Finance Officer

Job responsibilities / skills

The Finance Officer ensures that accounting processes and systems are running effectively and efficiently to enable programme staff and other stakeholders to implement the War Child Programme in Lebanon.
 
S/he is also responsible for the compliance with external donor financial and administrative requirements.
 
 
Result areas
 
Handling finances
 

Enters accounting information into bookkeeping (UNIT 4 ), and cross check accurateness and completeness before submitting in a timely manner;
Handles petty cash;
Checks receipts and eligibility;
Prepares Checks and transfers;
Follows up closely on monthly cash and cheque advances;
Ensures that all bookkeeping/financial documents of partners and War Child are compiled and organized according to international auditing standards;
Builds the capacity of partners and staff;
Holds monthly meetings with project admin officers or budget holders to check monthly expenditure allocations;
Prepares monthly financial budget updates to be shared with budget holders;
Checks and verifies that all payments are done in accordance with WCH Financial & procurement rules and regulations;
Prepares monthly financial reports to HO and submits them;
Monitors bank accounts and prepares monthly bank and cash reconciliations;

 
Result: Finances are handled in such matter that all financial documents are done according to international auditing standards
 
 

 
Handling Administration  
 

Develops and maintains a filing system of partners;
Keeps track and monitors advances of office and project advances;
Performs administrative tasks (photocopies, buying stationeries, scanning/faxing documents);
In the absence of the Manager provides support to the WCH team and partners;
Takes on any other relevant tasks to the area of responsibility as requested by the Finance Manager;
Checks financial reports from partners and prepares reports to Head Office;
Assists during Audits and follows up on findings;
Any other task appointed by the line manager;

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