Senior Accountant Officer

Senior Accountant Officer, Jerusalem – National Position

The position is full time and hired locally.

Location: Jerusalem,

Reporting to: Senior Accountant

Supervising: No supervision responsibilities

Closing date for applications: 2nd of November 2022

Applicants are required to uphold the core values of our organization.

The Lutheran World Federation is looking for a Senior Accountant for the LWF Jerusalem Program.

Terms of Reference

Main outcome of the role:

Ensuring that LWF accounts and financial records comply with LWF financial policies and standards in addition to the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and meet deadlines of the different reporting requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day work activities of the finance team.
• Keep up to date of changes to financial accounting standards both the LWF and the IFRS.
• Provide appropriate and reliable financial advice, recommendations and expert technical interpretation on complex strategic and operational matters in a manner easily interpreted by stakeholders.
• Analyze and review a variety of financial documents, reports and proposals including briefing and discussion papers ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Review and prepare end of month reports for the LWF.
• Assist in preparing the end of year financial statements.
• Oversee Ministry of Education funding, workshop production orders, and student fee income to ensure it is properly handled.
• Regularly review balance sheet accounts reconciliations.
• Enter the annual working budgets for the LWF Basket Funded projects and others into Sage.
• Prepare monthly the employees’ benefits report for the insurance company CLAL.
• Assist in maintaining LWF West Bank employees’ health insurance.
• Review the daily financial transactions (PVs, RVs, JVs) recorded by the accountant.
• Review the monthly deduction at source prepared by the accountant and prepare the annual LWF & AVH deduction at source report.
• Prepare the monthly West Bank staff income tax payment reports
• Prepare the monthly deduction at source reports

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Requirements:

• Degree in accounting or any related field.
• 5 years’ experience in accountancy.
• CPA and/or CMA is an asset.
• Good computer skills.
• Fluency in English and in Arabic.
• Good communication skills.
• Collaboration
• Ability to work independently and under pressure.

Selection Process

Short listed applicants shall be subjected to a pre-employment written assignment. Those who pass the assignment shall be qualified to the interviews.

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is a global communion of 148 churches in the Lutheran tradition, representing 75.5 million Christians in 99 countries. LWF World Service works in 25 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean.  LWF Jerusalem program has served the Palestinians in Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza through humanitarian, health and educational programs since 1948. LWF manages the Augusta Victoria Hospital, two vocational training centers in Ramallah and in East Jerusalem and its central office is on the Mount of Olives.

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