Accountant

Employer name Good Shepherd Youth Club (GSYC)

Duty Station  Jericho

Position title Accountant

Position Type  Full time contract

Duration One year with possibility of extension

Expected starting date  1, April 2024

Good Shepherd Youth Club:

Good Shepherd Youth Club (GSYC) is a non-profit youth entity founded by a group of students and graduates from Terra Santa School, in cooperation with Custodia Terra Santa and the parish’s dignitaries in Jericho City during the year 1984, as to create and provide a safe space for the children, youth and families of the school and Jericho Governorate. In 2017 the club has succeeded in establishing and licensing the Good Shepherd Youth Cultural Center (GSYCC), to provide opportunities for children, youth and Jericho community through providing several educational, cultural and developmental activities and programs.

GSYC provides healthy and friendly environment allowing children and youth to realize their full capabilities and promote and advance their full participation in social, sport, cultural and educational activities as part of our social responsibility in providing activities to lead the community and youth empowerment.

About PYE:  

Mercy Corps and International Youth Foundation (IYF) are implementing the 5-year USAID-funded Positive Youth Engagement (PYE) activity, in partnership with the Good Shepherd Youth Club as the regional partner for Jericho Governorate. Tailored to the Palestinian context, this holistic five-year program will support 50,000 adolescents with a menu of activities, opportunities for engagement and leadership, and resources to pursue their goals with hope for the future along peaceful and productive pathways. PYE will draw on a suite of proven and contextually tailored tools, over a decade of research-informed programming on the 10–19-year-old age group, the trust and credibility that comes from a combined 35+ years of continuous operational experience across the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem (WBG), and local partners with strong networks and youth programming experience throughout WBG. The program will reintegrate older adolescents (15–19-year-olds) into social and economic life by empowering them to successfully pursue their goals and prevent younger adolescents (10–14-year-olds) from becoming isolated and disconnected from social and economic opportunities.

 PYE is designed to deliver a three-pronged, mutually reinforcing program segmented by gender and age across the targeted communities in the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.

1. Core programming that supports, protects, prepares, and engages adolescents in safe spaces located within a strong network of community- based organizations (CBOs),
2. Tailored packages of activities, resources, and referrals that will set youth on individually selected Pathways building on the core curriculum to increase opportunities for youth to effectively contribute to social and economic development, and
3. Opportunities for sustained community engagement and leadership through youth- led pathways with a focus on innovation, and social entrepreneurship, community-based and social media awareness raising and social dialoguing campaigns, in addition to mentorship of youth as part of sustainable community- based youth networks.

General Position Summary:

The Accountant will provide Financial and Accounting support to the GSYC team and network of local partners, donors and stakeholders. S/he will work closely with the Executive Director on all aspects of the GSYC projects and their financial aspects. S/He will provide financial oversight and ensure compliance with all GSYC, local authorities and donors’ regulations, policies, and procedures. S/he will prepare monthly payroll and ensure payroll taxes are paid; perform day-to-day project accounting duties, bank reconciliations, and tax filings. S/he will also prepare and present financial reports, analysis, and recommendations concerning relevant financial issues.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Being responsible for the registration of expenses in the financial system; checking the conformity of allocation to the budget, ensuring proper coding and classification of expenses.
• Follow up on all approved budgets and allowable expenditures, ensuring the proper allocation as per budget lines, while monitoring the over/ under expenditures as well as percentage expenditure on each budget line and provide the Executive Director in all required updates and reports.
• Controlling the daily cash and cheque management and ensuring that all documentation meet GSYC requirements (procedures, deadlines, information, signatures ...). Tracking bills/vouchers, invoices and other running costs and analyzing the related information (costs, service contracts ...) in order to give reliable and updated information.
• Advising the Program Assistant regarding cash replenishment requests and cashbook movements for each petty cash box, ensuring the proper recording of all IN and Out transactions, ensuring that cashbox balances always reflect the actual amount of money kept in the cashboxes and investigating any discrepancy. Ensuring strict compliance with cash control procedures for each cashbox / currency (daily cash control, weekly cash inventory and reconciliations).
• Ensuring monthly accounts report in accordance with GSYC procedures, checking individual entries and preparing the necessary administrative documents (originals) as a basis for justification and explanation of payments and receipts made.
• Ensure that the taxes and income tax obligations are met for both local staff and service providers.
• Calculate employees' fringe benefits, severance pay, and ensure they are accurately reflected in the payroll.
• Preparing cheques and bank transfers, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal controls.
• Preparing all required financial reports and share them with the Executive Director for approvals, as well as any other requested reports.
• Assist in the preparation and coordination of audits, providing necessary documentation and support.
• Following up and matching of internal transfers and advances in the organization, checking invoices and their allocations, preparing fund requests to be sent to donors and share them with the Executive Director.
• Being responsible for filing accounting documents and their annexes, preparing documents for audits, organizing the scanning of documents and archiving organization financial documents.
• Assist in implementing financial policies and procedures to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of financial operations.
• Conduct regular analysis of expenses across various programs and projects, identifying trends, cost variations, and areas for potential cost-saving measures.
• Follow up with the Ministry of Finance regarding the VAT request, deduction at source and Vat exemption for the projects and suppliers.
• Ensure the smooth organization of tax exemption for GSYC projects and activities requested by Executive Director/ Project Manager and/or Program Coordinator.
• Process travel expenses/reimbursements.
• Collaborate with the Executive Director to prepare a comprehensive report on expense analysis, providing insights and recommendations for improving cost-efficiency and financial performance.

• Professional conduct in such a manner as to bring credit to GSYC and not to jeopardize its mission.
• Ensure all GSYC assets and recourses are well kept and utilized properly.
• Ensure that all GSYC premises are kept safe and in good conditions.
• Any other duties as assigned by Executive Director.

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Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2-4 years of relevant professional experience in a comparable position.
• Good experience in working with projects, donors and their procedures and requirements.
• Experience in working with MoF with great knowledge in TAX rules, exemptions and deduction at source.
• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance or any other related field.
• Strong interpersonal communication, presentation, teamwork, and analytical skills.
• Excellent written and oral English and Arabic languages and communication skills with a variety of audiences including businesses, other national and international NGOs and donors, government entities, the general public and the media.
• Ability to think innovatively.
• Experience in project design, project management, and reporting.
• Positive and professional attitude, including ability to work well in a team setting.
• Strong ability to organize work, meet deadlines, maintain composure under pressure, prioritize work, coordinate multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
• Excellent skills using technology and computer software, including but not limited to, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent skills using Financial systems.
• Excellent communication skills and inter-personal skills, and proven ability to build effective working relationships with employers and stakeholders.

Submission Requirements:

Interested candidates are requested to submit the following in English Only:

• Cover letter.
• Two professional references for the last two employers with their contacts’ information.

All the above documents should be sent no later than 5:00 p.m. on the 13th of March 2024 to the following email address:

[email protected]  

Email subject must hold the title “Accountant”, otherwise emails that does not address the title in the subject will be disregarded. Only candidates possessing relevant experiences will be shortlisted.