Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, October 13, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
JOB DESCRIPTION
• The Finance officer will support the Finance Manager in managing the state budgeting, forecasting, disbursement and accounting functions. Other duties and responsibilities include;
• Provide financial management guidance & support to State offices, fielding queries from staff and capacity development of field staff.
• Checking and analysing weekly and monthly spend returns from the State and forwarding of these to the National Finance and Administration Manager.
• In-put of Cash, Bank and Hotel accounts data for the State.
• Maintain an efficient, proper and transparent financial filing system of all documents relating to Finance
• Compile monthly cash-flow forecasts and weekly cash requests.
• Make payments (in cash and cheques) to third parties, issues cash advances and maintain the Advances Register
• Write checks, request/obtain bank statements and oversee the office cash holding
• Manage the office cash in safe and reconcile daily
• Act as the first point of reference for staff at the state level on queries regarding Finance issues and
• assist FM in preparing protocols and guidelines on Finance.
• Undertake visits and field queries from the States to develop capacity and ensure implementation of
• finance guidelines across the States.
• Any other duties which might be allocated.

ROLE SPECIFICATION
• A University degree in accounting, economics, business administration or similar disciplines
• 3 – 6 years’ work experience in a similar role with same responsibility
• Good knowledge of accounting, budgeting techniques, and financial control theory/practices.
• Ability to relate with programme/technical personnel who may have little or no knowledge of financial control procedures and practices.
• Knowledge of the funding, reporting and administrative requirements of FUDO-funded programmes.
• Ability to perform detail-oriented work with a high level of accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Functional independence with the initiative to manage high-volume workflow.
• Skills to interact with diplomacy and tact, and follow up on requests in time and diplomacy and tact, and
• follow up on requests in time and efficient manner.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the ability to work with modern accounting software (e.g. SAGE, QuickBooks, Peachtree, etc).
• Membership of a professional accounting body, or an in-view status of membership will be a big advantage.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure

Qualified candidates should send their CV to ng_recruitment@dai.com  by the 15 h of October 2021. Please state the role and location in the subject of your email.
DAI will only contact candidates that are successful at this pre-qualification stage. More information about DAI
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