Vacancy title:
Financial Specialist

Jobs at:
Rwanda Bio-medical Center

Deadline of this Job:
15th November 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 12th November 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

Job Description

• Under the supervision of the Financial Coordination Specialist, the Financial Specialist will be in charge of the following main duties:
  
• To keep the books for the project in accordance with the Grant Agreement;
  
• To prepare payment documents, carry out the imputations, management and filing of documents related to the IDA/World Bank and GAVI/HSS Grants;
  
• To analyze requests for funds coming from the sub beneficiaries, to prepare their fund transfer documents and collect reliable vouchers for justification before the next fund transfer;
  
• To prepare and monitor cash flow plan for the projects and produce updated reports at the end of every month;
  
• To verify accounting imputations carried out by Accountants of Project’s sub beneficiary institutions;
  
• To regularly supervise and train Accountants from sub beneficiary institutions in financial, accounting, and budgetary management;
  
• To submit monthly financial statements and other reports necessary for the coordination of the Projects;
  
• To draft disbursement requests to be forwarded to IDA/World Bank and GAVI;
  
• In collaboration with Corporate Services Program Manager, draw up an annual budget to be submitted to donors, based on action plans;
  
• To monitor the implementation of the budget;
  
• To issue regular financial positions (ledger, budget implementation report, etc.) for other collaborators (Audit);
  
• To manage the projects fixed assets;
  
• To take part in the stock management exercise of equipment and materials;
  
• To file and conserve documents of accounting transactions ;
  
• To prepare declarations to RRA, withholding taxes, VAT, etc;
  
• To carry out any other tasks as may be assigned by the supervisor.
  

Job Profile

• Be of Rwandan nationality;
  
• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree (A0) in Accounting or Finance or Management;
  
• Possess relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in Accounting and Finance within a reputable public organization, a government project or a private organization highly recognized;
  
• Working experience with development projects and programmes, in particular which funded by the IDA/World Bank is an advantage;
  
• Proven knowledge of the GoR financial management system (IFMIS) is a requirement, knowledge in other financial software (TOMPRO or Sage) shall constitute an advantage;
  
• Be able and willing to spend at least 50% of her/his working time in field for supervision, monitoring and evaluation of the financial management system in funded institutions;
  
• Have a strong oral and written communication skills in Kinyarwanda, English and French;
  
• Computer literate with proficient knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Power Point, and search engines;
  
• Organizational skills/managerial and ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines;
  
• Being ready to start work within 30 days from the notification of employment;
  
• Be of proven moral integrity.