Financial Officer

AMIDEAST, is an international, non-profit, educational organization in the West Bank and Gaza with offices throughout the Middle East and North Africa. AMIDEAST is recruiting a number of positions for a USAID-funded project to be based in its Ramallah office.

Financial Officer

The Financial officer will be responsible for helping in Financial & Procurement services of the USAID Funded Project, such as the day-to-day accounting and financial processes, operations support, and providing support to the finance department and procurement team. Provide support
in-terms of processing vouchers, and maintaining a financial record keeping system for the project. Assist in Procurement and logistics matters.

Overall Position Responsibilities:
-Managing the accounting and financial operations for the project, maintaining all accounting records.
-Prepare vouchers (Payments, Receipts and Journals) and assure full support documentation for project transactions.
-Prepare payroll sheet and related tax deductions
-Post vouchers, on daily base, into Deltek accounting software and insure appropriate and consistence coding of entries and transactions.
-Observe USAID Funded Project cash account and insure sufficiency of fund to cover due payments/expenses.
-Be the contact person with the project -Account-Hosted Bank regarding all correspondences and matters needed.
-Prepare monthly bank reconciliations for Project bank and petty cash accounts
-Prepare & manage all monthly, quarterly and annually financial reports.
-Monitor The USAID Project budget through updating the actual expenses on quarterly base.
-Communicate with vendors regarding payments processing, arrangements for VAT exemptions with the Palestinian Ministry of Finance.
-Filling all financial documents on a daily base.
-Following up with all related audit issues.
-Prepare and submit monthly VAT reports to USAID
-Any other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications and Required Skills
-Bachelor’s degree preferably in accounting, finance or business administration.
-At least two years of experience in accounting, preferably with USAID funded projects.
-Fluency in English and Arabic.
-Excellent knowledge of software applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, and e-mail.


NOTE:
These position descriptions are not intended to be all-inclusive, and the incumbents will perform other reasonable business-related duties as assigned by immediate supervisors and other managers when necessary. AMIDEAST reserves the right to amend duties and responsibilities as needed to ensure effective and efficient project implementation.

Interested candidates should send a cover letter indicating the specific position and resume to

[email protected]

Only individuals selected for further consideration will be contacted.
The closing date for applications is 5:00pm, Tuesday April 9,2013
 

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