Cashier (Maternity Cover for 5 months)

General Information

Humanity and Inclusion (formerly Handicap International) is an independent and impartial aid organization working in poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster. Working alongside persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, our actions and testimony are focused on responding to their essential needs and improving their living conditions. HI is a non-governmental, non-religious, non-political, and non-profit making organization.

General Mission

The Cashier is responsible for the regular bookkeeping of one or more cash boxes, keeping the advances ledger, checking supporting documents, preparing payments, and compliance with the organization's standards and the country's regulatory framework.

Missions / Responsibilities

Mission 1: Strategy and steering

• Monitors and reports to his or her line manager and functional manager on the cash-related risks of which he or she is aware and contributes towards their mitigation.

Mission 2: Standards and expertise

• Deploys all of HI’s cash-flow management policies, processes, and tools within his or her area of responsibility.
• Complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• Contributes to internal control within his or her area of responsibility and implements the corrective actions identified.

Mission 3: Operational implementation

Responsibility 1: Makes payments and pays advances

• Pays in and disburses money from the cash boxes for which he or she is responsible and records the movements in a cash ledger.
• Pays advances, records them in an advance ledger, and clears them.
• Regularly checks the cashbox balances against the cash ledger and the advances ledger.
• Monitors the availability of cash in the cash boxes and alerts the Treasurer if there is a risk of shortage.
• Prepares cheques and bank transfer orders, submits them to the bank signatories, and keeps a copy.
• Monitors the number of checkbooks available and orders new ones as necessary.
• Adheres to security and safekeeping procedures and alerts his or her supervisor in the event of an incident.
• Carries out cash inventories and informs the accountant of any outstanding advances at the closing of accounts.

Responsibility 2: Ensures the quality and availability of supporting documents

• Checks the admissibility of the supporting documents concerning HI and country rules and transmits these supporting documents to the accountant for recording in the accounting Information System (IS) and archiving.
• Monitors advances and their supporting documents.
• Prepares any supporting documents asked for by internal or external auditors.

Mission 4: Emergency preparedness and response

• Contributes to the program's emergency preparedness actions and, during an emergency, adapts his/her work modality to contribute to HI’s effective humanitarian response.

Specific qualifications required

Qualification: School-leaving certificate level with experience or Diploma in Accounting 

Skills

Professional skills – Finance

Cash-flow management

Accounts management

Tax management knowledge and experience

Language: English is the working language of HI.

How To Apply

Interested candidates must complete the application form through this link: 

https://forms.office.com/e/d3paUQVf9w?origin=lprLink  on/before the application deadline. 

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an exam/interview. No phone calls, Please.

We’re committed to safeguarding and promoting child protection and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This position involves working with beneficiaries and is subject to strict safer recruitment checks. The successful candidate will be required to complete a police check and sign a self-declaration form to help us verify your suitability to work with children including checks with past employers.

Humanity & Inclusion is an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes women and persons with disability.