NO Accountant

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

• Ensures the correct classification of the documents accounted for on income and expenditures accounts related to projects;
• Gets involved in the chronological and systematic accounting for all the asset-related operations carried out within the projects;
• Is responsible for record-keeping and obtaining the accounting documents related to the projects;
• Participates in briefings about the reporting specific to the project he/she is part of;
• Gets involved in filling in the documentation required for the procurement activities, in accordance with the particulars of each project;
• Keeps permanent contact with the implementing team members and asks for information whenever he/she needs it for an accurate, complete and timely reporting on the projects' financials;
• Whenever necessary, submits information to project officers about the budget progress, the resources planned and spent, and amounts remained to be spent
• Contributes with recommendations to correction of the departures of the amount spent from the budget;
• Provides support and assistance in preparation of the documents requested by auditors;
• Ensures implementation of all recommendations received from auditors;
• Records the expense reports and regularly reviews them to make sure these close, relying on supporting documents;
• Correctly and timely enters all financial and accounting documents, including any statistical data, into D365;
• Assists the senior accountant in entering the financial and accounting documents for the National Office, in the D365 accounting software;
• Produces and updates the results of the general inventory of the assets of the National Association; participates in the inventory of the assets of the SOS Children’s Villages Lebanon sites, once a year;
• Is responsible for the cash register of the National Office (recording all the accounting documents and financial operations related to the activity performed, according to the legislation in effect);
• Is in charge of the management and record-keeping for the Association's store room;
• Deals with reconciliation of the balances in the trial balance against the statements of bank accounts;
• Is responsible for reconciliation of the stock-record file against the trial balance;
• Performs balance reconciliation for vendors and asks for the confirmation thereof with a view to issuing the required report at the time of annual inventorying;
• Gets involved in the analysis, definition, documentation and implementation of the procedures related to the internal financial reporting system;
• Participates in the drawing up of the various financial reports and analyses according to management requirements, when requested to do so;
• Issues D 365 reports whenever necessary, and submits such to the interested departments;
• Whenever necessary, provides support to the Finance & Controlling Manager in calculating the working capital required to finance the operation of the organization/project and to make the potential investments;
• Organizes and archives the documents on categories, in folders and files, on periods;
• Informs the line manager of any failures of the work system that are liable to impair his/her work;
• Is always informed of the legislative amendments occurred by taking part in trainings, courses and conferences in order to acquire the knowledge and skills he/she needs to attain the objectives, as regards:
  • the accounting regulations;
  • the tax regulations.
• Checks, monitors and reports on the missing/broken down/damaged assets he/she is responsible for;
• Abides by the rules of conduct, confidentiality, professional ethics, hygiene, occupational health & safety and fire safety in the work place;
• Is responsible, according to the work procedures, for maintaining in good conditions all the goods entrusted by the organization as working tools;
• Is responsible for compliance with the work procedures and processes, the internal regulations, the code of conduct, the rules and instructions issued, as well as the legislation in force applicable to the scope of the work he/she rendered.

Child Safeguarding (CS)

• Responsible within own area of work to prevent and protect children of all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination based on SOS Child Protection Policy principles ​​​​​​​
• Responsible to report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the national CS focal person or any other member of the national CS team and/or to respective line manager.