Accounting - Finance Jobs atAga Khan Foundation and Other Companies

JOB DETAILS:

The position
The position is responsible for facilitating the accurate and timely entry of accounting information, ensuring compliance with donors, and maintaining proper accounting records for TTI transactions
• Maintaining up-to-date accounting information using an approved accounting system.
• Prepare and track personnel and operations cost allocation.
• Preparing Donor Budgets for the organization including Annual budget and budget revisions.
• Preparing Monthly, Quarterly, and Annual Donor reports.
• Monitor expenses against budgets and provide appropriate feedback.
• Prepare quarterly or, cash requests to the AKF Tanzania and Donors together with cash acknowledgment notes to the donor.
• Provide full support for all internal and external audits, coordination and effective implementation of recommendations arising thereof.
• Ensure quarterly PDA reconciliation.
• Ensuring all procurement requests are adequately supported with detailed and accurate specifications with approved procurement request forms prior to any payment.
• Preparing monthly Mobile Money reconciliation.
• Ensuring safe custody of all accounting documentation, procurement files and records.
• Maintaining up-to-date Fixed Assets Register including labelling of all assets
• Ensuring effective control over inventory and office supplies of the teacher training college
• Following up monthly time sheets (attendance) for all staff.
• Support the organizational administrative duties
• Maintaining Integrity and Confidentiality of records and Information all the time.
• Generate quarterly invoices to TTI students and follow up on their payments
• Maintain books of accounts for the Madrasa Teacher Training Colleges and provide support to the principal on all administrative and financial matters related to the colleges

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, accounting, or a related field
• Minimum two years of working in the financial sector managing development partner budget
• Experience developing budgets in collaboration with technical programme staff and supporting the effective management of these.
• Excellent communication skills, able to make strong presentations and produce high-quality financial reports.
• Experience working across geographical organization boundaries, cultures, and diverse stakeholders.
• Sound Ms excel experience
• Impeccable integrity and work ethics.
• Diversity, Inclusion, and safeguarding: Ensure MECPZ’s pluralistic values are demonstrated internally, and externally, and all programming is respectful and inclusive of people from diverse backgrounds including, but not limited to, socio-economic status, religion, ethnicity, culture, gender, age, and disability.
• Committed to acting ethically and upholding safeguarding standards toward all staff, volunteers, and beneficiaries of the organization
• Ability to explain complex situations in simple terms (Communication)
• Personal commitment to working as a reliable, honest, & trustworthy member of a team.
• Ability to meet deadlines and able to organize work effectively whilst being proactive and showing initiative and tenacity (achieving results).
• Ability to show logic and think through options before deciding on a course of action (thinking and understanding).

JOB DETAILS:

The Admin & Finance Head is the person responsible to manage and follow up all the financial and administration aspect of the Organization, to support the Project Facilitators in the project budget management and to give a back up to the project team, Country and Deputy Country Representative in the overall financial and administration areas of the Organization. He/She identifies themselves with the philosophy of the Organization and whose primary concern is to ensure that CVM activity in Tanzania is sustainable, in line with Tanzanian Government regulation and the Projects are planned effectively with resource available.

Your commitment of a high degree and loyalty to CVM Organization is to be highly valued and personnel agendas, favoritism or personnel advantage are against the spirit for which you are selected to work in a senior post of responsibility. A high level of humility and service to the work is expected from you to allow you to enter well in to the philosophy of the projects promoted by CVM.

CVM is dedicated to building the dignity of people and in your work, this comes foremost especially in respect of women, sanitation, PLWHAs and other disadvantaged groups and is seen as an important responsibility.

MAJOR DUTIES

• Immediate Supervisor of Finance, Admin Office and support Staff (secretary, guards, driver, etc.).
• Supervision of all Local Agreement that CVM have in place in Tanzania, keeping the original and ensuring a dedicate folder in Bagamoyo Office
• Actively participate in the preparation of financial plans for each program together with the Project coordinators and Facilitators in the country office
• Preparation of financial reports, monthly, quarterly, annually and biannual for all program.
• Prepare budget and expenditure analysis monthly, quarterly, biannually and annually for all programs, make costs benefit analysis of activities and come up with suggestions and recommendations to Project Facilitators. Report monthly to CR in Bagamoyo and CVM Italy
• Prepare financial reports for donors and partners as per the need
• Prepare financial guidelines/manuals when needed.
• Follow up bank and cash transactions timely and update the recording.
• Ensure that timely transfer is in effect to project offices as per the approval of their request for the execution of activities. Request to CVM Italy a punctual cash transfer according to the activity monitoring on monthly base.
• Overall responsible of the Human Resource management. Update and keep records, staff files and perform follow up on the Human Resource of the Organization, notify timely the status of the contract renewal to CR and CVM Italy
• Ensure that the performance evaluation of staff is done two times in a year and carried out by the responsible persons.
• Ensure that all the procurement procedures are respected and are operational in project offices in accordance of procurement principles.
• Coordinate and follow up the transportation procedures for materials delivered to project areas.
• Ensure that stock and equipment management is effectively utilized
• Maintain inventory tracking system and perform periodic reviews
• Coordinate vehicles management, maintenance program, insurance, status monitoring, follow up vehicle formats are analyzed and undertaken well.
• Prepare financial document for auditing, ensure that accounts are audited yearly by assigned company and facilitate in the best way possible the audit process
• Ensure that proper communication channel is maintained between all offices and relevant people
• Ensures and is responsible that the Organization’s resources (staff, financial and material etc) are utilized with good care and according to the spirit of the Organization, building up people’s projects rather than CVM structures;
• Keep kindly and effective relation with local partners and authorities, ensure the Organization is represented in the whole value is inspired by.
• Be responsible for the collection of documents and submission of VISA application for expatriate staff
• Ensure compliance with TRA requirements and manage CVM profile on TRA platform
• Responsible of updating twice a year CVM Profile in NIS platform
• Ensure that CVM volunteers houses in Morogoro and Bagamoyo meet safety requirement, are adequately equipped and basic services are functioning.