WE ARE RECRUITING A Senior Accountant

SOS Children’s Villages International is a global organisation established in 1949 that works to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of orphaned and vulnerable children. SOS Children’s Villages International works through member associations in 136 countries and territories worldwide.

SOS Children’s Villages Liberia has been active in the field of children’s rights and committed to children’s need and concerns in Liberia since 1981. We focus our work on children without parental care and children at risk of losing parental care and their communities. The organisation has a wide range of programmes in Monrovia and Buchana, which include children’s villages, a youth facility, kindergartens and high schools, a medical center and family strengthening programmes

We are in search for a Senior Accountant at SOS Children’s Villages Liberia National Office, Monrovia.

Position Title reports directly to the Finance & Controlling Manager

Expectation

To coordinate & provide needed support to all program finance

activities and provide a technical support role to all assigned project /

program accountants

S/he is responsible to exhibit professional & ethical manner of

handling all financial matters relating to National Office/Functions and

programs/ project business e.g. fees, revenues, petty cash, bills etc.

Responsible for collecting, checking, entering/documenting, recording

and reconciling all monies in the appropriate books.

Support the preparation and implementation of budgets in liaison with

the Project Heads.

Position Demands

Must be a bachelor degree holder in finance and accounting

Must have at least 5 years experience in handling financials

A highly experienced and competent accountant with excellent

mathematical accounting, book keeping and computing software

skills.

Computer literacy in order to use SOS Global Accounting software

Excellent organizational and communicative skills.

Honesty integrity trustworthiness and ability to treat all information in

the outmost confidence.

A strong firm approach dealing with difficult personnel e.g. staff and

parents/guardians.

Principal Responsibilities

To ensure that the project operates within its budget.

Monitor & supervise /recommend relevant actions for quality financial management and accountability

To check the monthly running cost has been transferred. To pay revenues into the appropriate SOS Liberia account. To be responsible for the petty cash and to balance at the end of each day.

To prepare and issue cheques, with cheque payment vouchers / valid receipts showing discount.

To prepare petty cash payment and Petty Cash Payment Vouchers / valid receipts showing discount.

To enter all revenues & payments into Revenue, Cash & Bank Registers and balance them daily.

To prepare all necessary adjustments required by using the Extra Journal and submit them to the Finance and Controlling Manager for approval.

To post into SOS Global all transaction booked in the registers & Extra Journal by using the correct account code monthly. To prepare Bank reconciliation at the end of each month. To prepare the monthly financial statement and budget comparison. To be responsible for the safe key.

To be responsible for paying monies to the appropriate SOS Liberia project revenue account c/o National Office and to keep in contact with the bank as necessary.

Evaluation

The Finance and Controlling Manager & the Project Head will assess the performance of the Senior Accountant at least twice a year. The factors that will be considered are:

The completeness, accuracy and order of the financial records The quality, accuracy and promptness of the submission of the required financial statements

The general atmosphere and efficiency with which the accounts office is run

The accuracy of the submitted budget and the efficiency and control of the income & expenditures

Professionalism in dealing with staff, partner & student’s parents / guardians

Child Protection & Child Safeguarding

Protect children from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination.

Report any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately: IF IN DOUBT, SPEAK OUT!

Act without delay: Failure to act may place the child in further danger.

Involve the right people at the right time: CS reports should be made to the CS team at programme level and/or to the respective line manager.

Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply

To apply, submit online only a Curriculum Vitae and a letter of interest addressed to the HROD Manager, and to recruitment.hr@sosliberia.org with the subject line: SALib2022. Closing date for submission of applications is 18 February 2022. Only the successful candidates will be contacted.

What We Stand For:

SOS Children’s Villages is committed to creating and maintaining a caring and protective environment, which promotes its core values, and prevents and addresses child abuse and exploitation. We strongly condemn all forms of child abuse and exploitation, be it within or outside of our organisation, and always respond to any case of proven, alleged or attempted abuse within our sphere of infl uence according to its nature. Eff orts ensure that mechanisms are in place to raise awareness, aid prevention, encourage reporting and ease response. They range from human resource development actions such as training and counselling to measures such as suspension, dismissal, and legal action.

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