Finance Technical Assistant

The finance assistant will help implement and monitor NRC’s financial management activities in Country office/ The finance assistant role is to assist in day-to-day implementation of financial responsibilities as defined. 

Generic responsibilities 

1. Adhere to NRC policies, tools, handbooks, and guidelines
2. Implements independently procedures and activities within own function or core competency as delegated
3. Responsible for organizing and delivery of tasks in line with priorities and standards
4. Develop and maintain knowledge of the specialist area of work in which technical assistance and support is being provided, to be most effective in supporting the team
5. Use initiative in day-to-day problem solving in line with agreed procedures, priorities and standards for the area of work
6. Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
7. Ensure proper filing of documents 
8. Promote and share ideas for improvement in the area of Livelihoods and Food Security

    

   Specific responsibilities

   1. Archiving, organizing, and updating financial documents both in hard and soft.
   2. Scanning and filing of all financial documents in soft.
   3. Ensure that all the documents are properly placed, properly filed and labelled.
   4. Manage the soft filling.
   5. Providing vouchers to auditors and place them back in the file folder.
   6. Help accountants on filing of monthly financial vouchers.
   7. Maintain records to ensure the long term preservation and easy retrieval of documents and information.
   8. Upon request of finance staff scan the documents and vouchers.
   9. Make sure and advice the users on how to best to access, use and retrieve the archives.
   10. Ensure financial documents are collected from field offices regularly and on time.
   11. Liaise with compliance department audit and finance for any matter related to archive.
   12. Assist tax officer in all taxation matters including but not limited to extracting documents and preparing tax report in case necessary.
   13. Help the finance staff in the acquisition and retrieval of documents.
   14. Any other task assigned by the supervisor.

       Competencies 

       Competencies are important for the employee and the organisation to deliver desired results. They are relevant for all staff and are divided into the following two categories:

       📚 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯! 🌍🤝 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥, 𝗪𝗙𝗣, 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗘𝗙, 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗦, 𝗨𝗡𝗙𝗣𝗔, 𝗜𝗢𝗠 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🌐

       ⚠️ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐰: 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐣𝐨𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

       Professional competencies 

       These are skills, knowledge and experience that are important for effective performance. 

       Generic professional competencies for this position: 

   15. Good written and spoken Somali Good spoken English.
9. Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word.

Context related skills, knowledge, and experience: 

Behavioural competencies

These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies and the following are essential for this position: