Accountant at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. Médecins Sans Frontières provides assistance to populations in distress, to victims of natural or man-made disasters and to victims of armed conflict. They do so irrespective of race, religion, creed or political convictions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Accountant

Location: Kebbi
Contract Period: Definite

Main Purpose

• Controlling the daily cash/check management, supporting the project accounting staff, overseeing and preparing the projects books in accordance with the Finance Manager's instructions and MSF protocols, standards and procedures in order to provide accurate, reliable and updated financial information.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Controlling the daily cash and check management and ensuring that all receipts and documentation meet MSF requirements (procedures, deadlines, information, signatures ...). Tracking bills/vouchers, invoices and other running costs and analyzing the related information (costs, service contracts ...) in order to give reliable and updated information.
• Controlling cash advances and cashbook movements for each petty cash box, recording all IN and Out transactions, ensuring that cashbox balances always reflect the actual amount of money kept in the cashboxes and investigating any discrepancy. Ensuring strict compliance with cash control procedures for each cashbox / currency (daily cash control, weekly cash inventory and reconciliations)
• Performing currency exchange operations in accordance with the country's exchange rate policy
• Ensuring monthly accounts report in accordance with MSF procedures, checking individual entries and preparing the necessary administrative documents (originals) as a basis for justification and explanation of payments and receipts made.
• Preparing the timely payment of taxes.
• Being responsible for the processing of accounting software peripheral accounting (project and capital) including checking the quality of the mission accounting allocations and their conformity (correct encoding of salaries, following up and matching of internal transfers and advances in the mission, checking invoices and their allocations, preparing payment order documents to be sent to HQ). Analyzing the problems of the cash box discrepancies and giving technical help to find solutions.
• Being responsible for filing accounting documents and their annexes, preparing documents for audits, organizing the scanning of documents and archiving mission financial documents
• Informing supervisors of any issues / problems that may arise in their job performance |
• Ensure, promote and maintain confidentiality regarding all information registered.

MSF Section/Context Specific Accountabilities:

• Controlling the daily cash and check management and ensuring that all receipts and documentation meet MSF requirements(procedures,deadlines,information,signature).Tracking bills/vouchers,invoices and other running costs and analysing the related information(costs,service contracts) in order to give reliable and updated information.
• Ensuring a monthly account report and in accordance with MSF procedures,checking individual entries and preparing the necessary administrative documents (originals) as a basis for justification and explanation of payments and receipts made.
• Check invoices and receipts for completeness and accuracy before processing payment.
• Ensuring witholding taxes are correctly deducted and remitted according to the tax law.
• Encode in Unifield all invoices in the respective registers(cash,bank,etc),respecting the MSF chart accounts,Mission validating table,and project budget allocation(BUDGET LINES)Cash transaction must be encoded immediately.
• Ensure close and proper follow up of all advances to suppliers and staff
• Perfom cashier duties(opening and closing of cash advances)respecting project money security guidelines and rules.
• Ensure proper filling of all accounting vouchers and documents.
• Scan monthly accounting vouchers and upload to the oneDrive share point.
• Carry out weekly and monthly bank and cash reconciliation
• Be the person of contact for accounting and payments questions from other departments
• Follow up on the bank statements and check outsanding payments to suppliers together in collaboration with other departments .
• Handle contract management :Ensuring that all leases,purchases frameworks,service agreements,and other MSF contracts are scanned,kept and updated in a share point for reference and follow up

Minimum Required Skills and Qualifications

• Education: Essential diploma or professional qualification in Accounting / Finance / Business Administration
• Experience: Minimum of one (1) year experience in Administration and Accounting with MSF or other NGO.
• Languages: English essential. Local language (Hausa) desirable.
• Knowledge: Computer literacy essential (Microsoft Excel/Word)
• Competencies: Teamwork & cooperation, Commitment to MSF principles, Behavioural flexibility, Result-oriented.

Application Closing Date
13th June, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: MSF is an equal opportunity employer, both men and women are encouraged to apply.