VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Widows and Orphans Empowerment Organisation (WEWE) is a registered reputable national non-governmental organization implementing that provides socio-economic empowerment to orphans, vulnerable children and widows in Nigeria. WEWE is currently implementing a comprehensive USAID-funded Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project called Local Partners Initiative for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Nigeria (LOPIN-2) in partnership with local and international organizations as well as different tiers of the Government of Nigeria at national, state, local and levels and seek to expand it program therefore seeks application from qualified persons for the positions finance Officer to provide effective financial support to WEWE-LOPIN 2 Project ensuring compliance with USAID and WEWE policies and procedures and ensuring financial integrity of the project
Job Title: Finance Officer
Location: The successful candidates will be based in Abuja
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Keeping Account Record: Posting daily transactions into QuickBooks accounting software and filling transactions document in a proper folder.
- Data Entry: To assist the finance team to input data into financial reports; Enter all income and expenditure transactions into the relevant accounting software; work in conjunction with program and administrative staff to ensure transactions are properly coded; Prepare bank reconciliation statements; Monitor cash balances and maintain a good system of record.
- Petty Cash: To serve as petty cash custodian and post petty cash vouchers into QuickBooks; Process petty cash reconciliation on a weekly basis or as required.
- Retirement: Work with WEWE- LOPIN 2 teams to support their time retirement of program and administrative expenses and also improve in their turnaround time of retirement.
- Financial Reports: To assist in scanning and making photocopies of monthly Financial Reports; Review WEWE LOPIN 2 Implementing Agents’ Financial Report Retirements to ensure proper documentation; File financial documents.
- Salary Records: To assist in tracking staff leave and medical allowance using Microsoft Excel; Collate and review timesheets in preparation of payroll; Prepare salary schedule, payroll and pay slips.
- Taxes: To assist in computing staff taxes and process Tax Clearance Certificates; Follow up with tax authority to collect receipts and documentations of tax remitted.
- Procurement: To assist in collating quotes from vendors and service providers; Organise Procurement Committee meetings; Prepare Justification Memo for approval of the selected vendors; Obtain payment invoice from selected vendors; Prepare supporting documents for payment.
- Travel: To assist in receiving and processing Travel Authorization Form (TAF) & Travel Expenses Statement (TES) submitted by staff; Review local expense reports for compliance with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and WEWE travel policies before signing off for approval.
- Strengthening WEWE control environment: To assist the finance team to strengthen its finance control environment. To significantly contribute to identifying all WEWE internal control environments and making suggestions and coming up with ideas on how to design control mechanism to strengthen these controls and work with the finance team to operate and put these measures in place.
Qualification:
- A minimum of HND or B.Sc. in Accounting with a second class upper division is preferred.
- A minimum of (1 – 2) year experience in Accounting
- Ability to use Quick book accounting software
- Strong computer skills
- Experience working on USAID/PEPFAR funded vulnerable children programs
- Ability to develop budgets for USAID funded projects
Salary Range:
- Please kindly note that the finance Officer will be given a monthly basic salary of NGN 50, 000 – 100,000 (Fifty Thousand naira- One Hundred Thousand Naira Only)
Method of Application
Applicants should send their comprehensive Curriculum and cover letter in ONLY one attachment (MS Word document) explaining suitability for the job to: finance@weweng.org Please indicate the title of position applied for in the subject line of the email. Applicants are advised to provide their functional emails/mobile phone numbers on the application letter as well as three professional referees. Candidates must provide functional email addresses and telephone numbers of referees.
Kindly Note: WEWE’s recruitment process for these positions will be on a rolling basis and while we thank all applicants for showing interest, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview. Applications will be reviewed in batches on a first come first served basis. WEWE reserve the right to conclude this recruitment process when a suitable candidate is selected.
