Finance Officer I at Breakthrough Action-Nigeria

Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria is a five-year (2017-2022), USAID-funded project. The goal of Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria is to increase the practice of 17 priority individual and household level behaviors and five provider targeted behaviors in the areas of malaria; maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition; family planning and reproductive health (RH); and tuberculosis, while increasing the capacity of national and sub-national entities to coordinate and oversee quality SBC programming. Implementation will vary by health area across eleven states.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Finance Officer I

Location: Abuja

Summary

• The Finance Officer I will together with other finance team members implement efficient finance activities within the office, and responsible for ensuring all BA-Nigeria cost share is captured and adequately documented.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• In addition to the overall technical inputs to the project described above, specific duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Support the DFA to ensure all cost share opportunities are identified, captured and documented on a monthly basis.
• Ensure retroactive identification and capture of all cost share from project inception to date.
• Update BA-Nigeria cost share tracker on a regular basis and ensure proper documentation and filling of all cost share support documentation.
• Liaise with HQ and Field Offices staff in capturing all cost hare opportunities and obtaining necessary support documentation on a regular basis.
• Assist with the monthly finance QuickBooks report by imputing invoices into the accounting software.
• Ensure PAYE and Withholding Taxes are remitted before the last day of the month to the responsible parties.
• Monitor budget expenditures against approved budgets.
• Assist finance training for new staff on project finance operations;
• Review purchase orders, time and attendance records and prepare necessary reports for the project finance and senior management team;
• Ensures that all supporting documents are available and attached to the payment vouchers
• Withdraws cash from the bank for program activities and makes necessary disbursements after obtaining necessary approvals;
• Ensure travel advances and activity retirements from the field office are retired before they are due;
• In close coordination with relevant finance staff, assist with monthly bank reconciliation
• Prepares Local Purchase Orders using JHU/CCP formats;
• Prepares source documents for both cash and check payments;
• Supervise all field office petty cash transactions;
• Assist with identification and payments to vendors, ensure proper authorization for payments, distribute payments as required; supervise the processing of staff claims and advances;
• Additional duties assigned to by their supervisor

Application Closing Date
14th November, 2019.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Cover Letters and CV only as one PDF document to: hiring@ba-nigeria.org

Note
To apply for this position, please follow the instructions exactly as described below. Any submissions that do not follow the instructions exactly will be discarded without review:

• Address the education/experience requirement specified for the position with specific examples where necessary.
• Language skills.(Please note that language skills will be tested during interviews for shortlisted candidates.)
• Include the specific date when you would be able to begin work.
• CV and cover letter PDF file name must be your first and last name in CAPS (e.g.: USMAN SEGUN).
• The subject line of your email should be the job title along with the job location. E.g. “Finance Officer I - Abuja”
• Do not include any additional certificates or documentation. Any applications that include certificates or other documents will be deleted immediately.