Who we are
SOS Children’s Villages Ethiopia is an International Non-governmental organization and a member of SOS Children’s Villages International Federation. We started our humanitarian work in Ethiopia with the opening of our first Village in Mekelle, Northern part of Ethiopia in 1974. Since then, we have expanded our programs to different regions where there are significant needs for intervention and where we believe we can work in partnership with all relevant actors to bring sustainable positive outcomes for children’s and young people.
Today, we have grown significantly to meet the persistent challenges that confront Ethiopian children who have lost parental care and those that are at risk of losing their parental care. Working in close collaboration with international donors, local government and community based organizations across seven program locations; we aspire that every child grows up with love, respect and security.
Position Summary
Under the guidance and control of the location finance manager, the Program accountant is responsible for receiving payments made to the Program, depositing cash and cheques received to the bank account, and effecting cash and cheque payments as per the directives thereon. He/she carries out the activities of journalizing and posting income and expenditures, debit and credit of various accounts timely and appropriately. He/she assists in the closing of accounts and preparation of financial statements.
Further, the program accountant is also responsible for looking after the SOS CV assets to ensure that they are well kept, depreciated correctly, and kept in records, also ensure that assets reflecting on the fixed assets register (FAR) are maintained and insured, labelled according to the fixed assets’ policy, and distributed to the correct users and locations.
The incumbent is required to carry out his/her duties following the SOS CV Safeguarding policies and regulations, the Code of Conduct, the values-based competency frame “Living our Values” and any further international and local regulation that influences safeguarding at SOS CV.
PRIORITY TASK AND RESPONSIBILITY
- Review of financial requests,accounts for projects/facility under the program location
- Review payment requests for accuracy, completeness, compliance, level of authorization and clarity on the invoices.
- Reviews disbursement requests for accuracy, documentation and validity; effect payment to the right vendor from the right project.
- Review and ensure all payment vouchers have all the necessary supporting documents.
- Review financial records of all projects under the program location
- Review accounts on a regular basis to ensure the balances are complete and accurate;
- Receives original transaction documents, checks completeness and correctness and passes them to immediate supervisor
- Checks completeness and appropriateness of supporting documents of both income and expenditure transactions, codes, and documents for account recording, ensures timely recording of all transactions.
- Organizes and maintains accounting filing
- Ensures income tax, social Security contributions and other payments are paid promptly.
- Ensures that all income has been lodged to the bank
- depositing cash and cheques received to the bank account promptly.
- Follow-up and control payable and receivable accounts.
- Assists the Location finance manager in the Implementation of the internal control system and financial procedures manual of the organization.
- Provides technical support to the program location facilities in SOS Children’s Village Program (CVP) financial management-related issues.
- Carries out and performs other similar duties as assigned by the Location Finance Manager
Asset Control and Management
- Build, load and maintain the fixed assets register.
- Coordinates the movement of fixed assets in the program location and ensures assets are labelled
- Ensures that the fixed assets register (FAR) complies with the rules and regulations as per the Fixed Asset Management Policy and Donor rules and regulations.
- Labels and records the Program location fixed assets before distributing to users and record details on the FAR.
- Removes assets from the FAR when they are expired, absolute or stolen. Compile a report on program location fixed assets and submit to line manager.
- Responsible for accurate asset details on all fixed assets for auditing purposes.
Safeguarding (Child,young people, adult and asset)
- Responsible for taking part in awareness-raising sessions and capacity building training in relation to Safeguarding to prevent and protecting children, young people, adults and asset from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
- Support children, young people and adults to make them understand the safeguarding risks and protection mechanisms
- Ensure that safeguarding measures are in place within area of his/her responsibility and that staff, associates and other key stakeholders are aware of safeguarding principles and measures.
- Responsible for reporting any safeguarding suspicion, concern, allegation, or incident immediately, following the safeguarding reporting procedures. Safeguarding reports should be made to the safeguarding team at the program level and/or to the respective line manager; and
- Responsible for ensuring behaviours and all relationships are based on safeguarding and in line with the Code of Conduct and adhering to it in every situation.
- Conduct themselves per the Code of Conduct, Safeguarding and Local/Country Policies and Procedures.
- Be vigilant about any possible form of abuse/harm, neglect, harassment, or exploitation against, children, youth and adults in personal and professional lives.
- Report any safeguarding incident or concern within 24 hours to the Incident Management Team, focal person or concerned party through the defined channels for reporting the allegation
Job Requirements
Up for the challenge?
Then check out our criteria’s:
Must Criteria
- Education: BA in Accounting & Finance
- Experience: Two or more years of directly relevant work experience in an NGO environmnet.
Competencies – Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Understanding the organization and commitment to its vision and mission: able to clearly communicate SOS Children’s Villages Who We Are (Vision, Mission & Values), “Living our Values” policies and strategies in all areas.
- Organisation and Planning: Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple assignments simultaneously
- Communication Skill: - Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to Detail: - excellent in attention to detail and working on routine activities with initiative
- Customer service orientation: - Has excellent customer service orientation and professional demeanour.
- Confidentiality: Discretion in dealing with confidential and sensitive information of the organization
- Software: Proficiency in MS applications especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint and D365,
- Integrity and Ethics: Strong set of personal values including integrity, honesty and desire to be of service
Core Competencies
The following set of value-based competencies are behaviors that are expected from everyone who works for or on behalf of SOS Children’s Villages to achieve a culture of safeguarding.
Core competency
- Kindness: Act with empathy towards everyone he/she works with.
- Continuous Learning: Make an effort to learn, understand and grow as a person, admitting your own mistakes.
- Inclusiveness: In any actions show respect and care for others.
- Initiative: speak up when things are not right, do not hesitate to act, and adapt to change when necessary.
- Results Orientation: look for solutions and focus on desired results
How to Apply
Excited to take on a new Challenge...
Then send us your application (application letter, detailed CV containing contact details of their references) electronically through SOS Children Villages Application portal (ICIMS)
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Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
SOS Children’s Villages in Ethiopia holds strict child safeguarding principles and a zero-tolerance policy for conduct of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse in the workplace and other places where the organization’s activities are rendered. Parallel to technical competence, recruitment, selection, and hiring decisions will give due emphasis to assessing candidates value congruence and thorough background checks, and police clearance reference check processes.
SOS Children's Villages in Ethiopia provides equal employment opportunities to all co-workers & qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or class.
