About Organisation:

International Lifeline Fund is a non-profit international humanitarian organization with its head office in Washington D.C and a local presence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our team works with local partners and communities to improve the quality of life of the underprivileged by exponentially expanding access to clean water and energy solutions. We strive for a world in which no one suffers from lack of access to clean water and energy.

Lifeline works in two sectors: Energy and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in both the development and humanitarian contexts.

Job Summary:

The Finance Officer is primarily responsible for providing day-to-day operational support to the finance and administration department at Country office level.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Analyze financial information and make recommendations to the program teams and senior management for decision making
• Summarize financial results and effectively communicate them and provide performance reporting, metrics, and analysis of results
• Contribute to the year-end audit
• Assist in budget preparation

General Duties

• Review completeness of supporting documents & preparing payments for review and release
• Ensuring all written and signed checks are paid or bank transfers made to the vendors in a timely manner with all supporting documents completed.
• Keep a copy of paid checks with financial supporting documents.
• Maintain complete supporting financial documents in file organized chronologically.
• Filing all finance documents correctly and ensuring records are up to date at all times.
• Follow-up timely accountabilities and field return for travel, purchase and activity advances.
• Making regular follow ups on all income & proceeds and ensure proper banking and recording of the same on time.
• Ensure that adequate finance forms and templates are available on display for the team use.
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned.

QuickBooks

• Maintenance of QuickBooks ledger for all bank entries, petty cash, vendor and customer transactions
• Post transactions into the system.
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations for the vendor and customer sub ledgers for all balance sheet accounts.

Petty Cash

• Review petty cash requests and make timely replenishment.
• Conduct monthly petty cash reconciliations.

Program management

• Assist programs in planning the weekly and monthly financial activities & annual / Quarterly/ Monthly work plans including forecasts.
• Participating in the regular evaluation of project activities and performance.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration
• Minimum of 2 – 3 years of accounting experience preferably in an international or multi-cultural environment
• Excellent interpersonal, prior managerial experience and organizational skills.
• Effective communication, problem solving and critical decision making.
• Ability and flexibility to handle high levels of pressure to meet very strict deadlines
• Excellent attention to details
• High integrity, unquestionable character and openness coupled with commitment to good management.

NB:

Note that this is open for nationals. Any kind of lobbying will lead to automatic disqualification.

Lifeline provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. Lifeline complies with all applicable local laws governing non-discrimination in employment.

• Analyze financial information and make recommendations to the program teams and senior management for decision making
• Summarize financial results and effectively communicate them and provide performance reporting, metrics, and analysis of results
• Contribute to the year-end audit
• Assist in budget preparation
• Review completeness of supporting documents & preparing payments for review and release
• Ensuring all written and signed checks are paid or bank transfers made to the vendors in a timely manner with all supporting documents completed.
• Keep a copy of paid checks with financial supporting documents.
• Maintain complete supporting financial documents in file organized chronologically.
• Filing all finance documents correctly and ensuring records are up to date at all times.
• Follow-up timely accountabilities and field return for travel, purchase and activity advances.
• Making regular follow ups on all income & proceeds and ensure proper banking and recording of the same on time.
• Ensure that adequate finance forms and templates are available on display for the team use.
• Perform any other duties that may be assigned.
• Maintenance of QuickBooks ledger for all bank entries, petty cash, vendor and customer transactions
• Post transactions into the system.
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations for the vendor and customer sub ledgers for all balance sheet accounts.
• Review petty cash requests and make timely replenishment.
• Conduct monthly petty cash reconciliations.
• Assist programs in planning the weekly and monthly financial activities & annual / Quarterly/ Monthly work plans including forecasts.
• Participating in the regular evaluation of project activities and performance.

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Organizational skills
• Effective communication
• Problem solving
• Critical decision making
• Ability to handle high levels of pressure
• Flexibility to meet very strict deadlines
• Excellent attention to details
• High integrity
• Unquestionable character
• Openness
• Commitment to good management

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business Administration
• Minimum of 2 – 3 years of accounting experience preferably in an international or multi-cultural environment
• Excellent interpersonal, prior managerial experience and organizational skills.
• Effective communication, problem solving and critical decision making.
• Ability and flexibility to handle high levels of pressure to meet very strict deadlines
• Excellent attention to details
• High integrity, unquestionable character and openness coupled with commitment to good management.