Finance Assistant

Under the supervision of the Senior Finance Officer, the Finance and Accounts Assistant will support the Accounts team in maintaining accurate financial records, strengthening financial controls and improving the documentation of finance processes. Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing and maintaining reconciliations for bank, general ledger, payroll-related, donor related funds, and other assigned accounts.
• Reviewing accounting transactions and supporting documentation to ensure accuracy, completeness, compliance and timely clearance of outstanding items.
• Extracting, compiling and checking financial data from SAP, spreadsheets and other sources for management, budget, donor, trust fund and year-end reporting.
• Supporting the preparation of financial schedules, working papers, tables and narrative inputs for reports and audits.
• Assisting with the review, input and validation of accounting data, including follow-up on rejected, incomplete or incorrectly coded transactions.
• Documenting finance procedures, work instructions, checklists and process maps to improve consistency, transparency and audit readiness.
• Maintaining organized records, templates, trackers and supporting evidence for management review, audit and internal control purposes.
• Supporting audit queries, follow-up actions, knowledge sharing and other related finance tasks as assigned.
• Any other duties as assigned by the line manager.