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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