payroll details, vendor contracts, or cash on hand. Must exercise discretion and uphold ethics; committed to ethical financial practices. * Communication: Clear and polite verbal and written communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders. * Learning Attitude: Willingness and ability to Learn + Grow; eager to gain new skills and improve processes * Customer Service Orientation: A helpful and courteous attitude is essential when providing finance and administrative support. * Basic Analytical Thought: Should have the ability to notice errors or unusual details, contributing to error prevention and correction. * Understanding of applicable employment laws and regulations in Tanzania, as well as Human Resources best practices and their application. * Organizational and data management skills for maintaining accurate records and effectively supporting administrative processes.
* Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field. * 1-3 years in an accounting or finance support role, preferred. * Familiarity with accounting software and MS Excel required; experience with double-entry bookkeeping fundamentals and able to learn new accounting systems is required. * Experience in the nonprofit sector, particularly with grants and donor-funded projects, is highly desirable. * Familiarity with fund accounting. * Professional certification or related certificate studies (CPA, CPA(T), ACPA, ACCA, or similar), preferred.
JOB-69425424c1fb8
Vacancy title:
Finance + Administration Assistant
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources, Category: Accounting & Finance, Admin & Office, Business Operations, Social Services & Nonprofit]
Jobs at:
Compassionate Carbon Tanzania Ltd
Deadline of this Job:
Wednesday, December 31 2025
Duty Station:
Arusha | Arusha
Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, December 17 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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Company Information
Compassionate Carbon Tanzania Ltd is a mission-driven organization launched by Compassionate Carbon LLC and Eden: People+Planet (Eden). Specializing in developing and implementing landscape-scale forest carbon projects through Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), we collaborate with local communities to restore landscapes, create jobs, protect ecosystems, and mitigate climate change.
Our projects integrate nature-based solutions to help meet global emissions targets while ensuring community ownership and long-term sustainability. The Rubeho Mountains Carbon Project, a significant initiative in Tanzania, focuses on native forest restoration and community-based conservation efforts.
Position Summary
The Finance and Administration Assistant plays a critical role in providing foundational support to the organisation’s daily financial operations. This position is responsible for ensuring that all routine financial tasks—including transaction recording, payment processing, and the management of financial documentation—are completed with accuracy and efficiency. Additionally, the Finance and Administration Assistant assist with daily human resources and administrative requirements within the office, facilitating effective support for operational activities.
Essential Responsibilities
- Oversee field accounts payable and general ledger entries, ensuring accurate bookkeeping with supporting documentation.
- Transaction Processing: Handle daily financial transactions (AP and AR), including preparing and processing payment vouchers, invoices, and expense reimbursements. Ensure that each transaction is properly authorized and coded to the correct budget/account.
- Record Maintenance: Maintain accurate financial records and ledgers. Regularly update the accounting system with transaction details. Take responsibility for data entry of journals (like entering invoices, payroll data, petty cash expenses) and ensure supporting documentation is filed systematically (electronically and hard copies).
- Banking + Cash Handling: Assist in managing office cash and bank matters, including preparing bank deposits, withdrawing cash for petty cash funds, and recording all cash transactions. Maintain petty cash float, disbursing small payments as appropriate. Prepare monthly bank reconciliation.
- Administrative Support: Provide general administrative support, primarily for Finance functions, but also for human resources and general office administrative needs. Maintain updated contact lists.
- Logistical Support: Coordinate logistics for meetings, workshops, and project events; assist with travel arrangements for project staff.
- Data Gathering + Basic Analysis: Compile basic financial data as requested for reports or budgets; ensure data needed for analysis is accurate and readily available. Assist in preparing simple summaries or tables.
- Expense Monitoring: Keep track of recurring expenses and deadlines; manage a schedule of regular payments to ensure timely processing. Ensure staff advances are tracked and cleared per policy.
- Support month-end/year-end processes: Help during the monthly and annual close processes, ensuring consistency and completion of assigned tasks to contribute to a smoother month-end process.
- Internal Controls + Regulatory Compliance: Ensure that all internal controls and other financial and procurement procedures of Eden are implemented and applied in full. Ensure that Tanzania regulations regarding finances are complied with.
- Financial Monitoring + Reporting: Assist with budget monitoring by tracking expenditures against approved budgets; help coordinate financial audits and provide necessary documentation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education + Work Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
- 1-3 years in an accounting or finance support role, preferred.
- Familiarity with accounting software and MS Excel required; experience with double-entry bookkeeping fundamentals and able to learn new accounting systems is required.
- Experience in the nonprofit sector, particularly with grants and donor-funded projects, is highly desirable.
- Familiarity with fund accounting.
- Professional certification or related certificate studies (CPA, CPA(T), ACPA, ACCA, or similar), preferred.
Skills + Abilities
- Models the Eden Ethos in all professional interactions, demonstrating a commitment to the organization’s values, vision, and conduct standards.
- Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail to ensure accuracy in data entry and recordkeeping; must quickly catch and correct errors in figures, match invoices to payments, and ensure every transaction is documented.
- Numeracy + Basic Accounting Skills: Strong numerical ability and comfort with basic accounting tasks; able to reconcile simple accounts, calculate totals and percentages, and understand the flow of money in accounts.
- Organization + Time Management: Good organizational and prioritization skills to manage multiple tasks efficiently. Required to regularly juggle routine duties with ad-hoc requests. Ability to maintain accurate records, support administrative processes, maintain a schedule, and to-do list to ensure deadlines are met.
- Confidentiality, Integrity, + Ethical Practice: Trustworthiness in handling confidential information, such as payroll details, vendor contracts, or cash on hand. Must exercise discretion and uphold ethics; committed to ethical financial practices.
- Communication: Clear and polite verbal and written communication skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders.
- Learning Attitude: Willingness and ability to Learn + Grow; eager to gain new skills and improve processes
- Customer Service Orientation: A helpful and courteous attitude is essential when providing finance and administrative support.
- Basic Analytical Thought: Should have the ability to notice errors or unusual details, contributing to error prevention and correction.
- Understanding of applicable employment laws and regulations in Tanzania, as well as Human Resources best practices and their application.
- Organizational and data management skills for maintaining accurate records and effectively supporting administrative processes.
Work Conditions
Work Environment: primarily an office-based environment with a typical moderate noise level (comparable to normal office background sounds). Occasional travel to field sites is also required. Frequent teamwork and stakeholder engagement requires regular meetings both in-person
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