Financial Officer

Vacancy Financial Officer SPARK  Ramallah

General SPARK information
SPARK is a fast growing, young, dynamic development NGO with activities in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East. SPARK develops higher education and entrepreneurship, and through its programs it stimulates ambitious people to start or grow small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s). It does so by training, capacity building, links with business networks, marketing opportunities and assisting in business barrier removal. This will benefit –potential– entrepreneurs, unemployed youth, organizations supporting these entrepreneurs and vulnerable groups.

General job description
SPARK is looking for a Financial Officer (m/f) for 32 hours per week to control all financial matters related to our new SME Development program in Ramallah and be the main contact of SPARK headquarters in Amsterdam for all financial matters.
Main tasks and responsibilities
• Train and coach local partner organizations in the improvement of their financial management systems;
• Coach partner organizations is drafting activity budgets and reporting on these budgets;
• Coach partner organizations in the preparation of external financial audits at their organizations;
• Be the main contact for financial matters to all partners in the country and to the Finance department of SPARK in HQ in the Netherlands;
• Control and process financial reports of local partners
• Making payments for Spark office and process all payments in the bookkeeping system
• Prepare monthly reports of Spark office
• Administrating Spark Car use and make bookings
• Maintain contact with local bank and micro-finance institution

Requirements and competencies
• Professional experience in training and coaching in Financial Management, ideally in a private sector environment;
• Experience in project cycle management, especially in drawing up activity budgets and reporting to donors;
• Accurate
• Structured
• Flexible
• Responsible
• Good oral and written language skills in English and Arabic
• Good team worker while able to work independently
• Good communication and social skills and able to work in multicultural setting
• Working experience in a prior comparable job is an advantage

SPARK offers
• Contract for 32 hours a week;
• International environment;
• Dynamic working experience;
• Training opportunities.

If you are interested, please email your letter of motivation and your CV to Frank Boerhave at [email protected], copy to [email protected] before 2 May 2011. Indicate the reference: Vacancy Financial Officer Ramallah in the subject of the mail. Only complete applications, including the letter, the CV and the correct reference, mailed to both emails, will be considered. Only successful candidates will be contacted.

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