Assistant Finance & Admin Officer/Tigray/

• Ensure the availability of adequate petty cash as per the limit stated in the financial guidelines of HelpAge, Handle payments and receipts and process according to the established rules and procedures.
• Prepare payment vouchers and effect payment as approved by the responsible person designated; Make sure that vouchers are checked, verified, and approved by the Project Manager.
• Keep complete and accurate documentation; Travel to the field to facilitate and effect payments.
• Update the cashbook and submit monthly the reconciled account to her/ his line manager.

• Handle receiving and issuing store goods/items; update stock card and submit monthly stock movement by a fifth of the following months.
• Organise the provision of efficient administrative support to staff and teams.
• Organise the efficient, cost-effective, and reliable provision of IT services.
• Be responsible for processing the documents required for legal compliance in Ethiopia.
• Overall responsibility for the central/main filing systems, both paper and electronic.

Safeguarding responsibilities

• Preventing harm and abuse from our people, operations, and programs to anyone who encounters our work.
• Reporting all safeguarding incidents, you see, hear, hear about, or suspect, using our internal reporting mechanism and complying with all safeguarding framework policies and practices.

Ref No: HAI/Prog/ 03 /24

Department: Finance

Responsible to:Sub Office Program Manager

Duty Station: Aksum/Adwa

Length of Contract: Nine Month

Key Relationship:

Internal: Addis and Field: Country Director, Humanitarian Program team, Programme staff, Head of Finance & Operation with the team and Communications Officer

Qualification:

Person Specification

Essential

• University degree in accounting with at least 5 years of experience for Diploma holders and 2 years for BA in accounting; Experience in cash handling and stock management
• Extensive experience in administrative activities in a busy office environment, report writing, and compiling monthly information.
• Excellent communication skills in both written and oral English and Amharic
• Ability to manage filing systems quickly and systematically and willing to travel and live in remote locations.
• Use of Excel, word processing, and email is a requirement.
• Experience in non-governmental - organizations (NGOs) in Ethiopia is an advantage.
• Knowledge of Financial and administrative management.
• Strong knowledge of spreadsheets and its use are the requirements