Accountant

The accountant will be responsible for controlling the daily cash/check management, supporting the Country Office staff, overseeing and preparing the projects books in accordance with Dorcas protocols, standards and procedures in order to provide accurate, reliable and updated financial information.

The accountant will be located In Dorcas’ main office in Damascus, Syria, and will operate on a daily basis with the management in the country office, in Dora, Lebanon. S/he may be asked to conduct field visits to projects locations in Syria, also visits to Lebanon if needed.

Main Tasks:

Running the bookkeeping, including:

• Administers and maintains the projects financial system in an accurate and timely manner.
• Manages books, invoices, income, expenses and funds for the projects in different bookkeeping systems;
• Checks purchase invoices, verifies signatures; and books them.
• Contributes to the preparation of the periodic financial reports to donors, and monthly financial reports to project managers and country director;
• Provides financial data for the preparation of trimester financial reports and annual report;
• Answers questions from project managers and director regarding the financial figures of the projects

Monitoring the financial sheets, including:

• Fills the monitoring sheets and hand it to project managers and financial manager on monthly basis.
• Monitors the financial sheets from the partner organisation (in case of subcontracting) by checking the budget and the expenditure documents.
• Check and monitor invoices, receipts and report presented by the partners.
• Maintain a proper statement of account for each partner
• Issues payments for the partner NGO if needed.

• Contributes in providing financial statements
• Preparing the cash flow of the project
• Participating in different tasks and taskforces, including:
• Join special taskforces to be able to innovate and improve the work;
• Available to support projects’ staff members when required.
• Audit other projects financially if requested.

Perform other tasks as requested by the management team of Dorcas/Tabitha