Aug 17, 2018
Location Kebbi Application Link
Sokoto Application Link
Reports to Finance Manager Duration: 5 years Project Overview and Role
Palladium seeks a Finance Assistant for the five-year, USAID-funded Nigeria Integrated Health Program, an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems
It will focus its support for service delivery in six intervention areas: family planning, malaria, routine immunization, nutrition, maternal/newborn health, and treatment of childhood pneumonia/diarrhea. It has a strong emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and learning.
This program will work closely with state-level government officials to support established state-level Health and Development Plans, build capacity, and promote ownership of interventions, systems, and results
Specific interventions will need to be tailored to local contexts and will be fully developed at state and Local Government Area (LGA) levels. Through agreements with individual states, its potential breadth is the entire country with an emphasis on the north.
Description
The Finance Assistant is a full-time position to support the Finance Manager in the awarded USAID/Nigeria funded project entitled Nigeria Integrated Health Program.
Responsibilities
Regularly maintain and update financial records including checking, verifying, and recording the project’s financial transactions
Check, process and record all the payments, administer invoices and expenses claims received, and code items to approved budgets
Support the Financial Analyst with the cash transfer requests
Maintain finance tracking systems for advances, Level of Effort (LOE), Work Orders, charge codes etc.,
Filing, scanning, duplicating, and shipping of field vouchers to the US Office every month
Support with procurement and purchasing and other contractual requirements
Collected and record the employees’ time sheet for project office file (bi-weekly)
Support the State Finance Office to manage the project’s assets and ensure accurate Assets Register maintained
Other duties as assigned
Candidate Requirements
University graduate in Financial Management, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics or other relevant field.
At 0-3 years of professional work experience
Able to communicate effectively and excellent interpersonal skills to form effective working relationships at all levels;
High level of computer literacy;
Ability to deal appropriately with sensitive issues and maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times;
Cross-functional team player;
Results oriented and attention to detail;
Proven experience in managing expenditures within budget.
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