Finance Assistant at Plan International

Plan International

Position: Finance Assistant

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Contract

Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Ababa Abeba - Ethiopia

Posted date: 8 months ago

Deadline: Submition date is over

The Organisation

Plan International is an independent development and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.

We believe in the power and potential of every child. But this is often suppressed by poverty, violence, exclusion and discrimination. And it’s girls who are most affected.

Working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners, we strive for a just world, tackling the root causes of the challenges facing girls and all vulnerable children.

We support children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. And we enable children to prepare for – and respond to – crises and adversity. We drive changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

We have been building powerful partnerships for children for over 85 years, and are now active in more than 80 countries.

The Opportunity

The purpose of the position is to ensure that all financial transactions of the WAA Activities will be captured in the system before the SAP closing in each month; and to facilitate training and workshop payments to the participants. Accordingly, the position holder is responsible for coordinating and facilitating all WWA training and workshop payments in line with the donor and PIE compliance policy. The finance assistant is closely working with the WWA finance and operations lead and the program area finance department. He/she works with trustworthiness and integrity and has a clear commitment to the Plan’s core values and humanitarian principles. In addition, the finance assistant will support the USAID WWA Adama IP team in handling GRN for the goods, materials, equipment and services procured at the Adama and Addis Abeba levels to smoothly facilitate issue and receiving notes and closely work with the program area supply chain team to ensure integration and teamwork across the function.

The Individual

Qualifications/Experience Essential:

• A minimum of BA degree in Accounting/Business Management & related fields.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
• Ability to initiate and organize work while establishing priorities in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment to meet deadlines with attention to detail;
• Ability to develop strong trusting relationships in order to gain support and achieve results;
• Ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities;
• Ability to be flexible and interpersonal skills to interact with employees at all levels;
• Strong office and organizational skills.
• Ability to travel as required;
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
• Experience working on USAID-funded activity

Qualifications/Experience Desirable:

• Strong negotiating skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Able to work with minimum supervision
• Additional working experience from an international humanitarian and development organizations is a plus

Languages Required

• Fluency in the English language is essential
• Knowledge and all skills (Writing, reading, Listening & Speaking) of local languages (Afan Oromo and Amharic) is a desirable

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Safeguarding Children and Young People (Safeguarding) and Gender Equality and Inclusion (GEI)

• Understand and put into practice the responsibilities under Safeguarding and GEI policies and Plan International’s Code of Conduct (CoC).
• Ensure that Plan International’s global policies for Safeguarding Children and Young People and Gender Equality and Inclusion are fully embedded in day-to-day work.
• Ensure that Plan Ethiopia contributes to Plan International’s global efforts to ensure safeguarding and GEI, including making sure that relevant reporting and data are submitted.

Location: Addis Ababa

Type of Role: WWA Project

Reports to: Finance and Operation Lead - WWA Project

Grade: B2