Background

A Sector Accountant Officer manages local, decentralized financial operations, including budgeting, bookkeeping, and cash management, while ensuring compliance with Rwandan public financial management laws (PFMA) and RRA regulations. They are responsible for processing payroll, handling petty cash, and preparing financial reports for the sector level.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Management: Handling daily transactions, cash/bank management, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.

Budgeting & Reporting: Preparing sector budgets, forecasting, and compiling financial statements.

Tax Compliance: Managing tax declarations and payments, particularly ensuring adherence to RRA requirements.

Bookkeeping: Maintaining accurate, up-to-date accounting records.

Reconciliation: Reconciling bank accounts and ensuring accurate financial records.

Asset Management: Managing the fixed assets register.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management
• 0 Year of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• 0 Year of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• 0 Year of relevant experience
• BBA WITH HON IN FINANCE
• 0 Year of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management or Management specializing in Finance or Accounting
• 0 Year of relevant experience

Required competencies and key technical skills

• Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality
• Confidentiality, ethical and teamwork skills;
• High integrity and professional ethical standards
• Ability to work under minimal supervision

Languages

• English

Psychometric Domains

• Assertiveness
• Communication skills

• Handling daily transactions, cash/bank management, and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.
• Preparing sector budgets, forecasting, and compiling financial statements.
• Managing tax declarations and payments, particularly ensuring adherence to RRA requirements.
• Maintaining accurate, up-to-date accounting records.
• Reconciling bank accounts and ensuring accurate financial records.
• Managing the fixed assets register.

• Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality
• Confidentiality, ethical and teamwork skills;
• High integrity and professional ethical standards
• Ability to work under minimal supervision
• Assertiveness
• Communication skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Management
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• BBA WITH HON IN FINANCE
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management or Management specializing in Finance or Accounting