Finance Assistant

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Petty Cash

• The Finance Assistant will be responsible for making the cash payments to suppliers of goods and services in the surrounding of Wadi Nahle. These payments should be made in the office, however under certain circumstances the Cashier may need to travel to the suppliers or beneficiaries to make payments.

• The Finance Assistant will be responsible for managing the petit cash; keeping updated hard and soft copies of the petit cash ledger and carrying out a daily consolidation of petit cash to be approved by the project coordinator. A Monthly consolidation should be prepared by the finance assistant at the end of each month.

• The Finance Assistant will be responsible of preparing the financial report on monthly basis.

Financial Achieving

• The Financial Assistant (Cashier) will be responsible in the achieving of financial documents. This will include Scanning of financial documents and ensuring all files are up to date and complete.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS

Accountability:

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
• Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Future orientated, thinks strategically.

Collaboration:

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach

Integrity:

• honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
• displays consistent excellent judgement

Additional job responsibilities

The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.