Financial Officer

Responsibilities:

Transfers and payments

• Ensure all payments are made in a timely manner, and in accordance with existing JWF policy
• Ensure that payment documents comply with JWF internal financial procedures and donor regulations
• Verify and prepare payments and ensure compliance with JWF policies, as well as following up on payments to suppliers, contractors etc.

 Accounting

• Ensure all financial expenditures are entered into JWF systems in time and of highest quality
• Update cashbooks daily to reflect the actual status of existing cash count and bank balance in all currencies
• Manages books, invoices, income, expenses and funds for the projects in different bookkeeping systems;
• Checks purchase invoices, verifies signatures; and books them.
• Ensure all bank account statements are reconciled monthly
• Ensure proper filing system for financial documents
• Weekly and monthly cash count.

 Budget control, planning, and reporting

• Assist with the implementation of program cost
• Assist in issuing donor reports by reviewing the financial transaction on a monthly basis and identify rebooking when is needed.
• Contribute to the preparation of the periodic financial reports to donors, and monthly financial reports to project managers and director;
• Support the development of new proposals with financial information for budgeting.
• Anything required by the director.
• Monitor the expenditure to ensure that program funds are utilized appropriately by the close of the fiscal year.
• Prepare the needed financial document for the auditor, and for external auditor for each project.