Finance Officer

Purpose The Finance Officer is responsible for Financial Management and Budget Control that includes ensuring bookkeeping is done in a timely and accurate manner and complies with the relevant accounting principles. The Finance Officer is located at the office in Beirut . Objective of the job • The Finance Officer functions as the organizations accountant. In this role the Finance Office is responsible for monitoring the bookkeeping of War Child Lebanon adheres to the international accounting standards. In this role the Finance officer monitors and guides administrative staff and project coordinators on how to keep the books. • Ensures that the financial reports and audits are prepared and submitted to HQ in time • Capacity Building of Accounting staff and supervision of Data Entry Assistant The job demands rigorous and careful attention to routine systems and procedures. Position in organization and Essential functional relations The Finance Officer reports to the Operations Support Manager Roles and Responsibilities Financial Management: • Preparation of the country financial reports. After review and approval by the OSM forwards the reports to finance at Head Office in line with procedures and formats. • Reviewing of monthly field bookkeeping reports (partly delegated) and give feedback to project coordinators on use of codes, prices of goods and monitors balances on advances, and cash disparities etc. •Facilitating preparation of financial reports to donors by assuring that the bookkeeping contains the requested data. • Making overviews of regular payments such as tenancy contracts, licenses, insurances and other regular payments and make sure these are updated/paid in a timely manner. Budget control/monitoring: • Tracking and monitoring of expenditures on different budget lines and cost groups and report findings, such a large deviations, unusual spending, different (booking) procedures are used by the different projects, to the OSM. Supervision and Capacity Building: • Supervise the Data Entry Officer in finance/accounts data entry roles •Contribute to capacity building of all finance/accounting staff with WCH and of partner organizations.   And all other relevant tasks assigned by the OSM. Profile Knowledge  • Minimum a Bachelor’s degree in accountancy; Experience • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in similar positions with an NGO for an EU- or UNICEF/UNHCR funded project is a must (if possible SAGE package);   Skills • Result-oriented, attentive to detail and cost-conscious; • A proactive attitude • Fluency in English and Arabic is a requirement; Other requirements: • Works well in small team, flexible to take on new tasks, comfortable in a flexible working environment; • Lebanese Conditions • Full time job of 40 hours per week, distributed in five days according the needs of the program. • Health insurance • Transportation allowance according to Lebanese Labor law • The staff will follow the Terms and Conditions of employment of War Child Holland Lebanon