وظيفة: Finance Officer – موظف مالي للعمل مع Mercy Corps
آخر مهلة للتقديم: الأربعاء, 1 مارس 2023
نطاق الراتب: بين 1500 و 2000 (دولار أمريكي)
البلد/المدينة: Lebanon بيروت
(Applications will only be accepted if submitted through the URL link provided below)
About Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps is a leading global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible.
In disaster, in hardship, in more than 40 countries around the world, we partner to put bold solutions
into action — helping people triumph over adversity and build stronger communities from within.
Now, and for the future.
Program / Department Summary
Mercy Corps works in places of transition, where conflict, disaster, political upheaval, or economic collapse present opportunities to build more secure, productive, and just communities. Providing emergency relief in times of crisis, we move quickly to help communities recover and build resilience to future shocks and promote sustainable change by supporting community-led and market-driven initiatives. Recognizing both the great potential and the complex challenges faced by the Middle East, since 1989 Mercy Corps has been implementing a range of humanitarian assistance and development programs tailored to the specific needs of the region and of those communities where we work.
General Position Summary
Finance Officer is a key member of the finance department, and, as such, supports all aspects of financial management, working collaboratively internally with entire finance, program, and operations teams, to ensure compliance with Mercy Corps internal policies and procedures as well as donor regulations. S/he works under the direction of the Finance Coordinator and assist in general accounting, compliance while working collaboratively with all field teams to ensure that financial resources are used efficiently; and a wide range of operational needs of the country program are met.
Safeguarding Responsibilities:
- Actively learns about safeguarding and integrates it into their work including with external stakeholders and direct reports if applicable.
- Practices the values of Mercy Corps as detailed in the Code of Conduct and safeguarding policies including respecting the dignity and well-being of community participants and fellow staff members.
- Holds themselves accountable for making appropriate decisions that impact community members and team members.
- Takes responsibility for their personal and professional behavior.
- Encourages openness, transparency and communication in their team; encourages team members to make any reports if they have any concerns using internal reporting mechanisms (i.e. Integrity Hotline, HR etc.)
- Demonstrates a high level of integrity and treats others with respect.
Essential Job Responsibilities
FUND TRANSFERS:
- Provide close and strong support for all fund transfer activities and for all payments done through money transfer agents, ensure proper supporting documents are in place before submission.
- Ensure the completeness and verification process of all sub grant payments happening through the fund transfer process.
- Ensure the payment trackers or processes charts for fund transfer are properly and meticulously handled.
- Responsible for daily and weekly reconciliations of payment tracker.
- Coordinate payment request/money transfer orders/wire transfer and facilitate the timely release of funds for the program activities as well as a reimbursement to vendors/service providers, etc.
- Ensure all transfer related hard and soft copy of documents are properly maintained/archived.
- Serve as a custodian of archived documents and responsible for producing them on a timely fashion in case of inquiries (audits, investigations, etc.).
- Any other related duties that may be reasonably assigned by the supervisor.
general accounting:
- Review the accurateness of payment requests and completeness of supporting documentations (coding, approval, uploading…).
- Prepare and entry of transactions in the accounting system (Payments, consultancy payments, reconciliations…)
- Provide active support during the month-end accounting close process such as: monthly amortization, account reconciliation, ensuring accuracy and completeness of the ledgers, journal batches before posting.
- Review of all monthly outstanding advances and perform aging analysis and ensure that all outstanding advances are settled cleared on time.
- Assist in intercompany account reconciliation to ensure all outstanding balances are cleared from the country ledger plus any other transit accounts.
- Assist during the audit processes within the location. Proactively Liaising with Program and sub-award units as necessary.
Organizational Learning:
- As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.
Accountability to Beneficiaries:
- Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically
to our beneficiaries and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging beneficiary communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Supervisory Responsibility
N/A
Accountability
Reports Directly To: Finance and Compliance Lead
Works Directly With: Field finance teams; Director of Programs, Program Managers, Sub-Award Director (with authority for technical financial matters) and others.
Knowledge and Experience
- A BA/S or equivalent in accounting or finance required; advanced degree preferred.
- At least 3 years of progressive financial management experience.
- Strong accounting skills and experience, including management of the general ledger, journal entries, payroll, payables, and balance sheet is required.
- Experience with online-based accounting/financial management systems, Navigator experience strongly preferred.
- Experience of working with Informal Money Transfer Agencies and excellent negotiating and communications skills.
- Highly developed time management and prioritization skills and ability to meet multiple deadlines in a high paced, fluid environment.
- High attention to detail and ability to maintain quality work under any circumstance.
- Excellent oral and written English skills, effective verbal and written communication, multi-tasking, organizational and prioritization skills.
- Ability to work effectively with an ethnically diverse team in a sensitive environment.
Success Factors
The successful candidate will have an ability to interact effectively across international and national program and finance teams successfully, both in a managerial as well as training capacity. S/he will be able to support programmatic objectives with timely and meaningful financial information, have a demonstrated ability to multi-task, meet deadlines and process information in support of changing program activities. An impeccable professional standard of finance and procurement ethics and the willingness and ability to enforce compliance with Mercy Corps and donor policies and procedures is essential. The most successful Mercy Corps staff members have a strong commitment to teamwork and accountability, thrive in evolving and changing environments and make effective written and verbal communication a priority in all situations.
Safeguarding & Ethics
Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct eLearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.