Finance Assistant

About the job

You will be part of the accounting unit in the Accounting department, ensuring compliance with Ukrainian legislation and reporting requirements. You involves supporting and implementing accounting policies and standard operating procedures, providing on-the-job support, and building capacity of the project and support staff. Additionally, You will provide technical support to Accountants at Area and Base offices across Ukraine.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Accounting and Compliance

• Support in checking, calculating and processing the payments of business trips for DRC staff, maintenance of advances to employees.
• Checking DRC Program activities related documents for compliance with Ukrainian legislation.
• Checking the availability of primary documents.
• Collection of documents and preparation documents  for submission to the archive.
• Receiving inbound documentation for accounting processing.
• Control of the authenticity of the necessary documents from supplier, post it in BAF system and control supplier information in BAF system.
• Maintaining, timely entering transactions, posting primary documents, timely updating information in “BAF” software, to do posting the bank statements; expense reports; inventory write off.
• Accounting of property, liabilities (accounting for fixed assets, inventory, etc.)
• Support the registration of transactions and organisation of document flow in the accounting system.
• Ensure compliance with the procedure for maintaining travel documents and checking the relevance of reports.
• Ensure day-to-day accounting functions, including payments verifications, entries into BAF and accounts management and reconciliations monthly.

Additional tasks

• On request perform any other additional duties assigned by the supervisor(s) to allow the organization to function optimally.
• This job description is not a definitive task list but has been drawn up to clarify the responsibilities of the employee.

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to have at least 3 year’s work experience in the field of finance/accounting, preferably in an INGO. Moreover, we also expect the following:

• University degrees (bachelor’s in Accounting / Finance / Audit).
• Advanced proficiency in Ms Office and BAF.
• Ukrainian: Fluent in speaking, reading, and writing.
• English: Intermediate and above is desirable.

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