Grant Accountant

Good Neighbors Ethiopia (GNE) is one of the field branches of Good Neighbors International. GNE was founded in 1997 in the spirit to provide self-reliance for neighbors suffering from poverty and discrimination through sustainable development beyond aid. GNE strives to improve lives of the needy segment of society in Ethiopia, especially children’s lives, through education, health, water and sanitation, partnership, and income generation activities since its establishment in 1997.

• Position: Grant Accountant
• Responsible To: Finance Manager
• Term of Employment: Contract
• Duty Station(s): Addis Ababa (MOFA) Japan funded Project

Overview of the Position

The main responsibilities of the grant accountant is monitors the financial progress of projects, investigates variances, check expenses, and ensures that project billings are issued to customers and payments collected. They may also assist with the development of the financial aspects of the project planning and reporting.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure that payment of taxes and other government obligations are completed on time;
• Maintain formats and other necessarily documents and reports in relation to assignments;
• Ensure day to day accounting activities in respect of policies and procedures, state financial legal requirements and donor/organization guidelines are kept accordingly.
• Responsible for cash movements, journal entries and for daily cash reconciliations;
• Responsible for voucher system and its management in accordance to the internal procedures;
• Preparation of the monthly cash analysis and report discrepancies of settlement on time.
• Maintain contacts with local banks, assist in bank account reconciliations;
• Categorize payments clearly and precisely under the appropriate expenditure codes of respective projects;
• Ensure that purchase related expenses are supported with all the necessary financial documents as per procurement procedures and documented properly.
• Prepare vouchers, cheques, CPOs, transfer letters as per the request.
• Ensure the respect of GNE Code of Conduct and GNE’s zero tolerance policy of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA), humanitarian principles and contribute to the integration of Protection and Age, Gender, Diversity (AGD) mainstreaming into GNE programming.
• Submit monthly financial settlement finding report.
• Perform other duties related to the position assigned by line department.

Job Requirement

Education and Experience

• BA Degree in accounting, accounting and finance or related field;

A minimum 3 years’ experience working in humanitarian context. Particularly finance and auditing area