Assistant Coordinator, Finance and Resource Management at Nigerian Red Cross Society

The Nigerian Red Cross, as part of its strategic plan to position itself as Nigeria’s leading humanitarian and disaster management intervention organization, is currently recruiting highly professional and mission-focused individuals to fill the key position below in the organization.

Successful candidates will be joining a visionary organization with an extensive network of local branches in every state and over 800,000 volunteers working closely with those in need of humanitarian assistance.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Assistant Coordinator - Finance and Resource Management

Location: Abuja

Job Summary

• Responsible for Accounting, payroll, budgeting, reporting, cash forecasts, review of branch returns and justifications.

Reporting lines:

• The position reports to the Head of Finance and Resources Management

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for processing payroll, remitting payroll taxes as well as preparing monthly, quarterly and year-end payroll statements.
• Collecting, calculating, and entering data in order to maintain and update payroll information
• Ensuring that all payroll transactions are processed efficiently
• Prepare Payroll bank transfer each month end
• Compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions and reporting on this
• Making monthly returns of PAYE and WHT deductions to FIRS and other tax authorities.
• Prepares and reconciles WHT schedule
• Prepares and reconciles PAYE schedule
• Makes monthly remittance of pension contributions
• Resolving payroll discrepancies(if any)

Budgeting & Reporting:

• Provide input, support and guidance to the budget process by working closely with program staff. This includes core cost budget and program activity budget
• Support in review of branch budgetsfor quality assurance purposes and ensuring that costed budgets are realistic and arithmetically checked as correct
• Input the budget in the accounting software once approved.
• Support in review of Finance branch reports, ensuring that costs are booked into correct budget lines and cost centres
• Check and review partner financial reports

Cash Flow Management:

• Monitor cash flow for both HQ and branches, ensuring that the activities are not disrupted because of in availability of funds. Work closely with branch finance and management team.
• Prepare cash requests and ensure that all supporting documents are adequate

Branch focal point for receiving financial returns:

• Review Zonal /Branch financial returns
• Consolidating Zonal financial returns with Headquarters financial records.
• Prepares and process branch funds advance/disbursement requests
• Support in finance capacity building plans for the branches

Asset Management:

• Custodian of Asset Register of NRCS inventory of equipment and assets and updating of the register on monthly basis
• Tagging exercise for all equipment
• Coordinate and conduct assets verification exercise and submission of annual fixed asset register to SG
• Work closely with logisticians towards upholding best practices in asset management
• Plan and Coordinate periodic verification of Stock takes.

Job Qualifications and Requirements

• University degree in accounting or finance with preference professional certification in accounting (ACCA/CPA/CNA)
• Excellent written and oral communication skill in English
• Excellent Microsoft Office application especially Excel. Desirable knowledge in financial system applications
• A minimum of Five years relevant work experience in finance and accounting is required.
• Proven experience in managing large budgets
• Demonstrated expertise in using accounting systems
• Ability to provide technical guidance and advise especially to non-finance colleagues
• Understanding of development field such as NGOs or institutional donors is desirable
• Demonstrated record of accurate and timely reporting
• Ability to multi-task effectively, including having excellent planning, organizational skills, and the ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to complete task and meet deadlines.
• Detail-oriented approach with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Can communicate and present in clear, precise and structured ways and effectively.

Application Closing Date
8th February, 2019.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their Curriculum Vitae and application letters with the position applied for as subject of the email to: [email protected]

Note: Only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.