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Project Accountant Job: SNV World Zambia

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Job Title: Project Accountant

Duty Station: Lusaka

Starting Date: 1st December, 2015

Reports to: Country Finance Manager

Execute daily financial and accounting duties. Coordinate and supervise staff, based on the relevant administrative, financial and HR guidelines and directions and in consultation with the Project Manager/s and Country Finance Officer, in order to enable the project/s to efficiently and effectively focus on the advisory accountabilities. To effectively support the Country Finance Manager in project finance administration and ensure continuity of operations in the absence of the supervisor.

Key Activities

Finance administration support

  • Record financial transactions in the accounting system
  • Prepare and check monthly, quarterly and annual financial accounts.
  • Forecasts and project depletion for the projects and submit to Finance Manager
  • Follow up on project related receipts and payments, reconcile bank balances and manage liquidity levels of the project based on guidelines of the Finance Manager, project and financial procedures.
  • Ensure control, monitoring and execution of all financial and related activities for the projects, like budgeting, administration and planning and control.
  • If needed  also take care of petty cash and supplier payment.

Management Reporting

  • Collect, review and analyze and interpret (trends in) financial and non- financial data.
  • Draft financial and administrative reports on projects and donor using SNV corporate and donor reporting formats.

General Support

  • Draft correspondence, signal bottlenecks in planning and suggest solutions based on requests of team and agreed general support routines

Databases

  • Ensure time writing database is updated in SAP and record relevant data in databases as requested for all given projects and assignments.

Supervision/management of staff

  • Coordinate activities and distribute work over the staff members, and recruits, coaches and appraises own staff

Qualification, Work Experience and Professional Skills

  • Grade Twelve (12) School certificate.
  • Degree in Finance or related field and/or ACCA or CIMA professional qualification.
  • 3-5 years post qualification work experience with reputable organizations (Donor funded NGOs preferred)
  • Registered member of the Zambia Institute of Chartered Accountants;
  • Must have a dynamic and proactive approach with excellent communications and interpersonal skills;
  • Computer literacy is a must

Working environment:

All office work with periodic field visits where need be.

How to apply

Applicants should submit an application letter addressed to the Country Operations Manager with full updated CV, pay rate history for the last three years, three professional references including their email addresses and day contact phone numbers.

Applications should be submitted to [email protected] and copy to [email protected] no later than Friday 30th October, 2015. Please do not attach any academic and professional certificates.

Closing date: Friday, October 30, 2015