Finance Technical Assistant at Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

Responsibilities

Generic responsibilities 

• Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines



• Implement delegated support function portfolio according to plan of action



• Ensure proper filing of documents both in hard and soft



• Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function

Specific responsibilities

• Ensure that cash are kept properly, payment process and other financial processes take place in adherence to Financial Handbook, other NRC policies and donor and the authorities requirements



• Make sure that daily cash counts are maintained.



• Make sure posting of transactions are done on daily basis.



• Make sure payments are processed on time



• Be responsible for bank transactions in line with NRC policy and procedures;



• Posting of income and cost into bank cash boxes i.e. USD and NGN daily basis.



• Be the focal person between Area Office and Field office in regard to funds transfer requests and other payments through bank.



• Ensure timely clearance of field office cash box.



• Be responsible for release of payment to contractors & other payments as stipulated in the contract/agreement(s) & in line with NRC policies and procedures.



• Ensure control for the prevention of waste, fraud and mismanagement before processing the payments.



• Keep good control of the Field offices, banks details and assist them with tools in use by NRC.



• Responsible for keeping of cash in office



• Responsible for scanning and archiving finance documentation as per SSDi guidelines for the Field Office on a weekly and monthly basis.

Qualifications

Generic professional competencies

• Experience from working as a Support Function Officer in a humanitarian/recovery cont



• Previous experience from working in complex and volatile contexts.



• Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities.



• Some knowledge of English

Behavioural competencies

• Handling insecure environment



• Planning and delivering results



• Empowering and building trust



• Communicating with impact and respect