Duties and responsibilities

-Summary of key functions:

• Execution of day-to-day accounting operations of the EASD-R project and provide accounting oversight to the EASD-R project partners
• Ensure efficient procurement and logistical services for EASD-R project
• a)Execution of day-to-day operations:
• Ensure full compliance of operations with EUROPEAN UNION and RCSP rules, regulations and policies, and plan operations on a quarterly basis
• Establishment of collaborative arrangements with partners in the project,
• Make Use of internal standard operating procedures in Finance, Human Resources Management, Procurement, Logistical and ICT services.
• Constant monitoring and analysis of the operating environment, timely readjustment of the operations, advice on legal considerations and risk assessment.

b) CSO’s financial resources management

• Ensure proper planning, expenditure tracking and audit of financial resources, including extra-budgetary income in accordance with European Union and RCSP rules and regulations.
• Proper management of the contributions, business process and accounting for contributions to ensure that EADS-R financial operations are properly identified, consistently and uniformly classified, recorded on a timely basis and received with sufficient supporting documentation.
• Plan, execute and follow-up on bank reconciliations.
• Organization of cost-recovery mechanisms for all EADS-R projects/activities.
• Organization and oversight of EADS-R PROJECT cash management processes, including liquidity management, recommendation of provision level, risk assessment, bank relationship management; timely accounting and reconciliation of all transactions, security for cash assets on site.
• Monitoring of financial exception reports for unusual activities, transactions and investigation of anomalies or unusual transactions.
• Follow-up on transactions and payment approval on internet banking system.
• Ensure that all financial transactions are identified, recorded and verified in compliance with EU/RCSP agreement as outlined in their MoU.
• Prepare all financial reports and ensure compliance with EU/RCSP’s MoU guidelines

c) Efficient procurement and logistical services: The RCSP internal procurement committee will be expanded and cover EASD-R project procurement activities as well. It will be entrusted with the responsibility to oversee procurement processes and logistical services in accordance with RCSP rules and regulations.

Competencies

• Bachelor degree in accounting
• Minimum three year working experience in accounting department
• Knowledge of accounting software
• Making recommendations regarding operation of systems within RCSP.
• Identifies and recommends remedial measures to address problems in systems design or implementation.
• Demonstrating understanding how to manage grants awarded to CSO
• Soliciting feedback on service provision and quality
• Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking
• Communication skills:

Application submission

Qualified candidates are invited to submit their application through the following email: info@rcsprwanda.org not later than 28th of February 2014 at 4pm.

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