South Sudan: Assistant Financial Controller

General Description of the Programme:

GOAL South Sudan (SS) started working in Twic County in 1998, running an emergency relief project due to a famine throughout Bahr el Ghazal state. GOAL SS now runs public health programmes in the states of Bahr el Ghazal, Upper Nile and southern Blue Nile State. Public health activities include curative primary health care, based on the management of primary health clinics; preventative health care including HIV/AIDS messaging, malaria control and hygiene promotion; nutrition and food security, water and sanitation engineering and clinic construction/rehabilitation.

General Description of the Role:
Support the Financial Controller in managing the GOAL South Sudan Finance Department in the month end process and under the supervision of the Financial Controller improve existing work practices to ensure compliance with donor and other regulatory requirements.

Duties and responsibilities:

**** Ensure timely preparation of donor reporting for review by the Financial Controller prior to submission to donors;

 Manage and ensure donor files are complete and well maintained in accordance with GOAL Dublin and Donor requirements

 Assist the month end process and timetable, ensuring all tasks are completed

 Assist month end accounts for review with FC/CD

 Respond to month end account queries from HO in a timely manner

 Conduct periodic compliance checks of finance, HR, logistics and programme documentation required for donor audits.

 Review and update cost apportionment basis to Donors and ensure supporting documentation is reasonable and appropriately filed.

 Assist the Financial Controller in the preparation donor budgets.

 Support Financial Controller in liaising with programme staff to help ensure accurate expenditure forecasting and budget monitoring; update forecasts in SAGE

 Financial training and capacity building of locally recruited accounts staff in relation to donor compliance and control procedures.

 Review of time sheets to ensure compliance with donor requirements and reconciliation to monthly accounts.

 Preparation of documentation to facilitate in donor audits, and internal audits ;

 Support Financial Controller in implementation and review of systems of financial control;

 Any other duties as may be assigned by the Financial Controller or the Country Director.

Requirements:

**** A qualified Accountant (Chartered, Certified or Management)

 Three years post qualified experience

 Experience with management of Institutional Donor grants preferable eg: OFDA/ USAID, ECHO, DFID etc

 Work experience in busy, changing environment

 Excellent written and spoken English, outgoing personality with excellent communication and training skills

 Ability and willingness to work in a remote areas.

 Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word and if possible have knowledge of Sage desirable or a similar package.

 Ability to implement effective projects sometimes with limited resources.

 Good team player, flexible and capable of working with a multinational country team.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Unfortunately GOAL cannot contribute to financial costs incurred when attending interview. |

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