Projects Accountant
Location: Arusha
Job brief
The job involves performing accounts and general administrative duties, working in close collaboration with department heads. Ensuring proper financial management, assisting in the preparation of annual budgets and strict adherence to finance and administrative policies. Ensuring proper asset management, including procurement, labeling and updating the asset registers.
Job Opportunities details
Responsibilities
- Manage payments and ensure that they are paid on time, authorised by appropriate staff, and the financial process and procedures are followed.
- Correctly allocate expenditure and process transactions to the correct general ledger (GL) accounts in cashbook
- Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations including bank reconciliations for review by your Manager)
- Produce accurate end of month, end of year accounts and other financial reports on time for approval by your Manager
- Maintain the fixed asset register, perform periodic physical counts of the assets, and review the state of the asset with your Manager
- Ensure thes assets and financial information are adequately safeguarded and confidentiality is maintained.
- Provide analysis and recommendations to improve efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of the projects
Acquittance
- Quick and efficient in responding to emails and general communication
- Share knowledge and work as part of a team.
- Direct and supervise Accounts Assistant and any further staff added to the finance team in Tanzania
- Seeking someone with the passion and desire to be a part of a not for profit organisation working to benefit children and vulnerable communities within Tanzania.
- Operationalise Financial Manual and Policies
- Anything that may be required to support the financial operations and social businesses
- Better performance will increase opportunities for career growth in organizational hierarchy.
Qualifications
- The prospective candidate will possess a first degree in Commerce or Business Administration with at least 1 year experience OR relevant professional qualification (CPA II) .
- The position holder must be computer literate,
To Apply:
Please send a cover letter and detailed CV including daytime phone number, email address, and 3 professional references.
Your CV should include your scores or grades and other measures of academic achievement, and details about any relevant work experience.
Applications to be sent by email to [email protected]
Please ensure that the subject line reads: “POSITION APPLIED FOR“.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted on a rolling basis.
Deadline for applications is 26th January 2019.
