Full Time

Adama, Addis Ababa, Arba Minch, Gambela, Oromia, Somali, Tigray
Posted 6 months ago

Website Ethiopian Red Cross

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The following open positions are listed below, with more information about each one provided by the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS).

Regarding the Red Cross Society of Ethiopia

One of Ethiopia’s oldest and biggest humanitarian organizations, the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) was founded in 1935. In addition to other humanitarian services, ERCS offers emergency response, ambulance and first aid, family reunification, essential medications, water and sanitation, and other services to communities impacted by man-made and natural disasters. Additionally, ERCS offers disaster risk reduction initiatives to build resilient families and communities. The ERCS currently has 12 Regional Offices, 34 Zonal Branches, 131 District/Woreda Branches, 599 Woreda Red Cross Committees, and 5871 Kebele Red Cross Committees as part of its organizational structure.

To build resilient households and communities, ERCS also manages disaster risk reduction initiatives, including food security, livelihood diversification, climate change adaptation, and institutional capacity-building interventions. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Ethiopian government, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC), collaborating National Societies, volunteers, members, and the communities we serve are all partners in ERCS’s work.

Important areas of performance

Coordinates the activities of recording, analyzing, and preparing financial statements for projects and core costs in compliance with the established policies and procedures of the Society;
Creates the proper code classification for each transaction to be recorded; examines transaction records and posts the results; Assembles your financial statements.

Assures that the National Secretariat’s financial reports, as well as the branch’s, are accurately tracked, recorded, and combined; this includes making sure that the cash flow statement, balance sheet, statement of income and expenditure account, and other financial statements are issued on time and in a correct manner.
Monitors the assessment and examination of monthly trial balances, quarterly income and expense account statements, and any other financial data, as well as the supply of appropriate data for managerial decision-making;
closely monitors the timely collection of receivables and payment of payables and ensures that all receivables and payables are fully cleared at the end of each quarter and no balance is carried forward;

• verifies the equality of debit and credit totals (trial balance) of the general ledger account balances.
Examines and verifies the accuracy of each register, as well as the totals in each register for posting to the general ledger; creates financial reports and statements on a periodic and end-of-period basis based on general ledger and subsidiary accounts;
Maintains books of accounts, journals, ledgers, and supporting documents by standard procedures and the accounting manual;

• Creates an appropriate classification of codes and posts of all pertinent transaction documents on the various control and subsidiary ledger accounts;
• Extracts account balances from the general ledger and prepares a schedule of accounts upon request from management or to finish the accounting cycle;
Confirms that bookkeeping closures and audits are completed on schedule; confirms the accuracy of the bank reconciliation and the statement of accounts for the accounts payable and receivable; confirms that the financial transactions are entered in a manner consistent with the Society’s accounting system;

Verifies that financial records, ledgers, journal vouchers, and supporting documentation are kept up to date and arranged in compliance with the Society’s accounting system;
Ensures that all disbursement and receivables transactions are promptly journalized and posted into the appropriate ledgers;
Ensure that no unpaid balances of payables and receivables are carried over to the following period and that all accounts are cleared every quarter; make certain that the accounting records of the Society are arranged correctly;

Verifies that account records are kept up to date using the correct code classification by the Society’s accounting procedure; Check to make sure the deductions from the employee’s pay were calculated accurately.
Offers branch offices expert support for carrying out accounting tasks; monitors the branches’ financial reports;

By agreements made with funding agencies and relevant financial policies and procedures of the Society, facilitates and monitors the preparation and dissemination of project financial reports;

Verifies that the Society’s project accounts and books of core costs are closed on schedule; monitors and enables the prompt delivery of branch reports; arranges and sets up financial records for both internal and external auditors to review;
Conducts relevant research on how to improve the work unit’s daily operations;
• Ensures that financial documents, ledgers, journal vouchers, and supporting documents are maintained and organized in compliance with the Society’s accounting system; creates and submits reports on the work unit’s performance on a monthly, quarterly, biannual, and annual basis; Ensure that at year’s end, there are no unpaid receivables or payables.

Account Manager is the person to whom the Accounts Division reports.

Conditions of employment: One-year contract

Workplace Prerequisites

Qualification Standards

Six to eight years of relevant work experience, with two of those years spent in senior positions;
• A second or first degree in accounting, accounting, or finance;