Finance Intern at Save the Children Nigeria

Save the Children is the leading independent organization for children in need, with programs in over 120 countries. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. Save the Children is working in Nigeria because one in five children in Nigeria dies before their fifth birthday. About 40% of children miss out on school and have to work to survive while nearly 2 million children have lost one or both parents to an AIDS-related disease.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance Intern

Job Identification: 10602
Location: Kaduna
Contract Length: 1 year
Team/Programme: Finance
Reports to: Finance Coordinator, Kaduna
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Technical responsibility: None
Budget responsibility: None

Role Purpose

• The Finance Intern has responsibility to support Payments, receipts and disbursement of funds.
• He/she will provide support to the finance unit.

Key Areas of Accountability
Fund Disbursement:

• Writing of Cheques as approved by relevant budget holders.
• Maintain proper filing and easy retrieval of finance documentation.
• Perform Bank related activities (Pick up Bank Statements, collect office running cash, etc….)
• Conduct weekly and month end cash counts. 
• Payment of participants and other SCI cash payments in and out of the office
• Update daily Cash GLACOS and reconcile cash and book balances.
• Upload Bank transfers online on OMNI platform.

Cash Flow:

• Maintain petty cash with strong supervision from the Finance Coordinator
• Update & maintain manual cash book.
• Maintain optimum cash balances and advises the Finance Coordinator for cash replenishment (including emergencies).

Financial Information and other support functions:

• Assist during audit to retrieve all relevant documents for audit exercise.
• Assist others requiring information on transactions to retrieve relevant payment vouchers and documentation for their use.

System Administration:

• Registration of all paid invoices on Agresso on daily basis.
• Single Account Reconciliation
• Weekly cash Reconciliation
• Upload invoice on prosave.

Others:

• Preparing Tax, NHF, and pension payment schedules and cheques to be remitted to the Tax authorities and the various pensions’ administrators and remitting same on a timely basis
• Ensure all documents are filed and stamped “PAID.”
• Participate in due diligence process.
• Any other duties as assigned by the supervisor or line manager.

Qualifications and Experience
Essential:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, HND or its equivalent.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Experience in computerized and accounting systems.
• Honesty.

Working Relationships:

• Internal: Finance Staff/Program Staff/Support Staff/Signatories
• Eternal: Vendors/Consultants.

Competencies and Behaviours (Our Values in Practice)
Core Competencies:

• Delivering results: Applying technical and professional expertise – Working effectively with others – Communicating with impact
• Adhere to SCI Values: Accountability; Ambition; Collaboration; Creativity; Integrity.

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values.
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same.
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others.
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters.
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength.
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions.
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

Equal Opportunities: 

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

Child Safeguarding:

• We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

Safeguarding our Staff:

• The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety:

• The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

Application Closing Date
12th December, 2024; 02:35 PM