Фахівець(чиня) відділу фінансів / Finance Officer

About Us

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 31 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP, our global provider of expertise, helps improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.
Employment with NRC may lead to employment in or deployment to Regions, Countries, Areas or Offices that may be host to considerable health, safety and security risks. NRC takes this very seriously and we have procedures in place to reduce known risks, but will never be able to take away all risks.
NRC is an equal opportunities employer and aims to have staffing diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, nationality and physical ability.

Role and responsibilities

The purpose of the Finance officer position is day-to-day implementation of the support functions responsibilities. 

Generic responsibilities:

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
• Implement delegated financial function portfolio according to plan of action as well as to Financial Handbook and other NRC policies including SOP’s
• Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
• Maintain the filling system for all financial and accounting documents and ensure filing of all financial documents according to NRC standards
• Prepare monthly financial reports and send all relevant documents
• Support project staff in financial and administrative matters
• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
• Contribute to specific protection risks and needs analyses
• Contribute to designing of protection response to identified risks and needs.

Specific responsibilities:

• Verify that vouchers and supporting documents meet NRC standards before payment. Be responsible for payments to suppliers, contract workers and mobilisers.
• Be responsible for disbursement of perdiem to NRC Ukraine employees according to Ukrainian legislation and NRC policies.
• Ensure that all costs are timely booked into Agresso on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Be responsible to write transactions numbers on the vouchers and label financial documents
• Prepare bank accounts reconciliations.
• Collaborate with the financial institutions to ensure that queries related to payments are timely resolved (return payments, under/over payments, suppliers/contractors’ incorrect account details etc)
• Ensure implementing of the routine for securing supporting documentation in a digital format. Follow up to ensure processing of reconciliation of deliverables (Financial part).
• Assist the Finance Coordinator (FC) and the Finance Manager (FM) in internal and external audits and preparing donor reports
• Verification of purchase requisitions (PR) and purchase orders (PO)
• Any other tasks that will be assigned by the FC.

Competencies  

1. Professional competencies

Generic professional competencies:

• Experience from working as a Finance Officer/Accountant in a humanitarian/recovery context
• Professional knowledge of auditing/accounting
• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
• Knowledge of English, both written and verbal

Context/ Specific skills, knowledge and experience:

• Knowledge of the context in the areas NRC operates
• Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian both written and verbal
• Knowledge of legal tax base for the representation office
• Experience from working with local financial institutions and tax authorities
• Experience with start-up of humanitarian/recovery or related programmes is an asset
• Good computer skills in MS Office

2. Behavioral competencies

The following are essential for this position:

• Handling insecure environment
• Planning and delivering results
• Empowering and building trust
• Communicating with impact and respect
• Analyzing
• Working with people

We offer:

• Type of contract: national employment contract by the end of 2022
• Salary/benefits: According to NRC salary scale, terms and conditions.
• Duty station: Dnipro, Ukraine.

To apply for this position please follow the link.

Please note that we will contact only shortlisted candidates.

NRC retains the discretion to cancel the recruitment.

NRC might review applications before advert deadline, therefore interested candidates are encouraged to apply early.