Financial Manager

Project Summery: Empowering Palestinian Judicial System – Seyada II is an EU funded project designed to empower the Palestinian Judiciary. The objectives are to assist in strengthening the judicial institutions, improving the legal frame work for the judiciary and first of all to increase the capacities of the people that are forming the Palestinian judicial system, in order to improve the efficiency of their work. The Project will start in August 2008
with planned lifetime of 36 months till July 2012. We are currently seeking:
Duty station: Ramallah

Main Responsibilities:
- Manage day-to-day financial activities
- Financial Administration
- Support in preparation of commitments and payments
- Preparation of documents for mission settlements
- Financial support to general operational activities
- Ensure effective support in providing information and guidance to the international experts regarding the time sheets and mission reports
- Manage the online tool for registering all the financial operations and cash
- Prepare budget requests
- Translation from English to Arabic vice versa
- Perform additional duties as assigned that fall within the reasonable scope of this position and as requested by the Project Manager, and assists and accepts responsibility in other daily center duties that might be temporary in the event other personnel are not available.
Qualifications:
- At least University degree in finance, English education or any related field
- At least 2 years experience in similar projects
- Enthusiasm and commitment to achieve results in a team of local and international experts
- Proficiency in written and spoken English, experience in translation will be considered as advantage.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to meet deadlines and to work under pressure.
- Good knowledge in office computer programs, such as MS Office, internet applications is required.
Interested candidates should send their CVs with a cover letter to the following email address: (Listed Below) or to fax # -(listed below) indicating the position title not later than 31st July 2009.
PLEASE NOTE THAT APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AFTER THE DEADLINE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

ICON-INSTITUT Public Sector in consortium with the Belgian Technical Cooperation and the Centre for International Legal Cooperation