Location: Hawassa , Ethiopia
Organization: World Vision International
Deadline: January 3, 2026
Job Description
Employee Contract Type: Local – Temporary
1. Accounting Operations
- Ensure the financial and accounting integrity of World Vision Ethiopia.
- Process funding transfer for Hub and APs as per funding request formats and procedures.
- Facilitate local travel and business advance and medical payment requests and pass the necessary entries and follow up their settlement.
- Handle disbursement activities at Program Hub level as per the
- partnership financial manual and internal financial policies and guidelines.
- Follow-Up long outstanding advances and payables on monthly basis and keep records up-to-date.
- Follow up bank matters and ensure all incoming and outgoing funds are accounted and supported with necessary backups.
- Journalize and summarize transactions by cost center and send hold data for review and posting to FAMs.
- Provide assistance, as needed, to the Program Hub Finance Manager and Hub Management and staffs, on accounting issues.
2. Financial and Accounting Reports
- Provide accurate and timely financial data of Program Hub and APs to FAM on or before 2nd of every month.
- Ensure all Program Hub office level balance sheet accounts are correctly stated and outstanding balances are monitored and supported with detail schedules
- Reconcile World Vision Ethiopia bank accounts at Program Hub office level and compile APs bank reconciliation and send to FAM before 2rd of every month.
- All outstanding bank balances are followed and steal checks are communicated for reversal for APs and Do reversal for Program Hub.
- And ensure those reversals are made before preparation of the next month reconciliation.
3. Financial Risk and Compliance Management
- Participate in annual plan and budget preparation and assist FAMs in review APs cash flows.
- Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the Program Hub office support cost budget.
- Provide regulatory reports, like pension, tax and other applicable reports to Woreda/zonal as needed.
- Follow grant projects at Hub level and charge costs according to their nature and purpose.
- Ensure grant compliance are maintained like LRD and BPS, Provision are undertaken at Hub level
- Collaborate with internal and external auditors for grant and sponsorship audit.
- Comply with World Vision Ethiopia’s accounting policies and procedures, both written and unwritten, and report any instances of non-compliance.
- Provide assistance, as needed, to the FAM, on accounting issues and management issues and do the additional job as instructed by supervisor.
4. Finance Professional ethics and code of conduct
- Ensure the financial and accounting integrity of World Vision Ethiopia.
- Recognize the importance of practicing organization core values Punctuality on working hours and effective use of working hour for organizational business
- Provide objectively verifiable reports to management and stakeholders
- Give priority to customer satisfaction
- Escalate abnormal, fraudulent acts to management without hesitation.
- Ensure confidentially for organization financial information and encounters
Education
- Bachelors Degree in Finance, Business Administration or related field
- Graduate Degree in Financial Analysis or Business Modelling
Knowledge and skills
- Able to motivate staff to achieve core results
- Able to contexualize financial solutions
- Able to work with minimum supervision
- Technical expertise in financial and analytics systems development
- Excellent working knowledge of GAAP
- Innovative solution provider
- Fluency in English and local language
- Able to articulate and communicate ideas well verbally and in writing
- Good interpersonal skills
- Able to work in a cross-cultural environment with a multinational staff
Experience
- Balanced combination of at least four years Business
- Management experience in INGOs and for-profit business
- Experience with financial analysis and reporting requirements
License or certification required
- Certified Public Accountant or equivalent
Applicant Types Accepted:
Local Applicants Only.