Finance Officer Ukraine Dnipro

Ukraine

Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the Finance officer position is day-to-day implementation of the support functions responsibilities.

Generic responsibilities:

Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
Implement delegated financial function portfolio according to plan of action as well as to Financial Handbook and other NRC policies including SOP’s
Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
Maintain the filling system for all financial and accounting documents and ensure filing of all financial documents according to NRC standards
Prepare monthly financial reports and send all relevant documents
Support project staff in financial and administrative matters
Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
Contribute to specific protection risks and needs analyses
Contribute to designing of protection response to identified risks and needs.

Specific responsibilities:

Verify that vouchers and supporting documents meet NRC standards before payment. Be responsible for payments to suppliers, contract workers and mobilisers.
Be responsible for disbursement of perdiem to NRC Ukraine employees according to Ukrainian legislation and NRC policies.
Ensure that all costs are timely booked into Agresso on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Be responsible to write transactions numbers on the vouchers and label financial documents
Prepare bank accounts reconciliations.
Collaborate with the financial institutions to ensure that queries related to payments are timely resolved (return payments, under/over payments, suppliers/contractors’ incorrect account details etc)
Ensure implementing of the routine for securing supporting documentation in a digital format. Follow up to ensure processing of reconciliation of deliverables (Financial part).
Assist the Finance Coordinator (FC) and the Finance Manager (FM) in internal and external audits and preparing donor reports
Verification of purchase requisitions (PR) and purchase orders (PO)
Any other tasks that will be assigned by the FC.

Competencies

1. Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies:

Experience from working as a Finance Officer/Accountant in a humanitarian/recovery context
Professional knowledge of auditing/accounting
Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
Knowledge of English, both written and verbal

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

Knowledge of the context in the areas NRC operates
Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian both written and verbal
Knowledge of legal tax base for the representation office
Experience from working with local financial institutions and tax authorities
Experience with start-up of humanitarian/recovery or related programmes is an asset
Good computer skills in MS Office