Assistant Finance and Administration Officer

Job Title: Assistant Finance and Administrative Officer
Reporting to: Administrative and Finance Manager
Hours: 40 hours per week
Status: Initial one-year contract, with potential extension
Salary: Negotiable
Principal Location: Buea, with frequent travel within Cameroon as necessary

Background:

Street Child believes that every child deserves the chance to go to school and learn. Our projects focus on a combination of education, child protection and livelihood support to address the social, economic and structural issues that underpin today’s education crisis. We partner with local organisations and communities to deliver our locally rooted programmes, using evidence to drive learning and the refinement and scale up of programmes to create maximum impact for the most children at the lowest cost. We pride ourselves on being willing to go to the world’s toughest places where others won’t, including remote, hard-to-reach areas and fragile, disaster-affected states across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Since 2008 we have helped over 250,000 children to go to school and learn, supported over 25,000 families to set up businesses so they can afford the cost of educating their children.

Role Purpose:

Under the overall responsibility of the Country Director of Street Child of Cameroon, and with the direct supervision of the Administrative and Finance Manager, provide support for day-to-day financial administration and grants management working very closely with the Senior Finance Officer and national partner finance team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Financial Management & Reporting:

• Assist the finance lead & partner finance team to ensure that timely and accurate payments are made
• Coordinate with project team for issuance and reconciliation of advances and expenses.
• Ensure completeness of supporting documentation for project activities (eg. attendance sheets, signatures, ID cards).
• Ensure the transactions are entered into the accounting system on regular basis.
• Ensure financial documents are properly filed and uploaded in the cloud.
• Assist in the preparation of and timely submission of information for reports.
• Provides support during audit and external assurances review.

Petty Cash and Banking:

• Processing of petty cash transactions and ensuring petty cash is replenished
• Carry out cash count as per the policy
• Liaise with/visit the bank as needed for collection and submission of documents, as directed by the Finance Lead or Programme Manager
• Assist in monthly bank & account reconciliation.

Administrative Tasks:

• Provide general financial, administrative or logistics support as required for the office management and for projects
• Other tasks as assigned by the supervisor

Required Qualifications and Key Competencies:

• A Degree in Finance, Accounting, Banking and Finance or other related field of study
• Minimum of 1 years of experience directly supporting/managing Finance, HR and administration within an INGO preferably in Cameroon.
• Experience working for an INGO, knowledge of major donor’s compliance requirements
• Strong accounting and bookkeeping skills
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills in English and French
• Possess strong accuracy, attention to detail and ability to follow through
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, exercise discretion and sound judgment.
• Willingness to travel.

Street Child’s commitment to Safeguarding:

Street Child is committed to the safeguarding and protection of the communities we serve, our partners, our volunteers, and our staff.

As part of this commitment to safeguarding, all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate background checks, including a Criminal Records check. Street Child also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.

How to Apply:

Street Child welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

This vacancy announcement shall remain open until filled.